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Prove It: An Audience Research Tool for Community Radio Stations

Radio Regen (2016), 55 pp.
"The Prove It toolkit is a resource for community radio stations to enable them to conduct their own audience research. It provides stations with the information and expertise to both measure their audience listener figures and assess the impact that they are having on their community of listeners." ... more
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Remembering While Forgetting: How Young Czechs Grow Into Collective Memory

Tomás Karger, Jan Kalenda
[authors] (2016), 7 pp.
"This study is focused on the modalities of transmission of knowledge related to historical events. It focuses on a generation of young Czechs in the age of 12 – 25 years. The data were gathered during 11 focus groups that took place with students on each of the three levels of Czech formal educat ... more
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Exploring the Potential for Interactive Radio to Improve Accountability and Responsiveness to Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania

Heather Gilberds et al.
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 36 pp.
"The research examines the possibilities of new digital technologies along with radio to facilitate adaptive management processes through rapid feedback to help ensure that agricultural development projects are farmer-centered, and meet the needs of those they intend to serve. Grounded in assessing ... more
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WINning Strategies: Creating Stronger News Media Organizations by Increasing Gender Diversity

Michelle Foster, Sheila Gibbons
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2016), 57 pp.
"The handbook seeks to shine a spotlight on media organisations that have prioritized gender equality within their organizations, leadership teams, and within their audience, and as a result, have seen a positive return. At best, we hope these stories inspire media to take concrete action to priorit ... more
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The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxiv, 269 pp.
" This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics examined here include poverty in the media in Britain and Tur ... more
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We’re Still Listening: A Survey of the Media Landscape in the Accessible Areas of South Sudan in 2015

Internews; Forcier Consulting; USAID (2016), xv, 178 pp.
"There are a sizeable number of people who have never had access to any form of media or device. Roughly one in three (34%) respondents have never had access to radio, television, newspapers, internet, or mobile phones. Furthermore, media is less accessible for women than it is for men. It is more c ... more
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Radio, Politics and Trust in Afghanistan: A Social History of Broadcasting

Andrew Skuse
International Communication Gazette, volume 64, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-279
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Seminar Combating Sexist Hate Speech. Report, 10-12 February 2016, European Youth Centre, Strasbourg

Council of Europe (2016), 51 pp.
"The Council of Europe Seminar, Combating Sexist Hate Speech, brought together a group of around 60 participants, including human rights and women’s rights activists, youth leaders, journalists and policy makers to challenge sexist hate speech, its causes, forms and consequences, and to propose so ... more
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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)
Bangkok: FAO; LIRNEasia; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.
"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more
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Llegó aquí la palabra: La cosmovisión Maya, viva y difundida a través de los medios de comunicación comunitarios

Amalia Jiménez Galán, Sandoval, Ricardo, Carlos Humberto Chicol Muj et al.
Fundación Comunicándonos; Voces; AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2016), 104 pp.
"[...] en el 2010 comenzamos un proceso inolvidable. Esta publicación es fruto del proceso de inter-aprendizaje que comunicadoras y comunicadores de la Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias en Guatemala sostuvimos durante más de dos años con ajq’ijab’ (esto es, contadores del tiempo, gu ... more
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Media Consumption Survey - Ukraine 2016

Internews (2016), 42 pp.
"The Internews annual media consumption survey shows more Ukrainians searching for news online and fewer getting their news from television. Trust in Ukrainian online media is also up, matching the trend in greater consumption. The survey also shows that Ukrainians are consuming Russian media far le ... more
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Miradas propias: Pueblos indígenas, comunicación y medios en la sociedad global

Claudia Magallanes Blanco, José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez (coord.)
San Andrés de Cholula, Puebla, México; Quito: Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla; CIESPAL; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2016), 251 pp.
"El libro de Claudia Magallanes y José Manuel Ramos es fundamental para el debate sobre medios de comunicación indígena. Contiene el aporte colectivo de once capítulos, en los cuales autores de diferentes comunidades académicas ensayan nuevas perspectivas metodológicas de investigación. El te ... more
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Persuasive Communication

James Brian Stiff, Paul A. Mongeau
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2016), xvi, 383 pp.
"Providing an accessible integration of theory and research methods, this text prepares students to critically analyze persuasive appeals and to design effective messages and campaigns. The book draws on key ideas from both communication and social psychology to explore the mutual influence of cogni ... more
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Oral History Theory

Lynn Abrams
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2016), xi, 238 pp.
"Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format. The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities ... 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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Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism. MILID Yearbook 2016

Jagtar Singh, Paulette Kerr, Esther Hamburger (eds.)
Paris: UNESCO (2016), 314 pp.
"The book is divided into five sections: 1. Community Empowerment and Sustainable Development; 2. Hate speech and Incitement; 3. Radicalization and Extremism; 4. Human Rights and Gender Equality; 5. Inter-religious and Intercultural Discourses in the media. Articles submitted are linked to one of th ... more
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Stadt der Verlorenen: Leben im größten Flüchtlingslager der Welt

Ben Rawlence
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 409 pp.
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Informationen fürs Leben: BR-Studie zum Vertrauen in die Medien

München: Bayerischer Rundfunk (2016), 37 pp.
"Das große – inhaltlich aber sehr diffuse – Misstrauen der „Zweifler“ gegenüber etablierten Medien ist vermutlich nur die Spitze des Eisbergs für ein grundsätzliches Dilemma, vor dem Medienanbieter stehen: Ein allgemeines Unbehagen gegenüber Politik, Wirtschaft und anderen gesellschaftl ... more
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Indigenous Social Media Practices in Southwestern Amazonia

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
AlterNative: An International Journal, volume 11, issue 4 (2016), pp. 350-362
"This article discusses how the use of social media fosters, motivates, and regulates social relations among the Arawakan- and Panoan- speaking indigenous groups in the state of Acre and the southern part of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, where even the smallest towns have recently received highspee ... more
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Schlüsselwerke der Medienwirkungsforschung

Matthias Potthoff (ed.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), xii, 328 pp.