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Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries

Abiodun Salawu, Toyosi Olugbenga, Samson Owolabi
IGI Global (2018), 339 pp.
"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary nations and the media’s responsibility to inform citizens of government and non-government activities. High ... more
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Word on the Street: Examining What Characteristics of a Street Paper and its Host City Best Contribute to Success

Jelena Gajic
Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2018), iii, 60 pp.
"By creating opportunities for microentrepreneurship, street papers have been tackling homelessness and poverty in U.S. cities since the late 1980s. Homeless or low-income vendors purchase these social justice-oriented publications for a fraction of the cover price, and then resell them on street co ... more
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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View

John La Raw
Seoul: Chung-Ang University, Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Master Thesis (2018), xi, 82 pp.
"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter ... more
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EU Medmedia: Vers une réforme du secteur des médias dans la région du Sud de la Méditerranée. Résultats
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MedMedia (2018), 24 pp.
"Développé dans le cadre d’un programme de 17 M d’euros financé par l’Union européenne intitulé « Médias et Culture pour le développement du sud de la Méditerranée », MedMedia a été mis en oeuvre de janvier 2014 à mai 2018. Ce programme a offert aux décideurs politiques, aux org ... more
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Exploiter les opportunités du numérique au profi t du développement rural: Leçons tirées des projets de développement rural fi nancés par l’Allemagne

Julia Bayer, Petra Jacobi, Nadine Guenther
Bonn, Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 105 pp.
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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

Jan Schwaab, Stephanie Wiedner, Kathleen Ziemann
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 48 pp.
"Innovative Entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers behind Africa’s digital transformation. For many young people, entrepreneurship is often the best way to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Innovative entrepreneurs know their local markets and understand the social context. This gives them a co ... more
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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more
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Content of Vernacular Radio Stations Programs and Public Participation in Devolved Governance in Nyeri County, Kenya

Dorcas Wakio Mwangi, Caroline Biwott, David Gichuhi
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 70-81
"The study has concluded that there exists a positive relationship between vernacular radio programming content and participation of community in issues of governance. Therefore, it is recommended that vernacular radio stations should give more attention to the content of these programs. Priority sh ... more
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Let's Talk Digital. Case Studies: Using Digital Technologies in the Context of Governance and Conflict

Julia Manske, Andreas Pawelke
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 45 pp.
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Countering False Information on Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies

U.S. Department of State, Social Media Working Group for Emergency Services and Disaster Management (2018), 19 pp.
"Best practices for agencies to counter misinformation, rumors and false information are detailed and categorized in this white paper, and challenges and additional considerations are presented for review. This report illustrates methods of countering false information on social media with case stud ... more
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more
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Communication for Development: Case Study Compendium 2013-2017

New Delhi: UNICEF (2018), 205 pp.
"This compendium of 15 SBCC cases presents results and learning from the Communication for Development (C4D) cross-sectoral interventions from 15 states of India – all implemented during the country programme 2013- 2017. Additionally, a national level C4D Results Report ‘Resonating Change’ has ... more
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Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)

Alan Finlay
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.
"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social ... more
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Tabloid Journalism in Africa

Brian Chama
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), x, 216 pp.
"This book provides a timely and important summary of tabloid journalism in Africa, which clearly shows how tabloids in the African context play a unique role in the democratization process. Prior to this book, very little was known about how tabloid journalists operate in Africa. The book first exp ... more
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Digital Skills for Life and Work: What are the Educational Implications of the ‘Broadband Society’ for the Development of Digital Skills for Life and Work?

Working Group on Education
UNESCO; Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development (2017), iv, 124 pp.
"The term ‘digital skills’ refers to a range of different abilities, many of which are not only ‘skills’ per se, but a combination of behaviours, expertise, know-how, work habits, character traits, dispositions and critical understandings. These skills and competencies are interconnected and ... more
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Civil Defamation and Media Freedom in Hungary: Trends and Challenges in Court Practice in Personality Rights Cases

Bea Bodrogi
Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2017), 21 pp.
"The present study examines current legislation and court practice in Hungary regarding civil law violations of rights to reputation, privacy and likeness, with a particular focus on trends in terms of awarding non-pecuniary damages/restitution. Through an analysis of relevant legislation and a pres ... more
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Reporting Bad News: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Intrusion and Fair Representation in Media Coverage of Death

Sallyanne Duncan, Jacki Newton
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xii, 223 pp.
"Much has been written about disasters and large-scale tragedies, but this research concentrates on individual loss and the relationship between journalist and vulnerable interviewee. While much discussion in this area is negative, focusing on the ethics of intrusion and journalists who act insensit ... more
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Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri’s Agripol Advocacy Platform in Burkina Faso

Sylvestre Ouédraogo, Théophile Assane Sawadogo
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 6 pp.
"Agripol is a platform that facilitates lobbying and advocacy of government, decision makers and the public by farmers’ organisations and others interested in agricultural development. Yam Pukri, which maintains the site, runs workshops and training courses to help its clients gain lobbying skills ... more
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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell

Ben Stringer, David Campbell
Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that ... more
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station That Helped Bring Peace to the Congo

Jennifer Bakody
Vancouver; Berkeley: Figure (2017), 304 pp.
"When Jennifer Bakody steps off the plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004, she walks right into the hardest and most inspiring job an idealistic young journalist from Nova Scotia could ever imagine. Six years of war involving eight countries and several million deaths have just ended ... more