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Family Planning and Youth in West Africa: Mass Media, Digital Media, and Social and Behavior Change Communication Strategies. Literature Review
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Population Council (2019), 42 pp.
"This review presents evidence about the impact of mass media and digital media on young people’s family planning (FP) attitudes and behaviors. It primarily focuses on the Ouagadougou Partnership countries, but also describes lessons learned from other initiatives implemented more widely in Africa
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Rethinking Pedagogy: Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology in Achieving Quality Education
Deep Insights
New Delhi: UNESCO; Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) (2019), xiii, 151 pp.
"Based on the literature review, mapping of digital education resources in circulation, and examples of implementation of digital education initiatives from around the world, this report aims to provide insights that would help lead to the wise, innovative and ethical use of digital technology in ed
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Science Journalism for Development in the Global South: A Systematic Literature Review of Issues and Challenges
Public Understanding of Science, volume 28, issue 8 (2019), pp. 973-990
"Based primarily on a systematic review of the relevant literature between 2000 and 2017, this article reflects on the state of journalism about science in developing countries, with a focus on its issues, challenges and implications for their developmental processes and causes. Five major themes em
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Evaluating Behaviour Change Communication Campaigns in Health and Safety: A Literature Review
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Centre for Automotive Safety Research (2019), 30 pp.
"This literature review examined selected international research, published from 2010 to the present, to investigate how six fields other than road safety (i.e. healthy eating/physical activity, smoking, alcohol and drug use, workplace health and safety, suicide and juvenile offending) evaluated the
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Linkages as a Lens: An Exploration of Strategic Communications in P/CVE
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 20 (2019), pp. 1-45
"Strategic communications for the purpose of countering violent extremism have become widespread in recent years, especially given the communications revolution which has amplified the messages of violent extremists and those that wish to counter them. Despite this, there is little-to-no research wh
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Reviewing the Role of the Internet in Radicalization Processes
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 21 (2019), pp. 261-299
"This review presents the existing research on the role of the Internet in radicalization processes. Using a systematic literature search strategy, our paper yields 88 studies on the role of the Internet in a) right-wing extremism and b) radical jihadism. Available studies display a predominant inte
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Media and Anti-Corruption
Deep Insights
"The media can play a paramount role in exposing corruption and initiating legal, political and penal action against it. Different media genres unfold their respective strengths and show their limits as anti-corruption tools depending on the different levels on which they take effect, on the audienc
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Communicating Environmental Health Risks with Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research and Recommendations for Future Studies
Health Communication, volume 34, issue 13 (2019), pp. 1564-1574
"A systematic literature review was conducted to consolidate peer-reviewed research on the communication of environmental health risks with Indigenous populations. The comprehensive literature review procedures included searching databases and key journals that represented various fields in communic
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Puppet as a Pedagogical Tool: A Literature Review
International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, volume 11, issue 4 (2019), pp. 393-401
"This study examines the potential of puppets in the educational context. The study offers a literature review on the benefits and possibilities of the puppet as a pedagogical tool. The literature was searched using primarily an international e-material search of UEF FINNA. Additional articles were
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13 Reasons Why Not: A Methodological and Meta-Analytic Review of Evidence Regarding Suicide Contagion by Fictional Media
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, volume 49, issue 4 (2019), pp. 1178-1186
"For decades, policymakers and suicide prevention advocates have questioned whether exposure to media with suicide themes, whether television, movies, or music, could increase suicide risk among youth. To date, no clear picture has emerged, with data inconsistent. Two broad forms of data consider th
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The Effectiveness of Using Entertainment Education Narratives to Promote Safer Sexual Behaviors of Youth: A Meta-Analysis, 1985-2017
Plos One, volume 14, issue 2: e0209969 (2019), 14 pp.
"Risky sexual behaviors are associated with the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies, both major health concerns for youth worldwide. This review studies the effectiveness of narrated mass media programs in promoting safer sexual practices among youth in de
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Digital Diasporas: An Overview of the Research Areas of Migration and New Media Through a Narrative Literature Review
Human Technology, volume 15, issue 2 (2019), pp. 142-180
"Academic research on migration and the use of new media constitutes a growing field. The first studies dealing explicitly with the field appeared in the end of the 1990s. Now, it has become an established research area. The impact and importance of the new technologies for migrants is well establis
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"The report is split into three chapters: chapter one looks at over one hundred different campaigns, highlighting effective and successful campaigns, and the evaluations of them where possible. Those that are not evaluated can be used as inspiration. The categorisation of the different campaigns was
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The European media discourse on immigration and its effects: A literature review
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 42, issue 3 (2018), pp. 207-223
"To understand public opinion about immigration in Europe, one has to understand the media’s role in it. We present a literature review on research on media discourse on immigration and their effects. Despite differences in the way immigration and migrant groups are represented in European media,
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Unbeatable? Debates and Divides in Gender and Video Game Research
Communication Research Trends, volume 37, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-29
"In this review essay, I will chart the history of video game technology, the emergence of game studies as a field, provide an overview of the key aspects of gender and video game research, and highlight key debates in gender and video games research." (Page 5)
Defining “Fake News”: A Typology of Scholarly Definitions
Digital Journalism, issue 6 (2018), pp. 137-153
"This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and 2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, man
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2017
Zell Publishing Consultants (2018), 77 pp.
"The third in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and the book sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2017, a tot
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Todesbilder im Film: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie
Medienwissenschaft Berichte und Papiere, issue 177 (2018), 20 pp.
"Es bedarf der Kontextanalyse, wenn man an die Kulturalität des Todes sich annähern will. Das Gros der vorliegenden Untersuchungen entäuscht gerade in dieser Qualität – weil quantitative Inhaltsanalysen gerade diesen, of sehr komplexen, Zusammenhang kaum erfassen können, weil Einzelanalysen z
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