The reliance on untrained reporters with limited or no understanding of journalistic
standards has become increasingly widespread particularly in less democratic …

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford aims to serve as
the leading international forum for a productive engagement between scholars from a wide …

Most of what is considered post-truth politics refers to known features of politics and political
propaganda. These are old phenomena boosted by technology, and in particular by social …

Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social
contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and …

Research on the role of communication technology in repression and collective action
focuses largely on social movements in the West or the Arab Spring. Much less work has …

This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal
and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it. The relentless growth …

Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss
annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but …

The need for context is so obvious in everyday life that we could ask why is it so often
overlooked in political communication comparative research? The fact that political …

The purpose of this chapter is to give an account of populism in Africa analysing extant
literature and looking at four specific cases, who were selected considering their varying …