"Hunger gehört zu den elementarsten menschlichen Erfahrungen. Etwa jeder zehnte Mensch auf der Welt hungert. Jeden Tag sterben etwa 24.000 Menschen an den Folgen von Hunger, etwa alle 13 Sekunden ein Kind unter 5 Jahren. Hunger ist aber keineswegs ein unabwendbares Schicksal. Das Welternährungspro
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gramm der Vereinten Nationen bezeichnet Hunger als »das größte lösbare Problem der Welt«. Politisch wie medial wird das Thema aber radikal vernachlässigt. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurden 39 Medien ausgewertet, darunter über 8.000 Ausgaben von Nachrichtensendungen, circa 500 Episoden von politischen Talkshows und mehr als 1.000 Ausgaben von Printmedien mit etwa 37.000 Druckseiten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"We are experiencing a climate and information crisis. While temperatures rise, the digital information landscape is fast becoming a toxic wasteland. The distortion of knowledge is accelerating polarisation, radicalisation, and confusion — endangering our ability to respond to climate change. The
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question is, what can we do? The RePlaybook gathers insights from 30 organisations and practitioners at the forefront of the response. From attention-sucking algorithms to AI-generated slop, it explores how our information environment is shaping and influencing opinion on climate and offers strategies to decode disorder, challenge tech paradigms, and counteract division.This collaborative guide combines thought leadership and practical approaches. It equips communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengtheningclimate discourse in an age of cultural divides and contested truth." (Summary)
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"Das Digitale führt zu einem tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Betroffen sind das politische System unserer parlamentarischen Parteiendemokratie, die Medien sowie das Lernen in seinen unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen. Diese revolutionären Umwälzungen bleiben nicht ohne Folgen. Denn: Über
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soziale Netzwerke und Blogs können große demokratische Potenziale mobilisiert werden. Die neuen Partizipationsmöglichkeiten des Web 2.0 haben aber auch Konsequenzen für Inhalte und Formate der politischen Bildung. Doch was folgt aus der täglichen Beschäftigung mit virtuellen Welten? Droht die „digitale Demenz“, wie ein Hirnforscher behauptet? Klicken wir uns das Hirn weg? Untersuchungen über digitale Spielwelten und medienpädagogische Empfehlungen runden den vorliegenden Band ab." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Der Band dient der Systematisierung des Forschungsfeldes medialer Gesundheitskommunikation. Neben der Definition und Diskussion von Grundbegriffen werden Darstellungsformen und Nutzung gesundheitsbezogener Medieninhalte beschrieben und Ansätze der Medienwirkungsforschung mit Modellen zur Erklärun
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g individuellen Gesundheitsverhaltens verknüpft. Den Abschluss bilden Strategien der Gesundheitsförderung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Since World War II, several terms have been used to describe the deliberate, systematic, and creative use of communication assets - technologies, processes and imagination - to respond to dehumanizing conditions and to promote positive human development. They include project support communication,
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development support communication, communication and national development, communication and development, strategic communication, health communication, participatory communication, and, more recently, communication for development (C4D). Each of these terms is associated with shifts in focus, emphasis, and processes. At its core, each term also represents the outcome of dialogue among stakeholders about what is meant by "development." (Page 397)
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"Digitale Didaktik begründet, worauf im digitalen Lernen und Blended Learning zu achten ist. In diesem Buch geben Charlotte und Kersten Reich einen Überblick über zehn zentrale Aspekte, die das moderne Lernen in Präsenz und Online heute ausmachen, unter anderem Selbstlernen und Selbstwirksamkeit
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, Blended-Learning-Modelle in der Umsetzung, handlungsorientiertes Lernen mit heterogenen Lerngruppen, agiles und mobiles Lernen (Design Thinking, Scrum), künstliche Intelligenz, analoge und digitale Lernorte, insbesondere auch Lerncluster und -landschaften, sowie gezieltes und effektives Feedback. Diese zehn Aspekte werden mit Methoden verknüpft, die zu einem fundierten und zugleich praxisnahen Konzept für die Verbindung von digitalem und analogem Lernen führen. Im Kern einer solchen digitalen Didaktik stehen Anwenden, Üben und Wiederholen. Einzelne Methoden werden im Buch abgebildet, darüber hinaus steht ein umfangreicher Online-Methodenpool zur Verfügung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The Spinoza project aims to develop an open-source AI tool that ensures the integrity, traceability, and ownership of its data. It is co-designed with journalists and publishers and its first prototype focuses on climate change issues. The initial concept was launched by Reporters Without Borders (
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RSF), and its execution was made possible by its partner, the French press alliance l’Alliance pour la presse d’information générale (l’Alliance), which represents nearly 300 political and general news outlets in France — 120 of which participated in this experiment, sharing their reflections on how media outlets can engage with AI. Spinoza was developed through frequent professional workshops, bringing together diverse profiles from both the news media and data science sectors. Publishers, digital media managers, editorial directors, editors-in-chief, and journalists from l’Alliance-affiliated media collaborated with project managers, UX designers, and data scientists from the project’s technical partner, Ekimetrics." (Background, page 4)
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"Este libro presenta una reflexión en relación con las diferentes fases o «tiempos» que, a juicio del autor, han influenciado la aplicación de la comunicación a estrategias de desarrollo, mostrando la manera como estos enfoques han permeado la utilización de la comunicación desde los organis
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mos de cooperación internacional. Para ello el autor se basa en estudios realizados sobre el tema y su experiencia como consultor internacional en el campo. En este contexto, se presenta la pobre valoración que se le ha dado a la comunicación como estrategia de desarrollo y el papel que la academia ha jugado en el mismo. Finalmente, se describe el perfil de un nuevo comunicador, enfatizando en la perspectiva de la Comunicación para el Cambio Social." (https://encantalibros.com)
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"Despite the proliferation of IT applications worldwide, Indigenous knowledge remains marginalized in the mainstream information technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) discourse. This special section explores tensions and opportunities at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and digital te
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chnologies, emphasizing the need for culturally sensitive, inclusive, and ethical approaches to technological innovation. Bridging IT and Indigenous knowledge systems can foster environmental sustainability, digital equity, and social justice while preserving rich cultural heritage. This editorial introduces the special section, which presents ground-breaking research demonstrating the role of IT in Indigenous financial inclusion, culturally sensitive partnerships, and community empowerment. It also calls for increased interdisciplinary scholarship to advance IT solutions that respect and amplify Indigenous voices. By recognizing Indigenous knowledge as a pillar of sustainable innovation, IT and IS research can contribute to a just and inclusive technological future." (Abstract)
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"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re
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lated to biometric identification and automated poverty targeting, this article argues that humanitarian staff, refugee recipients and community members engage in ‘repair work’ – the subtle and quotidian labour that goes into addressing fragility and maintaining functionality. Inspired by feminist studies of labour, repair work is found to be invisible in being undervalued, unpaid and reproductive, which is reminiscent of labour that has historically fallen to disenfranchised people. Repair work also enables data workers to assert their autonomy and contest infrastructures that they framed as being unreasonable and unjust. In doing so, findings suggest that repair work is fundamental to the ability of data-driven aid programmes to cater to the needs of populations in crisis. This paper marks two contributions to understanding the promise and perils of ‘Technology for Good’: it introduces repair work as a novel conceptual framework to analyse labour involved in the datafication of aid, and it applies new empirical evidence to critical studies of data work." (Abstract)
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"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit
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arian sector by interrogating the implications of this new set of actors on humanitarian accountability relations. Drawing on insights from 60 interviews with humanitarian donors, implementing agencies, third-party monitors and data enumerators in Somalia, this article interrogates data narratives and data practices around thirdparty monitoring. We find that, while humanitarian donors are highly aware of challenges to accountability within the sector, there is a less critical view of data challenges and limitations by these external firms. This fuels donor optimism about third-party monitoring data, while obscuring the ways that third-partymonitoring data practices are complicating accountability relations in practice. Resultant data practices, which are aimed at separating data from the people involved, reproduce power asymmetries around the well-being and expertise of the Global North versus Global South. This challenges accountability to donors and to crisis-affected communities, by providing a partial view of reality that is, at the same time, assumed to be reflective of crisis- affected communities’ experiences. This article contributes to critical data studies by showing howmonitoring data practices intended to improve accountability relations are imbued with, and reproduce, power asymmetries that silence local actors." (Abstract)
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"Short videos are highly attractive and are becoming increasingly popular among young adults due to their unique properties. However, they also pose a risk of getting used to surface processing and suppressing slow analytic thinking. So far, little is known about the potential impact of short video
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use (SVU) on learning variables. Therefore, this series of studies aimed to examine the consequences of SVU on rational thinking, academic delay of gratification (ADOG), and a surface learning approach (Study 1) and examine the situational impact of watching a short video collection on those variables except ADOG (Study 2). Further, it was examined whether short video-based learning material is suitable for teaching low-complex material (Study 2). In Study 1, participants (n = 169) completed questionnaires regarding SVU, rational thinking, ADOG, and surface learning approach. For Study 2, participants (n = 123) took part in an online experiment with a 2 (short video collection; present vs. not present) x 2 (learning material; short video-based vs. text-based) between-subject design, completed questionnaires regarding SVU, rational thinking, surface learning approach and answered a quiz regarding knowledge acquisition. The findings reveal that SVU is negatively associated with rational thinking and positively associated with a surface learning approach. Watching a short video collection led to a higher situational surface learning approach, and participants who learned with short videos scored lower on the quiz than those who learned with text. Limitations, implications, and future directions are discussed." (Abstract)
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"Im Amazonasgebiet, abgelegen von den brasilianischen Metropolen, hat sich eine lebendige Rap-Szene etabliert. Anders als im Großstadt-Rap geht es in ihren Texten weniger um soziale Ungleichheit, sondern vor allem um Umweltzerstörung und kulturelle Identität." (Einleitung)
"Humanitarian crises are challenges affecting millions of people. They are diverse and global – be they natural disasters, famine crises, conflicts or wars. However, the attention of the global public is usually focused on a few, particularly prominent crises. With this Crisis Report, which is bei
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ng published for the ninth year in a row, CARE puts ten underreported crises and the people affected into focus. The facts speak for themselves: as a consequence of these underreported crises, around 34.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. As in the last two editions of our report, these crises take place exclusively in Africa. While conflicts, hunger crises and extreme weather events in countries such as Angola, Mozambique and Niger have a massive impact on the lives of those affected, the emergencies largely escape global attention. Our media analysis for the year 2024 shows the weighting of reporting on humanitarian crises at a global level. A total of 43 crises were analyzed for the report. Each of these affected at least one million people. Of the total of 5.6 million online articles analyzed, 2.7 million articles - almost half - are about the devastating conflict in Gaza. Numbers never capture the scale of human suffering. In many of these crises, mothers, fathers and children struggle to survive on a daily basis - often without access to basic humanitarian aid or international support. And underreporting on a crisis is often accompanied by a lack of financial support for people in need.." (Introduction, page 3)
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