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The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
Top Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 271 pp.
"For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels. The report proposes strategic recomme
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The State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa 2019-2020
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 79 pp.
Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse
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State of Internet Freedom in Botswana 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 17 pp.
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.
"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on
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Social Media and Elections in Africa. Vol. 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 237 pp.
"This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa. Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages with the main drives behind the variou
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Botswana
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) (2019), vi, 64 pp.
"The results of the study indicate that copyright industries make a significant contribution to the national economy of Botswana. In 2016, these industries contributed 5.46 per cent to value added and 2.66 per cent to the total labor force; meanwhile, in foreign trade they contributed 1.28 per cent
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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
Top Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxv, 396 pp.
"The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governanc
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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.
The Emergence of Prophetic Ministries in Botswana: Self-Positioning and Appropriation of New Media
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2018), pp. 369-385
"In the past two decades or so, Botswana has witnessed a spectacular growth of prophetic Christianity and experienced a media revolution through the emerging use of new media. While studies have generally focused on either the growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity or the new media revolutio
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Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 99 pp.
"This exploratory study [.] argues that in a continent where traditional media organizations are increasingly failing to hold power to account, not-for-profit organizations are leading by example, setting the agenda and constantly scrutinizing those in power. This study further looks at the motivati
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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2018
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 61 pp.
Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi
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News in Botswana: Themes in Contemporary Journalism
SMC Online Publishers (2018), 228 pp.
"This book is about news and journalism in Botswana, which is an underresearched topic. It is aimed at students of journalism or media studies but is also useful to media practitioners interested in learning about the environment in which they work. The idea for the book came to me after I left the
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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
Top Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.
Journalists in Botswana
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"The top six roles, all with means above 4.5 and standard deviations below 1, for Botswana journalists, were a mix of those aligned with a liberal press (e.g., report things as they are) and those relevant to development journalism (e.g., support national development). “Report things as they are
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Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas and Visions: Radio Botswana and the Making of a National Radio Station
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 55-73
"Botswana’s government as one of the celebrated postcolonial democracies in Southern Africa continues to have the state owning and controlling the media – in particular, broadcast media. The history of government-owned and controlled media in Botswana can be understood through colonial lenses
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Batswana Support Press Freedom and Critical Speech
Afrobarometer (2015), 5 pp.
"Batswana overwhelmingly express support for media and individual freedoms. This suggests that freedom of expression – both personal and collective – is regarded by the Batswana as an essential attribute of a functioning democracy. Despite recent government attempts to suppress the media and ind
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Media Control, Colonialism and the Making of an Authoritarian Postcolonial African State: The Case of Botswana
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 45-58
"Observing the emergence of public service broadcasting on the eve of colonialism in Botswana (early 60s to early 2000s), the central thesis of the article is that the roots of control of the media in contemporary Botswana can be traced to British anxieties about the possibility of a nationalist rev
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In Service of Two Masters: A Political History of Radio in Pre-Independence Botswana
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 28, issue 6 (2014), pp. 958-976
"This study identifies and critically analyses the major imperial (global and regional) political and economic factors and decisions that influenced and shaped the development of pre-independence radio broadcasting in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. With little or no consideration of the needs of the
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