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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

Raising Women’s Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa

Deborah Walter (ed.)

Johannesburg: People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA);Community Media for Development (CMFD) (2012), 12 pp.

"This case study is being produced to share the process, techniques, and lessons learned from "Zaphamban' izindlela!" radio drama both as way to document, as well as facilitate others working on women’s issues to undertake similar initiatives. The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of ... more

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Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), ix, 344 pp.

"Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring ... more

The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.

"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more

Reporting on Children: Is the Coverage Getting Any Better?

Ayabulela Poro, Sandra Banjac

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa;Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), 27 pp.

Something to be Glad About? Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media

Musa Oswald Rikhotso, Sandra Roberts

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa;Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), viii, 46 pp.

Lack of Diversity (repeat): Analysis of SABC News and Programming

Lethabo Thebe Dibetso, Thandi Smith

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2012), vii, 41 pp.

Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.

"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more

Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication

Bella Mody

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58

"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have ... more

Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa

Lebo Ramafoko, Gavin Andersson, Renay Weiner

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162

"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a ... more

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Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film

Adam Haupt

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2012), xvi, 240 pp.

"Static: Race and Representation in Post-apartheid Music, Media and Film critically examines music, cinema, social media and the politics of change after apartheid. It cuts across academic disciplines, the creative arts and the media and poses two central questions: Is South Africa changing for the ... more

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South African Cinema 1896-2010

Martin Botha

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2012), 307 pp.

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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)

Auckland Park: Jacana Media;University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.

"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more

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Community Radio and Cultural Citizenship: Reflections on Radio Islam and Democratic Citizenship in South Africa

Last Moyo

In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century

Janey Gordon (ed.)

Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 303-320

"This chapter examines how community radio in post-apartheid South Africa is playing an important role in the cultural citizenship of ethnic minorities. Using the case study of Radio Islam, a community radio station located in Johannesburg in South Africa, it explores how the radio station provides ... more

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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 1

Justine Limpitlaw

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2012), xxxvi, 395 pp.

"In this e-book we unpack the internationally-developed standards and best practise models of democratic media regulation. We look at universally-agreed norms for democratic media regulation generally, democratic broadcasting regulation and for imposing restrictions upon or otherwise regulating medi ... more

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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more

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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Andrew Edward Van der Vlies (ed.)

Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press (2012), 476 pp.

"This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as ... more

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Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller (eds.)

London: Reaktion Books (2012), 319 pp.

"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ... more

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