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Final Progress Towards 2015-20 Strategic Intentions & Goals

Farm Radio International (2021), 35 pp.
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Role of Frequency Modulation Radio in Disaster Communication: A Case Study of Pakistan Earthquake

Syed I. Rahman, Nauman Sial, Sanya Moazzam
Jàmbá - Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, volume 13, issue 1: a1047 (2021), 9 pp.
"Pakistan suffered from a massive earthquake in October 2005 that caused the deaths of more than 87 000 people. As a result of this calamity, around 3.5 million affected people had no access to information. In these scenarios, community media became an important catalyst. In developing countries, ra ... more
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The Dignified Storytelling Handbook

Dignified Storytelling Alliance (2021), 119 pp.
"Each of us brings our own perspectives, personalities, and cultural backgrounds to the stories we consume or create. The Dignified Storytelling Handbook is not intended to prescribe a “one-fit” point of view for everyone – rather it seeks to offer tips and tools to help thoughtfully and criti ... more
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Social Media Effectiveness as a Humanitarian Response to Mitigate Influenza Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic

Kumar, Sameer, Chong Xu, Nidhi Ghildayal, Charu Chandra, Muer Yang
Annals of Operations Research, volume 319 (2021), pp. 823–851
"Influenza and COVID-19 are infectious diseases with significant burdens. Information and awareness on preventative techniques can be spread through the use of social media, which has become an increasingly utilized tool in recent years. This study developed a dynamic transmission model to investiga ... more
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Learning from Communicators in Social Change: Rethinking the Power of Development

Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2021), xxiii, 270 pp.
"This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents. It places emphasis on both the theoretical foundation and prac ... more
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The Climate Crisis: Mobile-Enabled Solutions in Humanitarian Emergencies

Jenny Casswell, Zoe Hamilton
London: GSMA (2021), 27 pp.
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A Year in the Life of Fiji’s Beleaguered National News Media: Insights from the 2016 State of the Media Report and Some Potential Implications of ‘Development Journalism’

Shailendra B. Singh
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 553-570
"This case study on the state of the media in Fiji in 2016 highlights some problems of development journalism in the practical, applied sense. The case study looks at the changing nature of journalism in post-coup Fiji, reputed to have the South Pacific’s toughest media law. The analysis is conduc ... more
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Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current State and Future Requirements in Information, Communication and International Cooperation

Jenny Teufel, Viviana Lopez
Bonn: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN); Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) (2021), 51 pp.
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‘Working with the Media Taught Us a Lot’: Understanding The Guardian’s Katine Initiative

Ben Jones
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 448-464
"One of the more important ventures in the world of media and development over the past decade has been The Guardian newspaper’s ‘Katine’ project in Uganda. The newspaper, with funding from its readers and Barclays Bank, put more than 2.5 million pounds into a Ugandan sub-county over the cours ... more
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A intersecção entre desinformação, religião e pandemia: A atuação de canais religiosos no YouTube no contexto da COVID-19

Michele Goulart Massuchiu, Marcela Barba Santos
Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), 30 pp.
"Este artigo discute a interseção entre desinformação e religião a partir de canais do YouTube tendo como cenário a pandemia de COVID-19. Para tanto, são analisados 75 materiais audiovisuais postados em dois canais do YouTube – do Pastor Silas Malafaia e do Instituto Plinio Corrêa de Olive ... more
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The Role of Religious Actors in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theory-Based Empirical Analysis with Policy Recommendations for Action

Alexander Yendell, Oliver Hidalgo, Carolin Hillenbrand
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Universität Münster, Religion und Politik (2021), 144 pp.
"The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. On the other hand, there is far less public discussion on the key role played by religious communities as civil ... more
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Philanthropy-Funded Journalism: Implications for Media Independence and Editorial Credibility in South Africa

Dumisani Moyo
In: Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisani Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana, Shanade Bianca Barnabas (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), pp. 193-216
"Over the past decade, philanthropic organisations have poured millions of dollars into different specialised forms of journalism in Africa. While these new specialised forms of journalism are aimed at addressing existing gaps in news reporting on the continent, there has been growing concern over t ... more
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Effects of an E-Reader Intervention on Literacy, Numeracy and Non-Verbal Reasoning Among Adolescent Girls in Zambia: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

Barbara S. Mensch, Nicole Haberland, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Jean Digitale, Natalie Jackson-Hachonda et al.
Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 247-275
"This paper presents results from a three-arm randomized controlled trial in Zambia with a sample of nearly 1200 adolescent girls enrolled in Grade 7. Selected primary schools (N=36) were randomly assigned within each of three districts to one of three arms: 1) e-readers, which girls could take home ... more
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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts

Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse ... more
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National Emergency Telecommunications Plans: Enablers and Safeguards. A Brief Evaluation Guide for Policy Practitioners

Ken Okong'o
London: GSMA (2021), 16 pp.
"Section 1 focuses on creating an enabling environment. Mobile network operators (MNOs) operate in a regulated environment.5 However, if this environment is not sufficiently enabling to support disaster preparedness, response and recovery, MNOs will encounter challenges when disaster strikes. This s ... more
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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

Ana Cristina Suzina (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy ... more
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Instrucción para la aplicación de la modalidad de la enseñanza a distancia en las universidades/facultades eclesiásticas

Vatican City: Congregación para la Edicación Católica (2021), 14 pp.
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The Barbados Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA): How the Flow of Information Impacts Disaster Preparedness and Response

Internews (2021), 95 pp.
"Barbadians are not sufficiently prepared for natural disasters. In addition to being heavily reliant on electricity and the internet for communicating during times of crises and disasters, Barbados is in need of a mandatory building code, more resilient housing and building infrastructures, and gre ... more
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Behavioural change promotion toward cleaner cooking solutions

Alessandro Galimberti
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2021), 57 pp.
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Radio comunitaria en pandemia: Aprendizajes y experiencias

Edmundo Armando Grijalva Brito (coord.)
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2021), 126 pp.
"¿Qué papel tuvieron las radios comunitarias durante la pandemia? Los autores de esta publicación analizan el contexto y los desafíos de la comunicación popular en Ecuador. La infodemia, la proliferación de noticias falsas, las dificultades de los medios de comunicación tradicionales en llega ... more