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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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The Advantages and Limits of a “full-Spectrum” Approach to Communication for Development (C4D)

Karen Greiner
Journal of Development Communication, volume 28, issue 1-2 (2017), pp. 80-87
"This Viewpoint essay is dedicated to communication practitioners across theglobe, and to my former doctoral-student self, who once-upon-a-time sought clear definitions and descriptions of communication for development (C4D), but found clarity only after consulting multiple resources. I never found ... more
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Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

Nicole K. Eberhart, Jennifer L. Cerully, Amy L. Shearer, Sandra H. Berry, M. Audrey Burnam, Patricia A. Ebener
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2017), ix, 81 pp.
"The goal of this handbook is to provide guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention (PEI) programs. In the course of developing an evaluation plan for a series of PEI programs implemented statewide by the California Mental Hea ... more
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How to Use Social Media to Better Engage People Affected by Crisis: A Brief Guide for Those Using Social Media in Humanitarian Organizations

Timo Lüge
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2017), 24 pp.
"This brief guide provides practical tips and advice on how to use social media effectively to engage with, and be accountable to, affected people. It is primarily for staff who are responsible for the official social media channels in their organization. Related topics, such as social media marketi ... more
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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture

Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.
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Entertainment-Education and Health and Risk Messaging
Deep Insights

Suruchi Sood, Amy Henderson Riley, Kristine Cecile Alarcon
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Communication
Oxford University Press (2017), 42 pp.
"Entertainment-education (EE) began as a communication approach that uses both entertainment and education to engender individual and social change, but is emerging as a distinct theoretical, practice, and evidence-based communication subdiscipline. EE has roots in oral and performing arts tradition ... more
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?

Suzanne Franks
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 189-199
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa ... more
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Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere

Niamh Gaynor, Anne O'Brien
Irish Journal of Sociology, volume 25, issue 1 (2017), pp. 29-47
"In this article, which draws on a detailed study of four community radio stations, we have highlighted a number of elements of community radio which contribute towards a democratisation of the public sphere as envisaged by Habermas and his followers. However, we have argued that democratic particip ... more
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Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies: A WHO Guideline for Emergency Risk Communication (ERC) Policy and Practice

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), xi, 57 pp.
"The recommendations in these guidelines provide overarching, evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practised in an emergency. The recommendations also guide countries on building capacity for communicating risk during health emergencies. Specific step-by-step instructions are ... more
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Media and Global Climate Knowledge: Journalism and the IPCC

Risto Kunelius, Elisabeth Eide, Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin (eds.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xx, 309 pp.
"This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key elem ... more
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Radio as an Educational Tool in Developing Countries: Its Evolution and Current Usages

Bhaskar Sarmah, Sukmaya Lama
International Conference on Developmental Interventions and Open Learning for Empowering and Transforming Society (2017), 14 pp.
"This paper makes an attempt to trace the evolution and growth of radio as a tool of education, particularly distance education in the developing countries. Apart from that, the paper also makes an attempt to outline the content of the Radio programmes across these countries of the world. Last, but ... more
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more
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Environmental News in South America: Conflict, Crisis and Contestation

Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 168 pp.
"Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, ... more
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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Jalal Shah
Internews (2017), 5 pp.
"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w ... more
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Mapear la salud: Una propuesta de comunicación participativa y educación sanitaria

Buenos Aires: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2017), 116 pp.
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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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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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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

Heather McIntosh
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
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Evaluating the Use of Communication for Development in Conflict Interventions: Measuring Peace in Participatory Communication

Valentina Baú
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 96-112
"The application of Communication for Development (C4D) in conflict prevention, conflict reduction and post-conflict reconstruction interventions is a relatively new field. International organisations that have begun to adopt new communication & media designs in their peace work are progressively of ... more
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The Political Economy of Climate Change Reporting in Nigeria

nnaEmeka Meribe
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 40-65
"While scholarly inquiries into the coverage of climate change in Africa are growing, there appears to be a dearth of studies focusing on how the political economy shapes the coverage. This qualitative study addresses this gap by exploring how vested interests, corruption and declining advertising r ... more