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WHO Strategic Communications Framework for Effective Communication

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), ii, 52 pp.
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Media coverage of climate change: An international comparison

Ralf Barkemeyer, Frank Figge, Andreas Hoepner, Diane Holt, Johannes Kraak, Pei-Shan Yu
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, volume 35, issue 6 (2017), pp. 1029-1054
"We present an international comparison of broadsheet newspaper coverage of climate change. We employ two complementary theoretical lenses, multiple streams theory and institutional theory, to explore why climate change has become headline news in some countries but has received comparatively little ... more
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Disability Media Studies

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
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Puppetry for Education: Breaking Down Barriers for Inclusive Education

Save the Children (2017), 5 pp.
"This is a case story demonstrating how puppetry was integrated into educational programmes in Myanmar to address disabilities and the importance of an inclusive education." (Publisher description)
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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
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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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Radio Distribution Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews; USAID (2017), 56 pp.
"This Radio Distribution Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience conducting radio distributions within the United Nations Protection of Civilians sites (PoCs) and surrounding communities [...] “Part I. Context” describes th ... more
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15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration

Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.
"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More ... more
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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication

Christopher Ali
Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.
"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple ... more
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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell

Ben Stringer, David Campbell
Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that ... more
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Short-Term WASH Interventions in Emergency Response: A Systematic Review

Travis Yates, Jelena Allen, Myriam Leandre-Joseph, Daniele Lantagne
London: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2017), 260 pp.
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Comunicación, infancia y adolescencia, guía para periodistas: Suicidio

Valeria Román, Celina Abud
Buenos Aires: UNICEF; Red Argentina de Periodismo Científico (2017), 23 pp.
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Utilising Social Media to Support HIV/STI Prevention: Evidence to Inform a Handbook for Public Health Programme Managers

Judit Takács et al.
Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2017), 21 pp.
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Radionovelando: Curso para producir radionovelas emocionantes

Radio Libres; Radioteca; Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados (2017), 47 pp.
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Ungleichheit: Was wir dagegen tun können

Anthony B. Atkinson
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 474 pp.
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Media, Politics, Compassion and Citizenship in the Post-Humanitarian Imaginary

Robin Andersen
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 13-27
"Andersen explores the definition of humanitarian communication, its history, language, visual renderings, and narrative structures. Building on the historical effects of media depictions and their relationship to aid appeals and public response, the chapter engages the concepts of empathy and compa ... more
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Malaria Social and Behavior Change Communication Evidence Literature Review

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs; Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (2017), 36 pp.
"There is a strong evidence base showing that SBCC programs can help improve malaria prevention and treatment behaviors. However, more work needs to be done to ensure that best practices are documented and used consistently. The review provides recommendations for strengthening peer-reviewed researc ... more
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Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: A Systematic Literature Review

Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Angela Nicholas, Maria Ftanou, Jo Robinson, Nicola Reavley
Health Communication, volume 34, issue 4 (2017), pp. 402-414
"Suicide prevention media campaigns are gaining traction as a means of combatting suicide. The current review set out to synthesize information about the effectiveness of these campaigns. We searched four electronic databases for studies that provided evidence on the effectiveness of media campaigns ... more
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A Bigger Splash – Partnering for Impact: Lessons from BBC Media Action’s Work to Improve Maternal and Child Health

Sophia Wilkinson
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 30 pp.
"Drawing on BBC Media Action’s work on maternal and child health with governmental and non-governmental partners in Bangladesh, India and Ethiopia, this paper discusses: the value of these partnerships for successful health communication; the part played by media and communication in wider health ... more
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The Significance of Communication in Emergency Management: What’s Changed Since 2010?

Barbara Ryan
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, volume 32, issue 1 (2017), 31 pp.
"In 2010, Ryan and Matheson (2010) compiled evidence to quantify the importance of communication activities to emergency management. The study involved a comprehensive content analysis of emergency incident and emergency exercise debriefing sessions and reports spanning 2003 to 2008. Six years on, t ... more
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Stylistic Features of Rural Print Media in Ghana

Paul Anyidoho
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 195-213
"Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-lang ... more