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A Handbook for African Journalists on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Nairobi: Environmental Compliance Institute; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2015), 100 pp.
"This Handbook provides African journalists and other environmental practitioners with a user- friendly compilation of the key environmental issues affecting the African continent together with the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that address these issues. It is a quick, yet detailed, r ... more
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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.
Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100
"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more
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Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks
In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa
Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132
"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more
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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.
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Flucht, Migration und Asyl im Film: Arbeitshilfe mit Filmbeispielen, didaktischen Tipps, Lehrplanbezügen und theoretischen Anregungen zum Thema

Matthias Ganter et al.
Köln: Medienzentrale des Erzbistums Köln (2015), 58 pp.
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Participatory Visual Research with Subsistence Farmers in Papua New Guinea

Katja Mikhailovich, Barbara Pamphilon, Barbara Chambers
Development in Practice, volume 25, issue 7 (2015), pp. 997-1010
"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p ... more
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Decolonizing Communication for Social Change: A Culture-Centered Approach

Mohan J. Dutta
Communication Theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143
"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro ... more
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State of Social Media Technologies for Disaster Preparedness in Asia Pacific Region

Ying-Chia Hsu, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Nguyen Thi Hoan
Singapore: Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information; American Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center (2015), 28 pp.
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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación
César Bolaño, Delia Crovi Druetta, Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)
Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 447-478
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Covering Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases: A Guide to Better Journalism. Lessons Learned from Global Coverage of the Ebola Virus Crisis

African Media Initiative (AMI) (2015), 23 pp.
"For journalists, coverage of the Ebola epidemic offers vital lessons that could help the media industry deliver a more public-interest oriented service geared towards combating the spread the disease. It is these lessons that have helped shape the following guidelines. The guidelines have been glea ... more
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Exploring Social Media’s Role in Development: A Learning Resource on ICT for Development for Institutions of Higher Education

Emmanuel C. Lallana
Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2015), 99 pp.
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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (2015), 2 pp.
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Guía básica de recursos educativos abiertos (REA)

Asha Kanwar, Stamenka Uvalic´-Trumbic (eds.)
UNESCO (2015), iv, 150 pp.
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Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), xix, 271 pp.
"Entertainment-education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa is a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars in entertainment-education, including writers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States. Chapters cover a wide range of application and strategi ... more
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Writing and Producing for Television and Film
Key Guides

Esta de Fossard, John Riber
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xiii 234 pp.
"This book is intended as a guide on the use of the visual media for behavior change communication. It is not intended as a textbook for those just entering the world of television or film writing and production. While there are some reminders of good writing and production techniques for many progr ... more
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Rádios comunitárias e desenvolvimento sustentável: Mapa digital como prospecção de cenário da comunicação comunitária em áreas de conflito socioambiental na Amazônia

Rosane Maria Albino Steinbrenner, Brunella Lago Velloso, Larissa Carreira da Cunha
XXXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação (Intercom) (2015), 15 pp.
"O presente trabalho apresenta o mapeamento digital de rádios comunitárias na Amazônia Legal, realizado no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Mídia Cidadã e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: mapeamento e estudo das rádios comunitárias em áreas de potencial conflito socioambiental na Am ... more
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Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with Albinism in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco
Disability & Society, volume 30, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1143-1157
"This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowle ... more
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Communication and Complex Emergencies: A Resource Guide

Andrew Skuse, Tait Brimacombe, Dianne Rodger
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU); Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) (2015), 57 pp.
"This resource guide assesses the broad role of information and communication in disaster situations and complex emergencies. It highlights a number of distinct communication phases or cycles associated with emergency or crisis communication, as well as defining the broad range and diversity of init ... more
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Disasters and Information Source Repertoires: Information Seeking and Information Sufficiency in Postearthquake Haiti

Erich Sommerfeldt
Journal of Applied Communication Research, volume 43, issue 1 (2015), pp. 1-22
"This study examines how Haitians used “information source repertoires” to meet information insufficiencies following the 2010 earthquake. Using survey data gained in Haiti, the study explores which demographic and structural factors predicted the number of sources used and combinations of infor ... more
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Participatory Video and Citizen Voice – We’ve Raised Their Voices: Is Anyone Listening?

Tamara Plush
Glocal Times, issue 22-23 (2015), 16 pp.
"Sheathed in the glamour of filmmaking and technical innovation, participatory video (PV) is often evangelised as a communication for development methodology that intrinsically fosters transformative social and political change. Such celebratory notions, however, can obscure the complexity facing pa ... more