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Handbook of Climate Change Communication. Vol. 3: Case Studies in Climate Change Communication
Cham: Springer (2018), xiv, 398 pp.
"This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses no
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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia
Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.
"This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of cont
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"According to Gartner IT Glossary (2012), "identity and access management (lAM) is the security discipline that enabled the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons." Simply put, it is making sure your users are who they say they are and only have acce
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Storytelling in Organizations: A New Approach to Change, Brand, Project and Knowledge Management
Berlin: Springer (2018), xi, 119 pp.
"This book highlights storytelling as a concrete and viable method which can be used in various operational fields in organizations: from change management to project management and knowledge management, it presents employees’ stories on past projects and the diverse, essential aspects of corporat
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Community Radio in Ethiopia: A Discourse of Peace and Conflict Reporting
"In the states, like Ethiopia, where internal conflicts, mainly ethnic conflicts, have currently been appearing in many parts, a medium that deals with those issues appropriately is vital. Among the three main media branches, such as public service, commercial, and community radio, the later can be
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Digital Media in Education: Teaching, Learning and Literacy Practices with Young Learners
Cham: Springer (2018), xi, 322 pp.
"This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production. It proposes a vision of literacy that combines new technologies with multiple modes of meaning-making. Drawing on theories related to cultural studies, media li
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Digital Stories as Data
"This chapter describes how digital storytelling can be used as a method for data collection. The author’s dissertation study is used to demonstrate the practical application of this method." (Abstract)
Crowdfunding Movies: A Business Model Analysis from Strategic Management Studies
In: Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation
Cham: Springer (2018), pp. 635-656
"A crowdfunding platform for movies is an alternative way of refunding movie production costs. Usually, such platform combines several types of funding, including sourcing the Internet community to gather small private donations, that is, a revenue stream which is typically named “crowdfunding”.
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Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation
Cham: Springer (2018), xxx, 666 pp.
"This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry
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Sinai People’s Perceptions of Self-Image Portrayed by the Egyptian Media: A Multidimensional Approach
"This chapter sought to analyze the portrayals of Sinai people in the Egyptian media as it pertains to the people themselves. It started by giving the reader an overview of the current Sinai’s social, security, and economic status quo and structures. Then, it examined how image building could be o
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Handbook of Climate Change Communication. Vol. 2: Practice of Climate Change Communication
Cham: Springer (2018), xv, 419 pp.
"This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses no
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Online Activism in Politically Restricted Central Asia: A Comparative Review of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Singapore: Springer (2018), pp. 961-976
"This comparative study examined the Internet’s role and wider social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, three Central Asian countries in the democratization process. Specifically, this work aims to discuss how the Internet and social media are allowing Internet users wider opportuni
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The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change
"Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was the father of critical pedagogy, popular education, and participatory action research (PAR), as well as a basic reference of liberation theology and of Latin American critical theory and a precursor of the epistemologies of the south. His main work, Pedagogy of the Op
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A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Communication of SME Support: An Exploratory Qualitative Study in Turkmenistan
"Certain researchers call to reconsider Communication for development and social change as a problem of “Techniques and Society” (McArthur, Jouët, Bardini, Lohento, Kiyindou, Missé). Thus, the models of social integration of innovations are used here to study how the new development assistance
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Social Media and Elderly People: Research Trends
In: SCSM 2017: Social Computing and Social Media. Applications and Analytics. Part II, LNCS 10283
Cham: Springer (2017), pp. 65-81
"This paper reports the result of a systematic literature review in the field of social media and the elderly. Our study included 36 research papers, selected after an iterative process. Elders are the fastest growing population around the world and any effort oriented to improve their quality of li
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New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
Political Communication in Africa
Cham: Springer (2017), xv, 246 pp.
"This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa. In light of the growing number of African states now turning towards democratic rule, as well as the growing utilization of information technologies in Africa, the contributors examine topic
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Violence against journalists: Suppressing media freedom
"Freedom of expression is a basic human right that is crucial for respectable governance, human dignity and the application of the rule of law. However, due to the circumstances we are currently facing that include the increase in the rate of violence and crimes, it is seriously essential to provide
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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies
Dordrecht: Springer (2017), vi, 247 pp.
"This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but als
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