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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Guide
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2011), 74 pp.
"This guide sets out approaches and tools for public awareness and public education in disaster risk reduction already widely in use by National Societies. It pulls together a range of research on risk communications and public education for behaviour change, and practitioners’ own discoveries in
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The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters
Journal of International Communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61
"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise
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The Moment is Frozen in Time: Photojournalists’ Metaphors in Describing Trauma Photography
Journal of Constructivist Psychology, volume 23, issue 3 (2010), pp. 231-255
"In describing their understanding of trauma, disaster, and conflict photography, photojournalists in this qualitative study conceptualized abstract experiences using specific types of metaphors. Their metaphors focused on concepts such as violence, bewilderment, and health/affliction. The unique as
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Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 16 pp.
"The traditional disaster-response system employed by relief actors in Haiti concentrated on enabling information-sharing among teams of responders from the international community. This system lacked the ability to aggregate and prioritize data that came from outside sources, making it difficult to
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A Guide to Radio Communications Standards for Emergency Responders
Maputo: UNDP (2010), iv, 56 pp.
"More than 20 million people in Pakistan were affected by the worst floods in the country’s history in late July 2010 [...] The humanitarian response included efforts to inform people about the services available, and communicate with them about accessing these services. It also included efforts t
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100 dessins pour Haiti
Tournai (Belgium): Casterman; Cartooning for Peace (2010), approx. 200 pp.
"Depuis le séisme du 12 janvier 2010, l'aide internationale afflue à Haïti. Passés les premiers secours, c'est maintenant tout un pays qui doit se reconstruire. Un soutien durable est donc nécessaire pour que les Haïtiens puissent retrouver une vie normale. C'est pourquoi les dessinateurs de p
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Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2010), pp. 107-126
"This article offers a trajectory of humanitarian communication, which suggests a clear, though not linear, move from emotion-oriented to post-emotional styles of appealing. Drawing on empirical examples, the article demonstrates that the humanitarian sensibility that arises out of these emerging st
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Disasters, Relief and the Media
Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing (2010), xxxiii, 267 pp.
"In 1993, this was the first book-length study of the representation of disasters in the media and of the marketing methods used by major relief agencies. In the preface to this new paperback edition which reviews the major developments in aid and in the media since the early 1990s, Jonathan Benthal
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Guidelines for the Production of Radio Programmes on Disaster Risk Management
Kathmandu: Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB) (2010), 19 pp.
"There are various risks at the local level. On one hand, Nepal lies on a seismically active zone and has a fragile geological structure and, on the other hand, proper policies, government access to rural and remote places, and public awareness and knowledge are lacking. There is an urgent need for
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Voices of Ethnic Minority Children: Participatory Video on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change in Vietnam
Plan International (2010), 10 pp.
"This booklet documents the participatory video methodology as an affordable and easy-to-use video tool enabling community members to record their experience and strengthen their own knowledge on disaster risks and climate change, as well as to increase their capacity to act on that knowledge and se
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Effective Risk Communication: A Message-Centered Approach
New York: Springer (2009), xi, 185 pp.
"The overlying purpose of this book is to construct a communication based approach to risk communication. In doing so, this book establishes a message-centered focus to risk communication. Section one of the book establishes definitions and parameters of risk communication, identifies the complex au
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New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks
Washington, DC; London: United Nations Foundation; Vodaphone Foundation (2009), 52 pp.
"The report examines how authorities and humanitarian and aid organizations can best balance the opportunities and challenges of exploiting different technologies at the key stages on the timeline of crisis—early warning and preparedness, immediate humanitarian relief, and reconstruction and long-
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Emergency Communications Toolkit
London: International Save the Children Alliance (2009), 91 pp.
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), 242 pp.
"From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader impl
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