Research on national communication policy in Africa and Tanzania

The African media landscape took on a new configuration in the 1990s because of the increased cry for multi-party democracy and the privatization of media. Until the 1990s policy was dominated by national development goals guided by the state. The technological, political and economic shifts taking place in the 1980s and 1990s heralded, for many, a new paradigm in communication policy. Policy decisions now are dominated by the concepts of convergence and interlinking of different forms of media, concentration of ownership, self-regulation, diversity in the patterns of media ownership, universal information access in the digital age and globalization.