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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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Radio Distribution Module South Sudan. Part III: How to Guide

Arcata, Calif.: Internews; USAID (2017), 55 pp.
"[This] guide provides a detailed, step-by-step methodology for conducting a radio distribution, based on Internews’ experience in four HIS project locations: Malakal, Juba (UN House), Bentiu and Bor. The practical application of the guide will be particularly relevant for NGOs, UN agencies, CSOs, ... more
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Spielend lernen! Computerspiele(n) in Schule und Unterricht

Wolfgang Zielinski, Sandra Aßmann, Kai Kaspar, Peter Moormann (eds.)
Düsseldorf; München: kopaed (2017), 198 pp.
"Computerspiele sind Kulturgut. Sie sind etablierte und treibende Kraft gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse in der Freizeitgestaltung und des Medienkonsums zu Unterhaltungszwecken. Aber lassen sich gerade in kommerziellen Spielen – sogenannten off-the-shelf games – auch Bildungspotenziale ... more
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Moving from Information Dissemination to Community Participation in Forest Landscapes: How Development Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Are Using Participatory Development Communication Approaches

Bangkok: Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC); FAO (2017), 64 pp.
"This paper offers a brief overview of the basic and practical steps involved in the participatory development communication (PDC) process to assist sustainable forest practitioners and communication officers to adopt a PDC approach in their work. The paper then reviews the PDC components of six cas ... more
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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.
"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more
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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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Die Spitze des Eisbergs: Spendenwerbung der internationalen Hilfsorganisationen - Kritik und Alternativen

Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD); Glokal e.V. (2017), 35 pp.
"Das berüchtigte Bild des hungernden, nackten, ungeschützten Kindes ist ein Leitmotiv in der humanitären Hilfe, das bis heute kollektive und individuelle Vorstellungswelten im Globalen Norden formt. Die Bilderwelten, die die Krisen im Globalen Süden porträtieren, sind geprägt von einer kolonia ... more
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Controversial Ebola Vaccine Trials in Ghana: A Thematic Analysis of Critiques and Rebuttals in Digital News

Per Egil Kummervold, William S. Schulz, Elizabeth Smout, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Heidi J. Larson
BMC Public Health, volume 17, issue 642 (2017), 24 pp.
"A web-based system was developed to download and analyse news reports relevant to Ebola vaccine trials. This included monitoring major online newspapers in each country with planned clinical trials, including Ghana. All news articles were downloaded, selecting out those containing variants of the w ... more
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Reading the Past, Writing the Future: Fifty Years of Promoting Literacy

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 92 pp.
"Reading the past, writing the future: Fifty years of promoting literacy" takes stock of youth and adult literacy interventions which have been implemented since 1966, when UNESCO held its first International Literacy Day. The publication sheds light on the literacy-related challenges the world is n ... more
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Mapeamento de Rádios Comunitárias na Amazônia como ferramenta ao Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Rosane Albino Steinbrenner
Logos 46, volume 24, issue 1 (2017), pp. 78-92
"O presente artigo apresenta os principais resultados do projeto de pesquisa “Mídia Cidadã e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: mapeamento e análise de rádios comunitárias em áreas de pressão socioambiental na Amazônia”, que busca entender a dimensão e o papel potencial das rádios comunitá ... more
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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters

Jingrong Tong
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 400-418
"This article examines how three Chinese and two British newspapers sourced content from social media in their coverage of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the 2013 Ya'an Earthquake, and the 2015 Tianjin Explosion. The media outlets citing of social media content present different patterns in line with ... 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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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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Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project. Facilitator's Guide

Musola C. Kaseketi, John Chiti, Elaine Maane
Cape Town; Livingstone: Steps; Vilole Images Productions (2017), 12 pp.
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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220
"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more
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Modeling Collective Action Through Media to Promote Social Change and Positive Intergroup Relations in Violent Conflicts

Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Jason Ray David Rarick
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 68 (2017), pp. 200-211
"Does social influence exerted through role modeling of collective action impact social change in contexts that are not conducive to collective action, such as long-lasting violent conflicts? We examined this question in two field experiments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We created t ... more
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Acciones de comunicación de riesgos y movilización comunitaria con respecto a la infección por el virus del Zika

Washington, DC: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS); Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) (2017), 34 pp.
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C4D in Emergency Response

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2017), 4 pp.
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Innovative Strategies for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia: Information and Communication Technology for Education. Special Focus on Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2017), xi, 156 pp.
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Communicating Emergency Preparedness: Practical Strategies for the Public and Private Sectors

Damon P. Coppola, Erin K. Maloney
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2nd ed. (2017), 258 pp.