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Healing the Messenger: A Journalist’s Trauma Booklet. Special Edition Kenya

Nairobi; Copenhagen: Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators and Designers; Kenya Correspondents Association; Kenya Union of Journalists; International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 38 pp.
"Providing counseling for reporters who have witnessed some of the worst things that can happen to humanity – with no tools to handle the emotional shock – was identified as one of the most imminent and crucial needs for support to Kenyan media practitioners in the aftermath of the disputed Dece ... more
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Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of Interactive Radio Instruction for the Hardest-To-Reach

Jennifer Ho, Hetal Thurkal
Washington, DC: Education Development Center, Inc. (2009), iv, 64 pp.
"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo ... more
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FutureConnect: A Review of Social Networking Today, Tomorrow and Beyond and the Challenges for AIDS Communicators

Pete Cranston, Tim Davies (eds.)
South Orange, NJ: Communication for Social Change Consortium (2009), 74 pp.
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Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice

Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton (eds.)
Bristol: intellect (2009), vii, 224 pp.
"Applied Theatre is the first collection to assist practitioners and students in developing critical frameworks for their own community-based theatrical projects. The editors draw on thirty case studies in applied theatre from fifteen countries—covering a wide range of applications from theatre, e ... more
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Know Disaster, Tell Disaster Risk Reduction: Training Handbook for Media Professionals

Kobe: SEEDS Asia; United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2009), 57 pp.
"This handbook will help media practitioners to conceptualize the risks, expand their knowledge on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with their audiences. Efforts were made to ensure that loca ... more
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A natureza da mídia: Os discursos da TV sobre a Amazônia, a biodiversidade, os povos da floresta

Manuel Sena Dutra
São Paulo: Annablume (2009), 257 pp.
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Communication for Participatory Development: Dialogue, Action, and Change

D. Lawrence Kincaid, María Elena Figueroa
In: Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research
Lawrence R. Frey, Kenneth N. Cissna (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2009), pp. 506-531
"Our review of relevant literature identified the following eight issues related to communication for participatory development: 1. The concept of development needs to be reformulated in a manner that applies to human development in local communities, as well as the traditional focus on national dev ... more
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Entertainment-Education Through Digital Games

Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal
In: Serious games: Mechanisms and effects
Ute RItterfield, Michael Cody, Peter Verderer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 271-292
"In summary, the present chapter analyzed the role of digital games in the growing practice of entertainment-education. We argued that serious games should not be automatically labeled as E-E digital games just because they include some social content. Connections were drawn between the social inter ... more
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Moved to Act: Communication Supporting HIV Social Movements to Achieve Inclusive Social Change

Robin Vincent, Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 630-642
"Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisation, neo-liberal trade policies, the rights of w ... more
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Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millenium Development Goals

John V. Vilanilam
New Dehli: Sage (2009), xx, 272 pp.
"Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millennium Development Goals analyzes seven Indian newspapers for a period of seven months and evaluates the extent to which development issues are addressed in them. The findings reveal an under-representation of development issues in the media ... more
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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Deep Insights

Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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Climate Change and the Media

Tammy Boyce, Justin Lewis (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), xvii, 277 pp.
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Comunicación y construcción de ciudadanía: Aportes para el desarrollo

Laura Cárdenas Lorenzo
Madrid: Libros de la Catarata; Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación (IUDC-UCM) (2009), 157 pp.
"Esta obra parte de la idea de que sin comunicación no es posible el desarrollo, pues ésta compromete de manera participativa a todos los sectores que conforman nuestras sociedades. A pesar de la existencia de innumerables medios masivos, locales y globales, y de nuevas tecnologías de la informac ... more
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Medios de comunicación y protección de la infancia en contexto de crisis humanitarias

Raquel González Juárez, Aurora Labio Bernal, Antonio Manfredi Díaz
Sevilla: Save the Children España (2009), 87 pp.
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Nuevas miradas en la práctica periodística: Pobreza, exclusión e integración social

Santiago de Chile: Universidad Diego Portales, Escuela de Periodismo; Fundación Superación de la Pobreza; Hogar de Cristo; Fundación Avina (2009), 91 pp.
"Cuando el 2004 iniciamos el Programa de Comunicación y Pobreza la apuesta fue trabajar mancomunadamente para generar un espacio de reflexión, propuestas y formación en torno al desafío de contribuir a la superación de la pobreza y la integración social desde la comunicación y el periodismo. ... more
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Radio Connecting Papua: The Impacts of Radio Pikon Ane on Communities in Kurima, Yahukimo, Papua

Eriyanto Wahyni, Esti Wahyni
Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) (2009), 64 pp.
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The Applied Theatre Reader

Tim Prentki, Sheila Preston (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2009), xvi, 380 pp.
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Using Edutainment for Distance Education in Community Work
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Esta de Fossard
Michael Bailey (contrib.)
New Dehli: Sage (2008), 309 pp.
"Community workers in developing countries can provide on-the-ground support to encourage the general public to adopt and maintain behaviour change. This book is designed specifically as a guide for the creation of distance education programmes for these community workers. Covering the whole process ... more
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Entangled in the Web of Life: Biodiversity and the Media

Mike Shanahan
London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2008), 4 pp.
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Medios de comunicación y pobreza. Encuesta: Lo que opina la audiencia

Santiago de Chile: Comunicación y Pobreza; Fundación Superación de la Pobreza; Ipsos (2008), 31 slides
"Objetivos generales: caracterizar la forma en que los medios de comunicación social tratan el tema de la pobreza, tomando como fuente de información la población encuestada en el Gran Santiago; determinar factores de mejora en la forma de comunicar acerca de la pobreza, a través de los medios d ... more