Media News from Africa
Global Media News for February 7, 2013
Global Media News is a weekly webcast covering media news from around the world. This webcast is a production of Media Studies students from the SUNY College @ Old Westbury.
This is our second webcast of the spring season and our second webcast on media news from Africa. Last week we covered North Africa and this week we feature stories from south of the Sahara.
This week on Global Media News: "Media Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa"
- The Politics of South African Media: ANC censorship of advertising
- How YouTube Videos Made the South African Miner's Strike Big News
- Social Media in South Africa: Can Facebook catch a thief?
- Cell Phones in Kenya
- Ushahidi: Live-Mapping Kenyan Electoral Violence
- Social Media's Role in the Upcoming Kenyan Elections
- TV in Botswana: Self-regulation or state control?
- Press Freedom in Zambia & Ethiopia
Next week on GMN: Media News from Western Europe and the U.K.
Listen to our webcast streaming live next Thursday @ 11am EST.
Can't listen live? Our next webcast of the season will be posted by 2:00pm, Thursday, February 14, 2013.