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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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An Assessment of Malawi Media in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of Cyclone Idai

Mwayi Chipambali (comp.)
Harare: UNESCO; Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) (2021), 32 pp.
"A number of issues have been raised in this report that will help the media to improve on service delivery in disaster-related issues and to be prepared in disaster management. Not only the media has vowed to improve but also government institutions, humanitarian response organizations and media st ... more
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Scaling Up Growth: Addressing Stunting in Tanzania Early (ASTUTE). Final Evaluation Report

IMA World Health; Development Media International; UKAID (2021), 31 pp.
"This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the ASTUTE media campaign. Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted before, during, and at the end of the campaign, with questions targeted to female caregivers and male heads of households when they were available. The impact of the camp ... more
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Communication, Culture and Social Change: Meaning, Co-Option and Resistance

Mohan Dutta
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 395 pp.
"Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting ... more
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Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies

Jacob Johanssen, Diana Garrisi (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2020), 197 pp.
"Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and ... more
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Media Innovation and Social Change

Journal of Media Innovations, volume 6, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-108
"Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises f ... more
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Publishers and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Åsfrid Hegdal
International Publishers Association (IPA); Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 100 pp.
"This report highlights publishers’ activities and progress that relate to each of the 17 SDG goals. In some cases, these activities are core to what publishers do best, for example ensuring quality education. For other goals, such as clean water, the activities may be more indirect, and this repo ... more
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Real-Time Rumor Tracking for COVID-19: System Design and Implementation Guide

Breakthrough Action; USAID (2020), 27 pp.
"This document is written for humanitarian or public health organizations as well as national governments seeking to document rumors in a systematic and dynamic fashion. First, the document provides an overview of the role of rumors in a public health or humanitarian emergency, followed by a summary ... more
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Creating Change Through Digital Communities: How RNW Media's Digital Platforms Impact Young People's Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour

Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 34 pp.
"The Theories of Change for both Citizens’ Voice [a programme focusing on social cohesion and inclusive governance] and the SRHR programme (which includes Love Matters [delivering information and media on love, sex and relationships to 18-30-year-olds]) contain a key assumption that through provid ... more
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Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation

J. Scott Brennen, Felix M. Simon, Philip N. Howard, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 13 pp.
"In this RISJ factsheet we identify some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation seen so far. We analyse a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by factcheckers and published in English between January and the end of March 2020, drawn from a colle ... more
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A Framework for Assessing Success of National CCE Platforms

CDAC Network; Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 14 pp.
"This framework lays out the multiple elements needed to successfully build and assess the performance of a national Communications and Community Engagement (CCE) Platform. These Platforms enable a broad range of government and disaster response organisations to implement coordinated communication a ... more
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Los desafíos de la cobertura ambiental en tiempos de crisis
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Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), volume 144 (2020), pp. 11-238
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La pobreza y el discurso de los mass media: Un estudio de la prensa local argentina

María del Rosario Sánchez, Silvia London
Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación (Sevilla), issue 49 (2020), pp. 136-157
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est ... more
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Risk Communication Involving Vulnerable Populations: An Annotated Bibliography

Nnenia Campbell, Kamryn Roper-Fetter, Mary Yoder
Boulder, Col.: University of Colorado Boulder, Natural Hazards Center (2020), 48 pp.
"This document is intended to be used as a resource bibliography for in-depth reading about risk communication best practices. It summarizes academic research and practical guidance on the topic of hazards and disaster risk communication, with a particular focus on socially vulnerable populations. I ... more
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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Sierra Leone

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.
"Sierra Leone continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the dissemination of information across various platforms. The media have generally been supportive in providing the public with information and education about COVID-19. However, media owners and managers continue to raise concerns ... more
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The ‘changing’ Face of Media Discourses on Poverty in the Age of Populism and Anti-Globalisation: The Political Appeal of Anti-Modernity and Certainty in Brazil

Jairo Lugo-Ocando
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-116
"This article analyses how the political right in parts of the Global South has appropriate agendas and issues that in the past were often associated to the political left and presented them instead as their own. It does so by articulating narratives around poverty and social exclusion in the contex ... more
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Communication for Development (C4D): Advancing Positive Social and Behaviour Change. Supplement to the Global Annual Results Reports 2019

New York: UNICEF (2020), 50 pp.
"This supplement to the 2019 Global Annual Results Reports highlights achievements over the past year which illustrate concrete ways in which C4D approaches strengthen UNICEF programming. The report also highlights challenges identified and immediate priorities to address them. C4D contributes to ad ... more
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Zum ersten Mal in Bangladesch: Influencer können Entwicklungsorganisationen helfen, junge Menschen zu erreichen. Aber bei der Zusammenarbeit kann einiges schiefgehen

Sebastian Drescher
welt-sichten, November (2020)
"Meine Reise in die Slums von Bangladesch“ heißt ein Video, das Julien Bam im Mai 2019 auf Youtube veröffentlicht. Julien Bam ist mit mehr als fünf Millionen Followern einer der erfolgreichsten deutschen Influencer. Seine aufwändig produzierten Clips sind meist laut und albern, er singt und ta ... more
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Bolivia, COVID-19: Cómo pasamos la pandemia y qué nos depara el futuro

Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS); Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) (2020), 42 pp.
"En el área rural, se ratifica la predominancia de la radio sobre los otros medios (59% escucha siempre o casi siempre), seguido muy de cerca de la televisión (56% mira televisión) y luego los medios digitales, el Facebook (41% se conecta) es más reconocido como un medio de información que el W ... more
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Radio and Pandemics. COVID-19 in East Africa: How Community and Vernacular Radio Are Influencing Social and Behaviour Change

Daniel Ominde Okoth
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 23 pp.