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List of African Media Barometer indicators
Africa, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Civil SocietyThis publication contains a full list of the indicators useful for an assessment of the media situation in a given country. The 45 indicators are developed on the basis on discussion and scoring process from the following declarations, protocols and principles, all defined on African ground. The Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa of the African Commission on Human...
Research guide: Public Broadcasting in Africa
Africa, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Civil SocietyResearch guide for AfriMAP's multi-country survey of the state of public broadcasting in Africa. This reserach guide rests on the assumption that development and democracy cannot thrive without open and free public space where all issues concerning people’s lives can be aired and debated and which gives them room and opportunity to participate in the process of decision making. Democracy, in...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes About Democracy
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Media, Academic/Think TankThe success of a democracy depends, in part, on public demand for democratic institutions. How does Internet use shape citizens' preferences for regime type? Combining individual public opinion data from Africa and Asia with country-level indices, we test a multilevel model examining the relationship between Internet penetration, individual Internet use, and citizen demand for...
World Press Freedom Index 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Civil SocietyThe World Press Freedom Index 2010 scores countries on levels of press freedom and the working conditions of journalists. It finds that Europe, which has traditionally been ranked high in the index, has slipped. Thirteen of the EU’s 27 members are in the top 20 but some of the other 14 are very low in the ranking. Italy is 49th, Romania is 52nd and Greece and Bulgaria are tied at...
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or...
An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers of development and community radio stations. The study found that community radios are...
Attacks on the Press 2009: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) provides statistics and analysis on media freedom around the world and to which extent journalists are killed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed while doing their job. It also provides country specific summaries on media freedom. The report also tries to tackle the shifting role of the media and traditional (print)...
Making the news: why the African Peer Review Mechanism didn’t
Africa, Democracy, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThe African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has not generated a national conversation in South Africa. This paper investigates the reasons for this failure of the APRM. Among the reasons, the author argues, is the failure of the citizens to seize the opportunity as also the media’s neglect of the APRM. The peer review process was intended to involve millions of...
Economic freedom and economic performance: evidence from ECOWAS countries using panel data analysis
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Media, Academic/Think TankThe paper used the Heritage Foundation measure of economic freedom (the aggregate and the component indices) and analyzed its impact on economy-wide as well as sectoral economic performance using panel data and mixed-fixed random effects models estimation approach. The results suggest that: · economic freedom negatively affected...
Public Broadcast Services in Africa Series - South Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAccording to the report, access to South Africa’s wide range of media is unevenly divided. Remote rural areas still do not have access to media. An average newspaper is more expensive than a loaf of bread; more than two thirds of households do not have a functioning television set, whilst 85 percent of households do not have a computer, and 93 percent do not have access...