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Shamba Shape Up Series 6 - Kenya: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Survey Report

The Media Company (2016), 48 pp.
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Journalistic Narrations for Deliberative Ends: A Country Comparison of Narrative News and its Contribution to the Deliberative Quality of Mediated Debates on Climate Change

Julia Lück
Mannheim: University of Mannheim, Doctoral Thesis (2016), viii, 199 pp.
"The dissertation investigates journalistic news narrations. It aims at assessing their deliberative qualities by applying a quantitative instrument for a content analysis of newspapers that focuses comparatively on climate change coverage in Brazil, Germany, and the United States . Results reveal t ... more
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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture

Evelyne Kiptot, Steven Franzel, Cara Nora, Anne-Marie Steyn
Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS); World Agroforestry Centre (2016), 4 pp.
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Radio as a Tool of Health Education: What Makes for an Effective HIV/AIDS Radio Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Kaitlin Schroeder
Intersect, volume 9, issue 3 (2016), pp. 1-14
"Public health interventions often take the form of media campaigns, which utilize television, radio, and print advertisements to spread awareness and inform the population of risk factors, prevention methods, and treatment options. This paper will focus on HIV/AIDS radio programs in Malawi, Zambia, ... more
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Exploring the Role of Communication in Community Health

Annabelle Wittels
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 48 pp.
"This report draws on two studies: first, a nationally representative quantitative survey, and, second, a qualitative study across three locations in Sierra Leone [...] Ninety-five per cent of research participants reported accessing health information in the previous three months – 93% receiving ... more
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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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Advocacy Campaign for the Rights of People with Disabilities: A Participatory Action Research Within a Community-Based Rehabilitation Project in Maharashtra, India

Atul Jaiswal, Shikha Gupta
Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, volume 27, issue 4 (2016), pp. 76-92
"This paper aimed to demonstrate how participatory action research (PAR) within a Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) project facilitated community participation to advocate for the rights of people with visual impairment. An advocacy campaign, led by the local people with and without disabilities, ... more
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Risk Communication Applied to Food Safety: Handbook

Rome; Geneva: FAO; World Health Organization (WHO) (2016), 87 pp.
"This handbook focuses on practical principles and best practices of risk communication to support risk management of adverse food safety (including quality) events associated with biological, chemical or physical hazards. Food defence and nutritional aspects are outside the scope. Another focus of ... more
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Affirmative Duties: The Institutional and Individual Capabilities Required in Disaster Coverage

Lee Wilkins
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 2 (2016), pp. 216-230
"Most analysis of media coverage of disaster has a normative edge. This paper outlines a philosophical basis for establishing normative standards for news coverage of natural hazards and human-based risk. It begins with a top-down, or system-oriented, epistemological approach to disasters and risk. ... 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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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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Lecciones audiovisuales para ciudadanos y ciudadanas interculturales

Lima: Ministerio de Cultura (2016), 77 pp.
"El proyecto Videoteca de las Culturas de la Dirección de Diversidad Cultural y Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial, prioriza la utilización del medio audiovisual para generar procesos reflexivos y pedagógicos en niños, niñas y adolescentes . El lema del proyecto ‘Desde tus ojos, con tu ... more
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Media as a Form of Aid in Humanitarian Crises

Jeffrey Ghannam
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 6 pp.
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Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz

Milton Álvarez
In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170
"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi ... more
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NUJ Guide to Reporting Poverty

Manchester; Salford: National Union of Journalists (NUJ); Church Action on Poverty (2016), 8 pp.
"The NUJ believes that the development of discriminatory language and the demonisation of the working poor and benefit recipients, through the use of stereotypes and misinformation, is an insult to workers, trade union organisations and readers. The NUJ believes that its members as trade unionists c ... more
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Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation

Fengchun Miao, Sanjaya Mishra, Rory McGreal (eds.)
Paris; Burnaby: UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 231 pp.
"Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the W ... more
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The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa

Philip Keefer, Stuti Khemani
World Bank Economic Review, volume 30, issue 2 (2016), pp. 233-267
"We use a “natural experiment” in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media, in this experiment government agents do not provide greater benefits to citizens whose exposure to c ... more
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Popular Cultural Action, Catholic Transnationalism, and Development in Colombia before Vatican II

Mary Roldán
In: Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II
Julia G. Young, Stephen J. C. Andes (eds.)
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (2016), pp. 245-274
"This chapter examines the history and development of Popular Cultural Action (Acción Cultural Popular, or ACPO), the multipronged project of Christian revitalization, local empowerment, and communitybased development whose radio education network, Radio Sutatenza, founded by a Colombian parish pri ... more
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Albinism, Stigma, Subjectivity and Global-Local Discourses in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco
Anthropology & Medicine, volume 23, issue 3 (2016), pp. 229-243
"Societal ideas and explanations of albinism at the local level in Tanzania are conceived in terms of family history, social relations, economic status, moral-religious positions, global-local flows of information and humanitarian actions on behalf of people with the congenital condition. This paper ... 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.
"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr ... more