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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
Deep Insights

Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more
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Social Media, Community Development and Social Capital

Peter Matthews
Community Development Journal, volume 51, issue 3 (2016), pp. 419-435
"Initial growth in Internet use in the 1990s resulted in many digital pioneers viewing new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a means to radically empower people through new global connections and extensive social capital. This has extended into an interest in exploring how ICTs ca ... more
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Solar Powered Transmission: A Case Study from South Sudan

Issa Kassimu, Natalie Chang, Ann Charles
The Radio Community (TRC); Internews (2016), 62 pp.
"This document takes an in-depth look at the conversion to 100% solar power operation at a small community radio station called Mayardit FM in Turalei, South Sudan. Since the installation of the solar system in March 2016, the station has operated on 100% solar power (including its transmission), br ... more
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Protection of Whistleblowers: A Brief Guide for Implementing a National Framework

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2016), 30 pp.
"A framework to ensure that whistleblowers are protected by the law and that their public interest reports or disclosures are effectively acted upon will strengthen democratic societies based on human rights and the rule of law. The Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)7, adopted by the Comm ... more
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Participatory Video and the Pacifica Mamas: A Pilot Project

Malama Saifoloi, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Marcus Williams, Usha Sundar Harris, Munawwar Naqvi
Auckland: Unitec Institute of Technology (2016), 20 pp.
"Emerging literature highlights that in the Pacific, the use of participatory video (PV) is a new trend in research and community action. It can be employed as a tool to empower communities to have agency over their media outputs, meaning that they have full control of the content creation, producti ... more
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Implicit Counterinsurgency: Media, Development and Security in Afghanistan

Nicholas Ross Zevely
George Washington University, Master Thesis (2016), iv, 69 pp.
"This paper focuses on post-September 11, 2001 media assistance in Afghanistan at the confluence of the development and defense sectors, otherwise known as the security-development nexus. It is out of this nexus that a burgeoning press-state system developed amid an ongoing conflict between the Gove ... more
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The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa

Philip Keefer, Stuti Khemani
World Bank Economic Review, volume 30, issue 2 (2016), pp. 233-267
"We use a “natural experiment” in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media, in this experiment government agents do not provide greater benefits to citizens whose exposure to c ... more
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Gringo Trails, Gringo Tales: Storytelling, Destination Perspectives, and Tourism Globalization

Pegi Vail
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 189-199
"The documentary film Gringo Trails explores the long-term effects of tourism globalization on cultures, economies and the environment in the developing world through the lens of budget backpacker travelers and their storytelling. This chapter explores the travel narrative to tourism globalization a ... more
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Critiquing Participatory Video: Experiences from Around the World

Elizabeth-Jane Milne (ed.)
Area, volume 48, issue 4 (2016), pp. 401-451
"Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in participatory video, but accounts have often been celebratory and uncritical. At the same time there has been an ever-increasing multiplicity of interpretations, thus making participatory video seem ‘nebulous’ and ‘perplexing’. This ... more
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Llegan Ondas de Paz: Ondas Indígenas que Transforman

Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte; Organización Zonal Indígenas del Putumayo (OZIP); Radio Waira (2016), 67 pp.
"Llegan ondas de Paz" es una estrategia comunicativa que tiene como objetivos y actividades Ios siguientes objetivos: Generar una cultura de convivencia, participación y reconciliación a través de la capacidad de estar informados sobre los Acuerdos de Paz que se adelantan en el país, por medio d ... more
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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.
"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more
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Trickfilm to go: Leitfaden zur (Trick-)Filmarbeit mit mobiler Technik

Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW; filmothek der jugend NRW (2016), 43 pp.
"Die Publikation "Die Trickboxx – Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis" beinhaltet umfassendes Material für die Umsetzung von Projekten mit traditioneller Technik und ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren stark nachgefragt worden. Die vorliegende aktuelle Publikation "Trickfilm to go" knüpft daran an und ... more
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Communication for Development: A Practical Guide
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Thomas Jenatsch, Richard Bauer et al.
Bern: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2016), 76 pp.
"The first two parts of the handbook outline methods and concepts, showing how communication can be planned according to the context and integrated into the project cycle. The third part recounts the SDC's experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The documentary video catalysing reform ... more
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Hinhören und die Menschen für sich selbst sprechen lassen. Train the Trainer-Workshop: Participatory Video als kreative Methode für Teilhabe

Heike Teufel
Contacts (AGEH), issue 1 (2016), pp. 22-23
"Der fünftägige Workshop beinhaltet nicht nur die persönliche Reflektion, sondern vor allem das Ausprobieren und das eigene Erleben mit der Videokamera. Gemeinsam geht die Gruppe der Frage nach, was es heißt, eine persönliche Geschichte im Format des Digital Storytelling so zu entwickeln, dass ... more
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Citizen Media and Public Spaces: Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent

Mona Baker, Bolette Blaagaard (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 250 pp.
"Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes o ... more
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Cerebros para la paz: Pautas de crianza como mecanismo para la no violencia y la protección de los niños y niñas. La experiencia del programa radial “La Hora Fantástica” de la Fundación de Atención a la Niñez-FAN

Juanita Arango Restrepo
Bogotá: Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) (2016), 64 pp.
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Open Mic Nepal: Tracking Rumors in Post-Earthquake Nepal

Internews (2016), 13 pp.
"In July 2015, Internews launched Open Mic Nepal, a project designed to track and debunk rumors in the earthquake-afected communities. Based on previous pilots of this approach in Gaza and Liberia, the project set out to assess and address information needs by using minimally structured qualitative ... more
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The Importance of Participation in Development Through Community Radio: A Case Study of Nkhotakota Community Radio Station in Malawi

Peter Mhagama
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (2016), pp. 45-61
"This article examines the role of participation in development through community radio. Ordinary people participate in community radio through programme production, financing, management and the daily operations of the station. This enables them to define the development problems faced by their com ... more
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Indian Newspapers’ Digital Transition: Dainik Jagran, Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama

Zeenab Aneez, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) (2016), 47 pp.
"In this report, we have analysed how the Hindustan Times, Dainik Jagran, and Malayala Manorama are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to adapt to an increasingly digital media environment. Our analysis shows that all three newspapers are investing in expanding their digital ... more
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Open Government: The Global Context and the Way Forward

Paris: OECD (2016), 271 pp.
"This report provides a holistic, data-driven analysis of how countries are currently implementing open government practices, the main challenges they face and the untapped opportunities that exist for enhancing transparency, accountability and citizen participation both in the policy-making cycle a ... more