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Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space

Michael Dokyum Kim, Karin Gwinn Wilkins
Journal of International Communication, volume 27, issue 2 (2017), pp. 192-214
"Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation ... more
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Improving Data on Missing Migrants

Frank Laczko, Ann Singleton, Julia Black (eds.)
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2017), xiv, 117 pp.
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Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

Irene Bruna Seu, Shani Orgad (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 165 pp.
"Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achi ... more
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Understanding Information & Communication Needs: A Study with Disaster Prone Communities in Riverine and Coastal Areas

Network for Information, Response And Preparedness Activities on Disaster (NIRAPAD) (2017), 44 pp.
"Critical gaps in the exchange of humanitarian information include:i) the range of humanitarian messages currently disseminated meets only a part of the communities’ needs [in riverine and coastal areas of Bangladesh], ii) certain messages are ambiguous and people get very limited guidance on how ... more
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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Deep Insights

FHI 360; Rockefeller Foundation (2017), 103 pp.
"This inventory was developed by FHI 360, with grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, to support resilience practitioners and the broader development community to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. It was primarily popu ... more
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

Adam Fish
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and ... more
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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen
London; New York: Routledge (2017), ix, 178 pp.
"Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdevelo ... more
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These Photos Were My Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects

Tiffany Fairey
Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2017), pp. 618-636
"This article analyses the impact of participatory photography as a tool for community development. In recent decades, participatory arts and media initiatives are increasingly agency - rather than community-led, their value assessed using linear evaluative models and framed in terms of short-term, ... more
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Plan national de communication du secteur eau, assainissement et hygiene

Ministère de l' Eau, de l' Energie et des Hydrocarbures (2017), 45 pp.
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Building an Ecosystem Around Data: Using Interactive Radio for Accountability to Farmers in Tanzania

Francesca Feruglio, Heather Gilberds
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Farm Radio International (2017), 15 pp.
"In 2015, Farm Radio International applied to Making All Voices Count for a practitioner research and learning grant. Farm Radio International (FRI) is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organisation working in direct partnership with approximately 600 radio broadcasters in 38 African countries to figh ... more
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NGO Interpretation of Participatory Communication for Rural Cambodia: What is Lost in ‘translation’?

Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Journal of International Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2017), pp. 231-251
"Although the participatory communication is widely embraced by development agencies, few published studies critically examine how local NGOs interpret and implement the approach at the village level. This article analyses a Cambodian NGO’s attempts to engage grassroots involvement against key ten ... more
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Terminal Evaluation of “The Partnership for Behavior and Social Change in Yemen” Project in Taiz and Hodeidah

Sadeq Noman Al-Nabhani
UNICEF; Search for Common Ground (2017), 80 pp.
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The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Crisis

Piers Robinson
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 528-535
"Piers Robinson revisits the debates over what has been called the "CNN effect," a term that assumes media coverage of crises invariably leads to instigating humanitarian responses. While many claimed that interventions during humanitarian crises were influenced by media reporting of suffering peopl ... more
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more
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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change

Rafael Obregón, Thomas Tufte
Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645
"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh ... more
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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India

Amaia Landaburu
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77
"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios ... more
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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan
Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15
"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more
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The Next Ronald Reagan? Celebrity, Social Entrepreneurism, and the Case of Brazilian TV Host Luciano Huck

Bruno Campanella
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 397-406
"Taking the participation in social and humanitarian campaigns of TV host and social entrepreneur Luciano Huck as a case in point, this chapter investigates how new models of celebrity civic engagement are becoming increasingly popular in Brazil. Huck belongs to a growing group of Brazilian celebrit ... more
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Pathways to Accountability from the Margins: Reflections on Participatory Video Practice

Jackie Shaw
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 47 pp.
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'

Aghogho Akpome
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r ... more