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Preventing Violent Extremism Through Promoting Inclusive Development, Tolerance and Respect for Diversity: A Development Response to Addressing Radicalization and Violent Extremism
New York: UNDP (2016), 39 pp.
"Development practice has a critical role in providing the foundation for preventing violent extremism. UNDP’s conceptual framework proposes eleven interlinked building blocks for a theory of change explaining how development can help prevent violent extremism. These building blocks, which will in
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Projeto radiophone: Manual
Curitiba: Associação Radiodifusão Paraná (AERP) (2016), 17 pp.
"De acordo com a Pesquisa Brasileira de Mídia (PBM 2015), o uso do rádio tradicional caiu na comparação com 2014, de 61% para 55%. Cada vez mais, o telefone celular assume papel preponderante como meio para ouvir o rádio. 8% dos entrevistados disseram ouvir rádio no celular, mesmo percentual d
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Rebuilding Public Trust: An Assessment of the Media Industry and Profession in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Secretariat for Media Reforms; International Media Support (IMS) (2016), xvii, 262 pp.
"This report, produced by a participatory research process that took over a year, provides a comprehensive assessment of the environment for media sector’s development in Sri Lanka. It is based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicator (MDI) framework, which looks at the diferent factors which sho
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Measuring the Business Side: Indicators to Assess Media Viability
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 10 pp.
"In times of digital transformation media all over the world have to come up with new ways to ensure their survival. Meanwhile, media development actors are searching for new concepts and orientation in their support of media organizations and media markets. This paper presents DW Akademie’s sugge
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Coming of Age: Communication’s Role in Powering Global Health
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 31 pp.
"Through a careful review of the evidence, this briefing offers a spirited case for why donors, practitioners and developing country governments need to pay more attention to the role of communication in tackling global health. The briefing finds that: Communication has been central to public health
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Apropiarse de las redes para fortalecer la palabra: Una introducción al activismo digital de lenguas indígenas en América Latina
Leiden: Global Voices (2016), 35 pp.
"Del análisis de los quince estudios de caso se desprende un complejo retrato del trabajo que encabezan actores indígenas y no indígenas para que los idiomas nativos del continente ganen espacios y se visibilicen en la esfera digital. El estudio muestra que las formas de hacer activismo digital d
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Croatia: Media Freedom in Turbulent Times: Report on the June 2016 Joint International Mission
Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2016), 25 pp.
"Incidents of physical violence and – worse still – impunity for those who commit such acts continue in Croatia, an unacceptable situation for an EU member state. On the other, legal provisions such as the country’s criminal defamation and shaming laws have been abused to punish investigative
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Anti-Blasphemy Offensives in the Digital Age: When Hardliners Take Over
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2016), 31 pp.
El Indicador de la Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM): Medir para transformar
CIC: Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, volume 21 (2016), pp. 47-62
"El presente artículo aborda la construcción del Índice de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM), que pretende recoger valores ligados al funcionamiento de los medios audiovisuales, eludiendo la visión mercantilista, potenciando la participación ciudadana y la transparencia en su gesti
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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up
Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13
"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communication and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the recon
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Bring Back the Audience: A Discussion of the Lack of Audience Research in the Field of Media Development
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 2 (2016), 7 pp.
"This paper strives to highlight the significant lack of audience research in the field of media development and the consequences of this gap – both for project design and policy making – but also for broader efforts to integrate media into governance debates. Whilst this lack of evidence has be
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Digital Access in Africa
Farnham (UK): Caribou Digital Publishing (2016), 60 pp.
"The mobile industry has, for the past 15 years or so, done a phenomenal job of connecting users in emerging markets to voice, SMS and Internet access services. But as we strive to reach the remaining unconnected users, we may need new models of connectivity to reach them. In the first section of th
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Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2016), x, 123 pp.
"With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfusca
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Assessment of the Media Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina
USAID (2016), 59 pp.
"The purpose of this assessment is to compile a general portrait of the media landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in order to determine the broad status of reforms and needs in the media sector and make recommendations for potential further USAID involvement in the sector. The assessment team
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"They Can Arrest You at Any Time": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Burma
Human Rights Watch (2016), 87 pp.
"Focusing largely on the period since retired general Thein Sein assumed the presidency in 2011, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Processions Act, the Telecommunications Act, the News Media Law, the Electronic Transactions Act, and various Penal Code pro
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Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar: Based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators
Bangkok; Copenhagen: UNESCO; International Media Support (IMS) (2016), xxvii, 132 pp.
"Myanmar should sign and ratify international treaties which pertain to freedom of expression, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the (first) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimina
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Safeguarding Human Rights on the Net
Council of Europe (2016), 6 pp.
"Revelations on mass online surveillance and regular reports on abuses of the rights to privacy and free expression clearly show the need to effectively protect human rights on the net. The Council of Europe works with governments, the private sector, civil society and other actors to shape the Inte
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Media as a Form of Aid in Humanitarian Crises
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 6 pp.
Stifling Dissent: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in India
Human Rights Watch (2016), 117 pp.
"This report details how the criminal law is used to limit peaceful expression in India. It documents examples of the ways in which vague or overbroad laws are used to stifle political dissent, harass journalists, restrict activities by nongovernmental organizations, arbitrarily block Internet sites
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