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Practice Brief: Communicating with Communities During the First Six Weeks of an Emergency Response

CDAC Network (2014), 9 pp.
"This practice brief outlines the essential ‘Communicating with Communities’ (CwC) elements’ required during the first six weeks of a humanitarian response. Many of the core elements are not ‘new’ to humanitarian response; however, while practitioners will be familiar with many of them, ev ... more
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Development Journalism and Gender: A Case Study of Broadcasting Media in Tanzania

Eva Solomon
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 277 pp.
"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re ... more
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Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century

Helen Hughes
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2014), vii, 175 pp.
"During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to ... more
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Making a Drama Out of a Crisis

Time to Change (2014), 7 pp.
"In this report Time to Change explores how mental health problems are being portrayed in today’s TV dramas. From big budget box sets to homegrown soaps, mental health is being covered more frequently on the small screen. What impact are these storylines having on the viewing public, the media ind ... more
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Communications, Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management

Raquel Vazquez Llorente, Imogen Wall (eds.)
European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2014), 68 pp.
"The articles contained in this publication are dispatches from a new frontline in humanitarian action: the digital frontier. All are written by those observing, experiencing and attempting to respond to the challenges created by the digital revolution and the very real threats it is creating for hu ... more
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Emergencia del territorio y comunicación local: Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en Colombia

Eliana Herrera Huérfano, María Victoria Rugeles Gélvez, Andrea Sotelo Carreño, Jair Vega Casanova (eds.)
Barranquilla; Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD); Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto); Universidad Santo Tomás (2014), xxx, 487 pp.
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A Participatory Framework for Researching and Evaluating Communication for Development and Social Change

Jo Tacchi, June Lennie
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregón (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 298-320
"This chapter first discusses evaluation of communication for development in relation to ideas around participation and social change, before presenting the framework for evaluating communication for development and social change, and the key principles that underpin it. It then describes some of th ... more
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Information for All: European Standards for Making Information Easy to Read and Understand

Brussels: Inclusion Europe (2014), 38 pp.
"These standards are to help people make their information easy to read and understand. We have made these standards as part of a project that took place in Europe. People from 8 European countries met several times to write these standards. The project which brought these people together was called ... more
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Nvtramkaiñ Kom Taiñ Ixofil Mogen: Reflection, Learning and Knowledge Sharing Through Indigenous Community Filmmaking. Final Technical Report

Thora Herrmann, Ariella Orbach
Montréal: Université de Montréal; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2014), 34 pp.
"Our project used video as a tool for enabling two Indigenous Mapuche communities in Chile, and particularly their youth, to approach and analyze local development issues and bring local perspectives to the forefront of debates on biocultural diversity conservation and equitable development. The pro ... more
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Slum Discourse, Media Representations and Maisha Mtaani in Kibera, Kenya

Brian Ekdale
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 92-108
"This article examines the discourse surrounding Kibera, a highly populated low-income community in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on 11 months of fieldwork and interviews with 56 Kibera residents, this article discusses the disconnect between the lives experienced by residents and the hyperbolic and essenti ... more
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Good Practices in Development Communication

OECD Development Centre (2014), 99 pp.
"This report reviews and highlights some key issues in the current debate on development communication. To do so it draws on experiences and inputs from members of the Informal Network of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Development Communicators (DevCom) [...] The report starts by looking at ... more
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The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study

Trevor van Mierlo
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2014), 10 pp.
"In recent years, cyberculture has informally reported a phenomenon named the 1% rule, or 90-9-1 principle, which seeks to explain participatory patterns and network effects within Internet communities. The rule states that 90% of actors observe and do not participate, 9% contribute sparingly, and 1 ... more
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The Role of Broadcast Media in Disaster Preparedness Education: Lessons Learned in the Scientific Literature 2002–2012

Eila Romo-Murphy, Marita Vos
Media Asia, volume 41, issue 1 (2014), pp. 71-85
"This paper aims to clarify the role of broadcast media in disaster preparedness education concerning natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. This is done by means of a systematic review of the scientific literature on this topic over the last 10 years. The results show that media inform ... more
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Comunicación para otro desarrollo: Escuchar antes de hablar

Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez
Madrid: Editorial Popular (2014), 216 pp.
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Sentipensamientos: De la comunicación-desarrollo a la comunicación para el vivir bién

Adalid Contreras Baspineiro
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (UASB); Ediciones La Tierra (2014), 190 pp.
"Este libro demuestra cómo desde su cosmovisión —que entiende la espléndida existencia en la armonía de los hombres consigo mismos, en sociedad y con la naturaleza—, el suma qamaña/sumak kausay es una propuesta profundamente comunicacional sustentada en valores y prácticas comunitarias com ... more
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Pacific Media and Climate Change Toolkit: Activities Manual

Nanette Woonton et al.
Apia, Samoa: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (2014), 28 pp.
"The Pacific Media and Climate Change Project provided face-to-face training for 60 Pacific climate change practitioners on communicating climate science and adaptation knowledge and supported nearly 100 media people in reporting climate change issues. This hands-on training will be supported by thi ... more
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Communication, Development, and Social Change: Future Alternatives

Florencia Enghel
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 119-141
"To a certain extent the field's shortcomings could be the consequence of academic work increasingly trapped in the normativity of the development industry and out of touch with the variety of agents concerned with social injustice worldwide, who are deploying communication and media strategies to a ... more
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Hashtag Standards for Emergencies

Roxanne Moore, Andrej Verity
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2014), 15 pp.
"Twitter is the primary social media platform discussed in this Think Brief. However, the use of hashtags has spread to other social media platforms, including Sina Weibo, Facebook, Google+ and Diaspora. As a result, the ideas behind hashtag standardization may have a much larger sphere of influence ... more
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El cine comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe
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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron (coord.)
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2014), 534 pp.
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Mass Communication Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

UNHCR; REACH (2014), 5 pp.