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Interactive Radio’s Promising Role in Climate Information Services

Kevin Perkins, Sheila Huggins-Rao et al.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (2016), 29 pp.
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Boda Boda Talk Talk Learning Collection: Context and Case Studies

Internews (2016), 46 pp.
"Internews has launched a three-part learning module on Boda Boda Talk Talk, the hyperlocal humanitarian information service currently operational in four United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites (PoCs) across the country. Part I of the module focuses on the theory and rationale behind a communi ... more
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Communications, Knowledge Management, and Media Strategy

UN-REDD (2016), 39 pp.
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We’ve Raised Their Voice. Is Anyone Listening? Participatory Video Practitioners and Valued Citizen Voice in International Development Contexts

Tamara Plush
University of Queensland, Doctoral Thesis (2016), xviii, 259 pp.
"This thesis offers a study on the nuanced understandings of and the interplay between participatory video (PV), citizen voice and international development. The study investigates contemporary PV practitioners’ conceptualisations of the phenomenon of using PV to raise citizen voice in internation ... more
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Trends in Risk Communication Policies and Practices

Paris: OECD (2016), 87 pp.
"Good risk communication is crucial for raising awareness among citizens and business about the risks their countries face. However, many countries have seen their risk communication tools fail in the past, leading to persistently low levels of risk awareness, especially in the absence of recent dis ... more
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Social Media Strategy Development: A Guide to Using Social Media for Public Health Communication

Stockholm: ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016), iv, 44 pp.
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The IFRC and Community Resilience: Communication Guidance for National Societies

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2016), 25 pp.
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Communication, Development, and Social Change in Spain: A Field Between Institutionalization and Implosion

Víctor Manuel Marí Sáez
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 5 (2016), pp. 469-486
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Big Crisis Data

Carlos Castillo
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), 224 pp.
"Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds human capacity to process. Emergency managers ... more
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Harnessing the Potential of ICTs: Literacy and Numeracy Programmes Using Radio, TV, Mobile Phones, Tablets and Computers. Case Studies from the UNESCO Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices Database (LitBase)
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Ulrike Hanemann, Cassandra Scarpino (eds.)
Hamburg: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2nd ed. (2016), 159 pp.
"This publication provides a selection of literacy programmes that use radio, TV, mobile phones, tablets and computers to support the development of literacy, numeracy and language skills. Due to continuous demand, the second edition of the publication has been updated with new case studies. All pro ... more
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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks

Tom McDonald
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien ... more
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Online-Trainings und Webinare: Von der Vermarktung bis zur Nachbereitung

Silvia Luber, Inga Geisler
Weinheim; Basel: Beltz (2016), 227 pp.
"Der virtuelle Klassenraum hat sich als interaktives Medium für synchrone Online-Trainings bewährt. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie solche »Live Online Trainings« geplant und Schritt für Schritt umgesetzt werden: von der technischen Installation über Fragen zur IT-Sicherheit bis zur Aufbereitung eines ... more
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Open Mic Nepal: Tracking Rumors in Post-Earthquake Nepal

Internews (2016), 13 pp.
"In July 2015, Internews launched Open Mic Nepal, a project designed to track and debunk rumors in the earthquake-afected communities. Based on previous pilots of this approach in Gaza and Liberia, the project set out to assess and address information needs by using minimally structured qualitative ... more
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Terminaux et environnements numériques mobiles dans l'espace francophone

Alain Kiyindou, Étienne Damome (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 240 pp.
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Klima 101: A Climate Change Guidebook for Philippine Journalists

Imelda Visaya-Abano, Rex L. Navarro, Rosa T. Perez
Frederiksberg (DK): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (2016), 85 pp.
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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks

Andrew Moore, Neil Butcher
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.
"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open ... more
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Audiences and Disasters: Analyses of Media Diaries Before and After an Earthquake and a Massive Fire

Teresa Correa, Andres Scherman, Arturo Arriagada
Journal of Communication, volume 66, issue 4 (2016), pp. 519-541
"Media diaries of 36 Chilean adults were being collected as two disasters unfolded: an earthquake on the northern coast and 11 days later a massive fire in Valparaiso. From an audience reception theoretical approach, these events provide a unique opportunity to compare people's engagement with media ... more
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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change

Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.
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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

Lisa Ann Richey (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.
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South Sudan: Communication with Communities - Gaps and Needs Analysis. Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Program, Baseline Study

Forcier Consulting; Internews; USAID (2016), vi, 52 pp.
"The Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP), established by the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) Network, focuses on establishing accountability on the part of emergency response actors in South Sudan to the affected population they serve. This baseline addresses ... more