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Media, Development and Institutional Change

Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2009), x, 173 pp.
"Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development." (Pu ... more
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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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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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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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Reporting REDD+: A Journalist’s Guide to the Role of Forests in Combating Global Climate Change

Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP); Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) (2009), 14 pp.
"For journalists, REDD+ is a tricky story to cover for a number of reasons. 1. Forest statistics are often unreliable or out of date. Figures need to be carefully checked, compared to other statistics and analysed for their real significance. Sources also need to be assessed. 2. REDD+’s final shap ... more
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Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development: A Training Resource Kit

Eleanor Bird, Richard Lutz, Christine Warwick
Paris: UNESCO (2008), 66 pp.
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Entertainment-Education and Audience Responses: The Case of Menta-Menged Radio Serial Drama in Ethiopia

Aderaw Genetu
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2008), vi, 89 pp.
"This study attempts to explore entertainment-education (E-E) radio drama audience responses/reactions, their motivating factors in writing letters to the drama and the relationship between audience responses and over all program goals of the drama, Menta Menged (Crossroads), in Ethiopia. Because en ... more
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The Institutional Challenges of Participatory Communication in International Aid

Silvio Waisbord
Social Indentities, volume 14, issue 4 (2008), pp. 502-522
"This article offers an explanation for the limited uses of participatory communication in development by taking an institutionalist perspective that examines prevalent notions about communication and organizational uses in international aid institutions. The argument is that institutional goals and ... more
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Strategic Communication for Privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, and Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects

Daniele Calabrese
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), vii, 43 pp.
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Building Public Awareness of Development: Communicators, Educators and Evaluation

Annette Scheunpflug, Ida McDonnell
Paris: OECD Development Centre (2008), 38 pp.
"Donors and practitioners could make greater use of evaluations, and their findings, to increase the effectiveness and results of public communication, advocacy and education about global development. The first step is to understand the evaluation process and respect its rigours. The second is to ac ... more
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The Uganda Tuberculosis Communication Strategy

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2008), viii, 21 pp.
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BCO Impact Assessment Study: The Final Report

David Souter et al.
London: BCO Building Communication Opportunities (2008), 192 pp.
"This report investigates the impact media and ICTs can have on the lives of the poor, based on the experiences of nine donors and NGOs forming part of the "Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)" alliance. It suggests that radio will have the most influence on social and political change where ... more
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Communicating with Radio: What Do We Know? Findings from a Review of Selected Rural Radio Effectiveness Evaluations
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Linje Manyozo
Ottawa: Farm Radio International, African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) (2008), 105 pp.
"This study reviews and analyses what has already been documented on the links between radio-based communication strategies and rural development outcomes, particularly with regards to smallholder farming and food security outcomes. The report explores best radio practices, including issues related ... more
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Soul Buddyz Tomorrow is Ours: Evaluation Report 2008

Dunkeld West: Soul City Institute (2008), 24 pp.
"Soul Buddyz, an initiative of the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (IHDC), in partnership with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), is a multi-media intervention targeting children aged 8 to 14 in South Africa. The intervention is focused on the promotion o ... more
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Illegale Drogen in populären Spielfilmen: Eine kommentierte Übersicht über Spielfilme zum Thema illegale Drogen ab 1995. Mit ergänzenden Handlungsempfehlungen für den Einsatz von Spielfilmen im Rahmen der Suchtprävention

Sabine Goette, Renate Röllecke
Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), 2. erw. und überarb. Aufl. (2008), 135 pp.
"Die Autorinnen dieses Fachhefts liefern zunächst einen historischen Abriss zur Geschichte des Drogenfilms und stellen im Anschluss daran 20 Kinoproduktionen (aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2005) vor, bei denen Drogen, Drogensucht und Drogenhandel zentraler Bestandteil der Haupthandlung sind beziehungswei ... more
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Periodismo y comunicación para la gestión de riesgo en la subregión andina: Discursos periodísticos y perpsectivas para un enfoque prospectivo y preventivo

Rafael Obregón, Jesús Arroyave, Marta Milena Barrios
Folios (Universidad de Antioquia), issue 23 (2008), pp. 105-135
"El presente artículo analiza los discursos periodísticos y la representación de temas claves vinculados a la gestión del riesgo de desastres en cuatro países de la subregión Andina. El estudio se apoya en elementos teóricos de la investigación en medios y periodismo, tales como Agenda Setti ... more
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Comunicación y desarrollo: En busca de la coherencia

Pedro Arjona
Madrid: Fundación Carolina; Siglo XXI Editores (2008), xxxiii, 250 pp.
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The Media, Poverty and Public Opinion in the UK

John H. McKendrick, Stephen Sinclair, Anthea Irwin Hugh et al.
York, UK: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) (2008), 72 pp.
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Jornalismo ambiental: Desafios e reflexões

Ilza Maria Tourinho Girardi, Reges Toni Schwaab (org.)
Porto Alegre: Dom Quixote (2008), 479 pp.
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Unbounded Possibilities: Observations on Sustaining Rural Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Africa

Ian Douglas Howard
Johannesburg: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2008), 23 pp.
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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.