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Comunidades en video: Nos ven, los vemos y nos movemos

Rocío Gómez Zúñiga, Julián González Mina, Victoria Valencia Calero
Cali: Universidad del Valle (2020), 216 pp.
"En América Latina y en Colombia existen colectivos, organizaciones sociales y comunidades que, en muchos casos de manera empírica, han hecho de los lenguajes audiovisuales un recurso clave de acción social, política y cultural. Son procesos expresivos y creativos de largo aliento en los que se ... more
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Amazonia – el desafío de comunicar la diversidad. Los casos de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Deep Insights

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 53 pp.
"Hemos constatado que existe una gran diversidad de proyectos organizados por comunicadores locales, muchas veces en alianza con otros actores de la sociedad civil, que están interesados en desarrollar ofertas de información desde y para la Amazonia. En términos generales, las iniciativas más pr ... more
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Key Considerations: Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19

Nadia Butler
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 8 pp.
"This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details various types of online media, key players and influencers on social media, a ... more
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Journalism and the Pandemic: A Global Snapshot of Impacts

Julie Posetti, Emily Bell, Pete Brown
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University (2020), 30 pp.
"Our report demonstrates that journalists are working in a severely pressured financial, physical and psychological environment during the pandemic. This will be the most enduringly difficult professional period many have experienced during their careers. There is the added complication of an inform ... more
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Countering Online Misinformation Resource Pack

Viviane Bianco et al.
UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (2020), 26 pp.
"The pack provides easy access to various types of resources (tools, reports, toolkits, journal articles, etc.) that can support the development of tactics and plans to counter misinformation. The pack also provides a summary of what the research indicates as potential solutions to tackle misinforma ... more
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Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

Tabitha Hrynick, Santiago Ripoll, Megan Schmidt-Sane
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 18 pp.
"This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is more complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties – not just, or even primarily, exposure to misinformation or anti-vaccine campaigners. Based ... more
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Tip Sheet on Maintaining Confidential Digital Dialogue During Humanitarian Emergencies

Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020), 5 pp.
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Global Rumour Bulletin

Internews (2020), 10 pp.
"For the last 6 months, the Internews' Rooted in Trust project has collected more than 5,238 rumours from seven countries: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Philippines, Colombia, Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan. We work in 12 local languages and collect data across seven major social media platforms a ... more
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Évaluation des capacités de communication des risques et d’engagement communautaire en Guinée

S. O. Sagnane, Jean Traoré
Washinghton: Breakthrough Action; USAID (2020), 51 pp.
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Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975-2010

James M. Scott, Charles M. Rowling, Timothy M. Jones
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 373-396
"Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization. ... more
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Behavioral Sentinel Surveillance Survey in Nigeria

Washington, DC: Population Council (2020), VIII, 173 pp.
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Media Representation of Environmental Issues in Malaysia

Mohamad Saifun Mohamed Saleh
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 26, issue 2 (2020), pp. 118-131
"This research investigates the types of environmental issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and Environmental Non-Government Organisation (ENGO) newsletters and examines the factors in the selection of stories by both social actors. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 2050 environ ... more
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Data Visualization in Society
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Helen Kennedy, Martin Engbretsen (eds.)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 464 pp.
"This book is a contribution to the multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Do data visualizations do 'good' or 'bad'? Do they promote understanding and engagement, or do they do ideological work, privileging certain vie ... more
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Disability: Out in the Open. A Handbook for Civil Society Organisations Seeking to Promote the Best Interests of Disabled People
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Mike Jempson (comp.)
Media Diversity Institute; Macedonian Institute for Media; National Council of Persons with Disability Organizations of Macedonia (NSIOM) (2020), 78 pp.
"This handbook aims at helping Macedonian CSOs that work with people with disabilities to deal with some of the challenges they face on daily basis: the absence of quality reporting on people with disabilities; the perception of people with disabilities which is often burdened with negative stereoty ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism

David B. Sachsman, JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp.
"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o ... more
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Klimaschutz durch digitale Technologien – Chancen und Risiken: Kurzstudie

Jan Bieser, Ralph Hintemann, Severin Beucker, Stefanie Schramm, Lorenz Hilty
Berlin: Bitkom Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (2020), 58 pp.
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Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones

Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Margee Ensign
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxvi, 219 pp.
"This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile technologies to improve educational outcomes for over 20,000 displaced and out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs typically interact with a func ... more
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ITU guidelines for national emergency telecommunication plans

Juan Manuel Roldan, Felipe Ordoñez
Geneva: ITU (2020), v, 95 pp.
"The effective management of the risk of disasters depends on communication and information sharing across all levels of government, within communities, and between public and private organizations. In particular, timely and effective information flow is important for early warning and alerting the ... more
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Memoria anual 2019

Sucre: ACLO (2020), 88 pp.
"Las acciones descritas corresponden al primer año del PEI 2019 - 2021, que pone énfasis en cambios en la vida de las personas con quienes hemos desarrollado diferentes acciones alineadas a los cinco desafíos. Al inicio se describe el contexto en el que se han desarrollado las acciones. Luego se ... 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