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Social Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Dilemma of Fake News Clutter Vs. Social Responsibility

Moez Ben Messaoud
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 14, issue 1 (2021), pp. 25-45
"This article examines the relationship between fake news and social media as increasingly important sources of news, at a time when mainstream media no longer have exclusive control over news production and dissemination. It has been evident that few media outlets and professionals tend to draw con ... more
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Information Saves Lives: Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Final Project Report

Internews; USAID (2021), 33 pp.
"On June 25, 2020, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Eastern DRC – the 10th in the country’s history and the second largest after the West Africa Ebola outbreak. The outbreak recorded over 3,000 Ebola cases and left over 2,000 deaths1. W ... more
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Information Sharing Protocol: Somalia

Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG); Somalia Information Management and Assessment Working Group (IMAWG) (2021), 12 pp.
"This Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) is designed to support data responsibility in Somalia. Data responsibility in humanitarian action is the safe, ethical and effective management of personal and non-personal data for operational response, in accordance with established frameworks for personal ... more
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Persuasive strategies in online health misinformation: A systematic review

Wei Peng, Sue Lim, Jingbo Meng
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 11 (2021), pp. 2131-2148
"A proliferation of a variety of health misinformation is present online, particularly during times of public health crisis. To combat online health misinformation, numerous studies have been conducted to taxonomize health misinformation or examine debunking strategies for various types of health mi ... more
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Disability Reporting in the Media

Internews (2021), 18 pp.
"In this manual, we discuss key disability issues, key messages and principles for journalists wanting to support the human rights of Africans with disabilities. The manual also deals with terminology - it is about using words and that puts the person rather than the disability first. Jounalists wil ... more
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Lineamientos generales para una propuesta de medios en la escuela

Patricia Rodríguez
Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación (2021), 27 pp.
"Los medios escolares son espacios socioeducativos que no solo ayudan a enriquecer las trayectorias educativas de las y los jóvenes que los transitan, sino que también posibilitan la ampliación de experiencias de aprendizaje que trascienden el aula. Un estudio de grabación, un control de radio, ... more
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Putting People First: Participatory Development Communication and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Guy Bessette
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 233-244
"Most effective agriculture, environment and natural resource management projects tend to be those in which community members, development practitioners or agriculture experts jointly identify research or development parameters and participate in the decision-making process. In these projects, commu ... more
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From Digital Promise to Frontline Practice: New and Emerging Technologies in Humanitarian Action

Leonie Arendt-Cassetta
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2021), 65 pp.
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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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Vaccine Hesitancy in Online Spaces: A Scoping Review of the Research Literature, 2000-2020

Timothy Neff, Jonas Kaiser, Irene Pasquetto, Dariusz Jemielniak, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Siobhan Grayson, Natalie Gyenes, Paola Ricaurte, Javier Ruiz-Soler, Amy Zhang
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 5 (2021), 18 pp.
"We review 100 articles published from 2000 to early 2020 that research aspects of vaccine hesitancy in online communication spaces and identify several gaps in the literature prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. These gaps relate to five areas: disciplinary focus; specific vaccine, condition, or disease ... more
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Community Radio for Social Change: Restoring Decentralized Democratic Discursive Spaces

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the ... more
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Humanitarian Communication in a Post-Truth World

Mel Bunce
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 1, issue 1 (2021), pp. 49-55
"When people look online for information about humanitarian crises, they increasingly encounter media content that blurs the line between reality and fiction. This includes everything from rumour and exaggeration to partisan journalism and completely invented stories designed to look like real news ... more
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Sustainable, Universal Access to the Internet: Environmental Implications and Policy Choices

Teddy Woodhouse
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 29 pp.
"This report analyses how governments are building climate and carbon factors into their broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests policy recommendations towards a greener internet. We compiled publicly available documents for the national broadband plans from the 100 l ... more
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Radio y salud mental en América Latina
Deep Insights

Tito Ballesteros López, Sara Makowski
Buenos Aires: Teseopress (2021), 225 pp.
"Las 13 experiencias de radios de salud mental que se exponen aquí, han sido un medio terapéutico que a la fecha no ha logrado ser reconocida de manera relevante por las formas hegemónicas establecidas encaminadas al tratamiento de padecimientos mentales, pero la buena noticia es que este texto h ... more
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Poverty Narratives in Popular Culture: Final Report

Erica L. Rosenthal, Adam Amel Rogers, Shawn van Valkenburgh
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2021), 30 pp.
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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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Meinungsmonitor Entwicklungspolitik 2021: Medieninhalte, Informationen, Appelle und ihre Wirkung auf die öffentliche Meinung

Sebastian H. Schneider, Jens Eger, Nora Sassenhagen
Bonn: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) (2021), xxii, 116 pp.
"Die Medieninhaltsanalysen in Kapitel 2 zeigen, dass Entwicklungspolitik absolut und anteilig betrachtet in den Medien nur eine geringe Rolle spielt. Während der ersten Monate der Corona-Pandemie Anfang 2020 ging die Aufmerksamkeit, die TV-Nachrichten und Beiträge in Printmedien auf das Themenfeld ... more
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Periodising the Evolution of Theatre for Development (TfD) and the Development Communication Process in Africa

Samuel Okoronkwo
Academia Letters, issue 3015 (2021), 6 pp.
"The study attempts a periodisation of the evolution of TfD and the development communication process in Africa. The perspective adopted spans within the larger scope of its implications and imperatives, to explore how this noble initiative that was given impetus by both Freire and Boal has develope ... more
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Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit: Umgang mit politischer Information und Kommunikation in digitalen Räumen

Manuel S. Hubacher, Monika Waldis (eds.)
Springer VS (2021), x, 219 pp.
"In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen digitaler politischer Kommunikation auswirken, wie der Politikunterricht ... more
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Report of the Massive Open Online Course on Blended Learning Practice (BLP MOOC 5) Fifth Offering: 7 February – 6 March 2021

Martha Cleveland-Innes, Nathaniel Ostashewski, Daniel Wilton, Carmen Jensen-Tebb
Athabasca University (2021), 32 pp.