Marie-Soleil Frère
Biographic Data
| ID | 347337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie-Soleil Frère |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie-Soleil |
| FAMILY NAME | Frère |
| SIGNATURE | FRERE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
Democratic Transitions and the Emergence of Pluralist Media
Journalismes d'Afrique
L'ouvrage se penche sur les 150 annees d'histoire des medias africains et identifie ses acteurs principaux, avec un examen particulier de leur fonctionnement dans le contexte de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Avec de nombreux exemples et etudes de cas.Les standards et pratiques en matiere de medias ne sont pas universels. Au sein meme du continent africain, le journalisme est pluriel et contraste, dependant du contexte linguistique et des situations lo…
Post-Coloniality and Path Dependency: Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa
Journalisme et risques. Introduction
Journalisme et risques. Introduction 
Jornalismo e riscos. Introducao
Jornalismo e riscos. Introdução
I wish I could be the journalist I was, but I currently cannot’: Experiencing the impossibility of journalism in Burundi
In Burundi, a small landlocked post-conflict country in Central Africa, the independent broadcasting sector was severely undermined in May 2015, following a coup attempt against the regime of President Pierre Nkurunziza. More than 80 journalists, some of them accused of being accomplices to the putschists, were threatened and forced to leave the country. Their outlets were damaged and forbidden to operate. Shown as a model of ‘professionalism’, ‘…
Navigating the complexities of media roles in conflict: The Infocore approach
The article draws on the first findings of the INFOCORE project to better understand the ways in which different types of media matter to the emergence, escalation or, conversely, the pacification and prevention of violence. The authors make the case for combining an interactionist approach of media influence, which is centred on the effects of evidential claims, frames and agendas made by various actors over time, with greater sensitivity for th…
Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security
Silencing the voice of the voiceless: The destruction of the independent broadcasting sector in Burundi
SCOPUS: re.j
Radio France Internationale” and “Deutsche Welle” in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change
For decades international radio broadcasters on the African continent were considered the tools of Western imperialism, ideological weapons in the Cold War. Yet international broadcasters also provided a crucial, alternative supply of information in times of state monopoly of the media and when there was a lack of freedom of expression. Over the past 20 years, the media have become more open and numerous in the countries of French-speaking Africa…
Les médias, « chiens de garde » des élections au Burundi et en RDC: Une critique de l’assistance internationale aux médias
Lors des élections générales qui se sont déroulées au Burundi en 2010 et en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) en 2011, de nombreux projets ont été initiés par des bailleurs de fonds et opérateurs internationaux, afin de permettre aux médias de mieux remplir leurs missions. Cet article s’interroge sur les modalités de cet appui aux acteurs du secteur médiatique, en confrontant les objectifs visés par les partenaires étrangers et les réalités …
Conclusions
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Francophone Africa: The rise of ‘pluralist authoritarian’ media systems
SCOPUS: ar.j
Briefing: Burkina Faso--the Fall of Blaise Compaore
under the sustained assault of a coalition of youth, cultural leaders, civil society organizations and opposition parties, and after the defection of core segments of his military. Compaor had been in power since the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara on 15 October 1987. This briefing first discusses the actual sequence of events that led to the transition. We then identify some deeper trends that weakened the regime, including the d…
Journalist in Africa: A high-risk profession under threat
Every year, several international organizations monitoring press freedom worldwide issue reports in which they underline the occupational hazards faced by journalists while reporting. Some African countries, such as Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia or Equatorial Guinea, have been regularly pinpointed at the bottom of these annual rankings. A few others (Cap Vert, Namibia, Niger, Ghana, South Africa) are crawling among the top 50 countries in the world. Ho…
Journalistic identity and audience perceptions: Paradigm and models under construction in the African Great Lakes region
This article is based on a research conducted in three African countries (Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), focusing on the recent evolution of the journalistic profession and the way journalists are perceived today and represented by members of the audience polled in five localities of the region. In the last twenty years, journalism has been deeply transformed, following the liberalization of the media sector, on one ha…
Perspectives on the media in ‘another Africa’
A dual journal project was launched in 2010 to build bridges between French and English media research spheres through the translation and reciprocal publication of a series of essays from each linguistic sphere. In 2012, a special issue of Afrique contemporaine ('Les Afriques médiatiques') was published, with six essays in French by authors working on media from the English-language zone. The present issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Stud…
Media regulation in sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and stakes in French-speaking countries
After independence since the 1960s, the legacies and traditions in the field of media policy led African countries from the three distinct European linguistic spheres (French, English and Portuguese) to draw on the institutional models in use by the former colonial powers. Media policy is a fundamental issue for democratic consolidation, and one that has received different responses in the French - and English-speaking African public spheres. Thi…
Les Afriques médiatiques: Introduction thématique
SCOPUS: ar.j
Elections And The Media In Post- Conflict Africa: Votes And Voices For Peace
Over the past ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Rwanda all organized pluralist elections in a post conflict context, having experienced an armed conflict which either interrupted or prevented democratization processes. These polls were organized with the support of the international community, which viewed them as a crucial step in the peace-building process. The local medi…
Covering Post-Conflict Elections: Challenges for the Media in Central Africa
In the past ten years, elections were held in six countries of Central Africa experiencing “post-conflict” situations. The polls that took place in Burundi (2005), the Central African Republic (2005), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Congo-Brazzaville (2002, 2007), Chad (1996, 2001, 2006) and Rwanda (2003) were crucial for peace-building. In some cases, they were widely supported and supervised by the international community, being co…
After the hate media: Regulation in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
During the past 15 years Central Africa, and specifically Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been through devastating wars in which the media became actors. In 1993, some Burundese newspapers were described as ‘hate media’ and one year later Radio télévision mille collines (RTLM) in Rwanda became the first of those described as ‘death media’, preparing minds for genocide and helping in its implementation. In the Democratic…
The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Briefing: Burkina Faso--the Fall of Blaise Compaore
under the sustained assault of a coalition of youth, cultural leaders, civil society organizations and opposition parties, and after the defection of core segments of his military. Compaor had been in power since the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara on 15 October 1987. This briefing first discusses the actual sequence of events that led to the transition. We then identify some deeper trends that weakened the regime, including the d…
I wish I could be the journalist I was, but I currently cannot’: Experiencing the impossibility of journalism in Burundi
In Burundi, a small landlocked post-conflict country in Central Africa, the independent broadcasting sector was severely undermined in May 2015, following a coup attempt against the regime of President Pierre Nkurunziza. More than 80 journalists, some of them accused of being accomplices to the putschists, were threatened and forced to leave the country. Their outlets were damaged and forbidden to operate. Shown as a model of ‘professionalism’, ‘…
Navigating the complexities of media roles in conflict: The Infocore approach
The article draws on the first findings of the INFOCORE project to better understand the ways in which different types of media matter to the emergence, escalation or, conversely, the pacification and prevention of violence. The authors make the case for combining an interactionist approach of media influence, which is centred on the effects of evidential claims, frames and agendas made by various actors over time, with greater sensitivity for th…
Silencing the voice of the voiceless: The destruction of the independent broadcasting sector in Burundi
SCOPUS: re.j
Francophone Africa: The rise of ‘pluralist authoritarian’ media systems
SCOPUS: ar.j
After the hate media: Regulation in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
During the past 15 years Central Africa, and specifically Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been through devastating wars in which the media became actors. In 1993, some Burundese newspapers were described as ‘hate media’ and one year later Radio télévision mille collines (RTLM) in Rwanda became the first of those described as ‘death media’, preparing minds for genocide and helping in its implementation. In the Democratic…
Démocratie au Bénin et au Niger
The democratic renewal in Africa at the beginning of the 1990' s is marked by events which are at the same time social, political and linguistic. It is around the word « democracy », its semantic network and linguistic pluralism that the press in Benin and Niger have structured the debate on the future of African society at the time of transitional phases experienced as the public speech
Radio France Internationale” and “Deutsche Welle” in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change
For decades international radio broadcasters on the African continent were considered the tools of Western imperialism, ideological weapons in the Cold War. Yet international broadcasters also provided a crucial, alternative supply of information in times of state monopoly of the media and when there was a lack of freedom of expression. Over the past 20 years, the media have become more open and numerous in the countries of French-speaking Africa…
Perspectives on the media in ‘another Africa’
A dual journal project was launched in 2010 to build bridges between French and English media research spheres through the translation and reciprocal publication of a series of essays from each linguistic sphere. In 2012, a special issue of Afrique contemporaine ('Les Afriques médiatiques') was published, with six essays in French by authors working on media from the English-language zone. The present issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Stud…
Journalistic identity and audience perceptions: Paradigm and models under construction in the African Great Lakes region
This article is based on a research conducted in three African countries (Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), focusing on the recent evolution of the journalistic profession and the way journalists are perceived today and represented by members of the audience polled in five localities of the region. In the last twenty years, journalism has been deeply transformed, following the liberalization of the media sector, on one ha…
Les Afriques médiatiques: Introduction thématique
SCOPUS: ar.j
Media regulation in sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and stakes in French-speaking countries
After independence since the 1960s, the legacies and traditions in the field of media policy led African countries from the three distinct European linguistic spheres (French, English and Portuguese) to draw on the institutional models in use by the former colonial powers. Media policy is a fundamental issue for democratic consolidation, and one that has received different responses in the French - and English-speaking African public spheres. Thi…
Covering Post-Conflict Elections: Challenges for the Media in Central Africa
In the past ten years, elections were held in six countries of Central Africa experiencing “post-conflict” situations. The polls that took place in Burundi (2005), the Central African Republic (2005), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Congo-Brazzaville (2002, 2007), Chad (1996, 2001, 2006) and Rwanda (2003) were crucial for peace-building. In some cases, they were widely supported and supervised by the international community, being co…
Médias en mutation: De l'Émancipation Aux Nouvelles Contraintes
Constatant les échecs fréquents des politiques de reboisement collectif au Burkina Faso et au Bénin, l’article cherche à comprendre pourquoi les populations locales manifestent peu d’intérêt pour la protection et l’entretien de ces plantations. Une perspective anthropologique – l’enchevêtrement des représentations et des pratiques liées aux traditions locales – et historique – l’héritage colonial – basée sur des enquêtes ethnobotaniques permet de…
New private media in French-speaking West African Countries: Problems and Prospects
In this paper, we will try to take a closer look at the rise of the democratic transition in two French-speaking West African countries: Benin, often referred to as "the country where it all started", and Niger that can be considered as one of the weak copies of the Beninese model. In the first part of the paper, we will try to show how the democratic experiment took place in both countries and how private and government-owned media came to play …
Pluralisme médiatique au Bénin: L'Heure Des Désillusions
Frère Marie-Soleil. Pluralisme médiatique au Bénin : l’heure des désillusions ?. In: Politique africaine, n°57, 1995. L'Angola dans la guerre. pp. 142-149
Pluralisme médiatique au Bénin: L'Heure Des Désillusions
Frère Marie-Soleil. Pluralisme médiatique au Bénin : l’heure des désillusions ?. In: Politique africaine, n°57, 1995. L'Angola dans la guerre. pp. 142-149
New private media in French-speaking West African Countries: Problems and Prospects
In this paper, we will try to take a closer look at the rise of the democratic transition in two French-speaking West African countries: Benin, often referred to as "the country where it all started", and Niger that can be considered as one of the weak copies of the Beninese model. In the first part of the paper, we will try to show how the democratic experiment took place in both countries and how private and government-owned media came to play …
The journalist and the griot. Tracing the oral tradition in the African Press
This paper will show the similarities between the journalist's role and narrative style and those of the griot, a key player the traditional exercise of power. The new private press appeared in French-speaking Africa as a part of the democratic process at the beginning of the 1990's, in the context of politic liberalization (multipartism, institutional renewal) and in the flow of a new type of political speech that allows contradictions, critique…
Le Journaliste et le Griot. Les Traces de L’oralite dans la Presse Ecrite Africaine
The Journalist and the Griot. Tracing the Oral Tradition in the African Press This paper will show the similarities between the journalist's role and narrative style and those of the griot1, a key player the traditional exercise of power. The new private press appeared in French-speaking Africa as a part of the democratic process at the beginning of the 1990’s, in the context of politic liberalization (multipartism, institutional renewal) and in …
Démocratie au Bénin et au Niger
The democratic renewal in Africa at the beginning of the 1990' s is marked by events which are at the same time social, political and linguistic. It is around the word « democracy », its semantic network and linguistic pluralism that the press in Benin and Niger have structured the debate on the future of African society at the time of transitional phases experienced as the public speech
Les mots et le pouvoir: Le nouveau vocabulaire de la presse privée dans les régimes de transition en Afrique
Cet article propose une analyse des mots qui ont accompagne et sous-tendu le devenir politique du continent africain depuis que les medias y ont fait leur apparition. Trois generations de mots sont reperees : les mots des autres et les mots d'ailleurs de la periode coloniale, les mots contingentes des regimes monopartisans (mots d'ordre et mots autochtones) et les mots liberes des transitions democratiques. Dans cette cerniere categorie, l'A. dis…
Médias en mutation: De l'Émancipation Aux Nouvelles Contraintes
Constatant les échecs fréquents des politiques de reboisement collectif au Burkina Faso et au Bénin, l’article cherche à comprendre pourquoi les populations locales manifestent peu d’intérêt pour la protection et l’entretien de ces plantations. Une perspective anthropologique – l’enchevêtrement des représentations et des pratiques liées aux traditions locales – et historique – l’héritage colonial – basée sur des enquêtes ethnobotaniques permet de…
République démocratique du Congo: Les Médias en Transition
Le paysage médiatique du Congo-Kinshasa compte des centaines de publications, de stations de radio et des dizaines de chaînes de télévision. Plus de 4 000 individus sont considérés comme des professionnels des médias dans ce pays qui a connu successivement la dictature, une démocratisation chaotique et cinq années de guerre. Le secteur médiatique, largement à reconstruire et marqué par des années de corruption et de violence, a néanmoins aujourd'…
The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
« Cadavres en sursis »: L'affaire Zongo et la difficile libération des médias au Burkina Faso
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Quand le pluralisme déraille: Images et manipulations télévisuelles à Kinshasa
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Les médias au Congo: Un « pluralisme quantitatif »
After the hate media: Regulation in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
During the past 15 years Central Africa, and specifically Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been through devastating wars in which the media became actors. In 1993, some Burundese newspapers were described as ‘hate media’ and one year later Radio télévision mille collines (RTLM) in Rwanda became the first of those described as ‘death media’, preparing minds for genocide and helping in its implementation. In the Democratic…
Elections And The Media In Post- Conflict Africa: Votes And Voices For Peace
Over the past ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Rwanda all organized pluralist elections in a post conflict context, having experienced an armed conflict which either interrupted or prevented democratization processes. These polls were organized with the support of the international community, which viewed them as a crucial step in the peace-building process. The local medi…
Covering Post-Conflict Elections: Challenges for the Media in Central Africa
In the past ten years, elections were held in six countries of Central Africa experiencing “post-conflict” situations. The polls that took place in Burundi (2005), the Central African Republic (2005), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Congo-Brazzaville (2002, 2007), Chad (1996, 2001, 2006) and Rwanda (2003) were crucial for peace-building. In some cases, they were widely supported and supervised by the international community, being co…
Perspectives on the media in ‘another Africa’
A dual journal project was launched in 2010 to build bridges between French and English media research spheres through the translation and reciprocal publication of a series of essays from each linguistic sphere. In 2012, a special issue of Afrique contemporaine ('Les Afriques médiatiques') was published, with six essays in French by authors working on media from the English-language zone. The present issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Stud…
Media regulation in sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and stakes in French-speaking countries
After independence since the 1960s, the legacies and traditions in the field of media policy led African countries from the three distinct European linguistic spheres (French, English and Portuguese) to draw on the institutional models in use by the former colonial powers. Media policy is a fundamental issue for democratic consolidation, and one that has received different responses in the French - and English-speaking African public spheres. Thi…
Les Afriques médiatiques: Introduction thématique
SCOPUS: ar.j
Journalist in Africa: A high-risk profession under threat
Every year, several international organizations monitoring press freedom worldwide issue reports in which they underline the occupational hazards faced by journalists while reporting. Some African countries, such as Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia or Equatorial Guinea, have been regularly pinpointed at the bottom of these annual rankings. A few others (Cap Vert, Namibia, Niger, Ghana, South Africa) are crawling among the top 50 countries in the world. Ho…
Journalistic identity and audience perceptions: Paradigm and models under construction in the African Great Lakes region
This article is based on a research conducted in three African countries (Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), focusing on the recent evolution of the journalistic profession and the way journalists are perceived today and represented by members of the audience polled in five localities of the region. In the last twenty years, journalism has been deeply transformed, following the liberalization of the media sector, on one ha…
Francophone Africa: The rise of ‘pluralist authoritarian’ media systems
SCOPUS: ar.j
Briefing: Burkina Faso--the Fall of Blaise Compaore
under the sustained assault of a coalition of youth, cultural leaders, civil society organizations and opposition parties, and after the defection of core segments of his military. Compaor had been in power since the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara on 15 October 1987. This briefing first discusses the actual sequence of events that led to the transition. We then identify some deeper trends that weakened the regime, including the d…
Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security
Silencing the voice of the voiceless: The destruction of the independent broadcasting sector in Burundi
SCOPUS: re.j
Radio France Internationale” and “Deutsche Welle” in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change
For decades international radio broadcasters on the African continent were considered the tools of Western imperialism, ideological weapons in the Cold War. Yet international broadcasters also provided a crucial, alternative supply of information in times of state monopoly of the media and when there was a lack of freedom of expression. Over the past 20 years, the media have become more open and numerous in the countries of French-speaking Africa…
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · African history and culture studies (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Democracy (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Humanities (9 works)