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Storytelling and Social Change: A Strategy Guide for Grantmakers
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Paul Van De Carr
Working Narratives (2015), 69 pp.
"This guide is for anyone who wants to create social change, and who wants to learn how storytelling can help. The guide is divided into four color-coded sections. The strategy section is about how to use storytelling to best effect. The storytelling section offers ideas on how to tell a good story. ... more
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The Practicalities of Informed Consent in Development Photography

Nabila Idris
Dhaka: Save the Children (2015), 16 pp.
"Every photography subject deserves to be treated as an autonomous human being, capable of making independent decisions. In case of children, we also need to ensure their parents’ consent. We need to be constantly aware of our position in the power hierarchy — in the development world, in many c ... more
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"Wir wollen die Gesellschaft verändern"

Ina Rottscheid
Blickpunkt Lateinamerika (Adveniat), issue 3 (2015), pp. 6-13
"Immer noch liegt die Analphabetenrate in Guatemala bei rund 30 Prozent, der Zugang zu Bildung ist nicht für jeden selbstverständlich. Daher kam einem Jesuiten in den 1970er Jahren eine einfache, aber umso wirkungsvollere Idee: »Wenn der Schüler nicht in die Schule kommt, muss der Lehrer zum Sch ... more
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Mapping Information Ecosystems to Support Resilience

Internews (2015), 2 pp.
"This tool is designed to support decision makers in understanding how information contributes to a more connected and resilient community. Whether your community is defined by place, population, issue, or a mix of these, a good understanding of a community's information needs and use are essential ... more
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Using Entertainment-Education for Distance Education
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Esta de Fossard, Michael Bailey
New Dehli et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xvii, 290 pp.
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Reporting Development: A Guide for African Journalists

Oliver Wates et al.
European Journalism Centre (2015), 71 pp.
"This handbook provides a distinctly African perspective on how to create direct linkages between consumers of information and development projects by using words and images that communicate and resonate with ease. Development issues can seem dull and flat but they can create a huge impact in societ ... more
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Communication and Complex Emergencies: A Resource Guide

Andrew Skuse, Tait Brimacombe, Dianne Rodger
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU); Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) (2015), 57 pp.
"This resource guide assesses the broad role of information and communication in disaster situations and complex emergencies. It highlights a number of distinct communication phases or cycles associated with emergency or crisis communication, as well as defining the broad range and diversity of init ... more
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Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with Albinism in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco
Disability & Society, volume 30, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1143-1157
"This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowle ... more
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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

Jairo Lugo-Ocando
London: Pluto Press (2015), viii, 215 pp.
"In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed f ... more
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Radio Broadcasting in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Can This be the Magic Bullet?

Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha, Crispen Chipunza
International Social Work, volume 58, issue 2 (2015), pp. 223-237
"In this study, we assessed the relevance and effectiveness of radio broadcasting as a strategy that facilitates the adoption and use of safer sexual practices among students at a South African university. Based on ethnographic data, the article highlights that the essential and critical contributio ... more
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance

Anke Schwittay
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance ... more
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Epidemiología para periodistas y comunicadores

Barcelona: Fundación Antonio Esteve; Asociación Española de Comuncación Científica (AECC) (2015), x, 94 pp.
"[...] los textos de las ocho ponencias ofrecen una introducción a la epidemiología con abundantes explicaciones y referencias de utilidad para los informadores en su trabajo cotidiano. El Cuaderno recoge ta mbién la crónica del debate que tuvo lugar entre periodistas y epidemiólogos, una bibli ... more
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Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
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Esta de Fossard
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xix, 293 pp.
"In many—if not most—countries of the modern world, radio is thought of as a provider of music, news, weather reports and traffic situations, but very little else. Yet in parts of the developing world, radio is still extremely important and valuable as a medium for encouraging and teaching life ... more
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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.
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Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?

Frank Battaglini, Jamie Dougherty, John Klofas
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Public Safety Initiatives (2014), 24 pp.
"Technological evolution has rewritten the books on media campaigns many times. However, some things have remained the same. First, media campaigns must come from multiple sources. They must employ printed materials, radio and television public service announcements, and internet technologies, such ... more
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Manual de comunicación ambiental: Del greenwashing a la sostenibilidad

Olga Roger Loppacher, Pilar Buil Gazol
Pamplona: EUNSA (2014), 192 pp.
"En Manual de comunicación ambiental, el lector encontrará una guía para definir una política de comunicación ambiental. Con tal fin se aclara este término diferenciándolo de otras prácticas que se apropian del «discurso verde» sin creer en él. Además, se esbozan las estrategias, las cla ... more
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The Gambia Media Survey

Gates Malaria Partnership; Center for Innovation Against Malaria (2014), 56 pp.
"A national survey was completed in November 2004, designed to measure: media access and use; knowledge of Malaria, its prevention and cure; reach of the radio programme Bolongodala. The sample achieved represented the adult (15+) population of the Gambia estimated to be 768,200. Mandinka is the mos ... more
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Amazônia: O financiamento de atividades produtivas sustentáveis na cobertura da imprensa

ANDI (2014), 30 pp.
"Um primeiro olhar sobre os resultados da pesquisa demonstra claramente o ainda pequeno interesse da imprensa a respeito do tema. A cobertura do financiamento de atividades produtivas sustentáveis na Amazônia é escassa, irregular e sazonal. Os 46 jornais analisados na presente pesquisa publicaram ... more
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From the Ground Up: Changing the Conversation About Climate Change

Stephan Faris, Steven Lipscombe, Sonia Whitehead, Damian Wilson
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 28 pp.
"[...] The briefing looks at the everyday experience of people living in the world’s most populous continent: Asia. It draws on data from BBC Media Action’s Climate Asia project, which interviewed more than 33,000 people in seven countries – Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan ... more
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Comunicación para otro desarrollo: Escuchar antes de hablar

Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez
Madrid: Editorial Popular (2014), 216 pp.