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Area of Origin: Communication Channels and Social Media Report Syria

REACH (2015), 8 pp.
"With 4 million refugees in neighbouring countries and six and a half million Internally Displaced Persons within Syria, communication tools have become critical for the Syrian population to maintain contact with their family and friends both inside and outside the country. The costs associated with ... more
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Good Practice Study on Principles for Indicator Development, Selection, and Use in Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation

Climate-Eval Community of Practice (2015), viii, 87 pp.
"This study identifies and addresses key challenges concerning M&E for climate change adaptation (CCA). It does so by documenting good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the M&E of adaptation interventions. The study also looks at the ... 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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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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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students

Leketi Makalela
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418
"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi ... more
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Can Radio Drama Improve Child Health and Nutrition in Somalia?

Shiri Landman, Angela Githitho Muriithi
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 11 pp.
"1. Radio, particularly BBC Somali, is an effective medium for reaching people in remote areas of Somalia who are typically hard to reach, including the poorest [...] 2. Drama has been shown to have a particularly powerful role in encouraging audiences to absorb new and relevant information. Tragic ... more
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Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq: Humanitarian Information Needs of Syrian Refugees

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 18 pp.
"The assessment concludes that there is not ‘one magic answer’ to the question of which media channel is the most effective – rather a variety of channels must be used to reach as many people as possible. While TV scores high among both refugees and host population as a preferred media channel ... more
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Community Screenings for Participatory Video: A Guide

Gareth Benest
InsightShare (2014), 31 pp.
"This screening guide has been written to provide ideas and inspiration for anyone organising community screenings as part of a participatory video process. It includes advice on planning and delivering an effective screening, practical suggestions for logistics and technical considerations, facilit ... more
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Enjoying books together: A guide for teachers on the use of books in the classroom

Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly
Save the Children (2014), 35 pp.
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Radio and Audio Strategies for External Cultural Relations: Conference Report, Berlin, 24–25 October 2013

Frank Kaspar
Berlin, Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2014), 30 pp.
"Radio and online audio-formats are valuable instruments for international cultural work, and for education and development programmes. However, political developments following the end of the Cold War and the rise of satellite TV and online media have brought with them far-reaching cuts in the radi ... more
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Africa's Voices: Using Mobile Phones and Radio to Foster Mediated Public Discussion and to Gather Public Opinions in Africa

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2014), 21 pp.
"This paper presents the findings from a one-year applied research pilot project, Africa's Voices, run by the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). Africa's Voices developed out of CGHR's wider research programme on politics, ICTs and interactive media in Africa. Th ... more
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Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change: The Basis for a Renewal

Pradip Ninan Thomas, Elske van de Fliert
Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xiv, 150 pp.
"This book sets the stage for subsequent books by identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It critically reviews the theory and practice of Communication for Social Change (CSC) with a specific accent on the role played by structures in the creation of the discourses of CSC. Thomas a ... 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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Gesundheitskommunikation als Forschungsfeld der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft

Eva Baumann, Matthias R. Hastall, Constanze Rossmann, Alexandra Sowka (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 307 pp.
"Prävention und Gesundheitsversorgung sind immer auch mit Kommunikationsherausforderungen verbunden. Nicht nur in professionellen Kontexten, auch in der Alltagskommunikation sind Gesundheitsthemen ebenso präsent wie sie in den Medien gesucht und genutzt werden. Dies stellt vor allem die Kommunikat ... more
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Mass Communication Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

UNHCR; REACH (2014), 5 pp.
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Understanding the Information and Communication Needs Among IDPs in Northern Iraq

Jacobo Quintanilla, Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, Madara Hettiarachchi
Internews; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); World Vision International (2014), 30 pp.
"The key finding of this rapid assessment is that displaced people in northern Iraq live in an information vacuum which is hindering their ability to cope with the catastrophe in which they find themselves. This vacuum has two main origins: lack of access to reliable news and information from the lo ... more
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Cultura y posdesarrollo: Perspectivas, itinerarios y desafíos de la comunicación para el cambio social

Daniela Bruno, Lucía Guerrini (eds.)
La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Instituto de Investigaciones en Comunicación (IICOM) (2014), 182 pp.
"La presente publicación tiene como principal intención revisar la riqueza analítica y propositiva de la comunicación en el campo del desarrollo, en el actual contexto de “redimensionamiento” de la cultura y su relación con el cambio social; entendiendo que esta diversidad de puntos de part ... more
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Telling Stories of War Through the Screen: Participatory Video Approaches and Practice for Peace in Conflict-Affected Contexts

Valentina Baú
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 13, issue 1 (2014), pp. 1-9
"By bringing together literatures of Communication for Development and Conflict Transformation, this paper provides a theoretical illustration of the impact of participatory video as a tool for overcoming hostility among groups, as well as for healing and re-connecting communities that have endured ... more
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Video for Change Impact Evaluation Scoping Study: A Summary of Key Research Findings

Tanya Notley
Video4change Network (2014), 16 pp.
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Celebrity Advocacy and International Development

Dan Brockington
London: Routledge (2014), xxiv, 210 pp.
"[This book] examines the work of celebrity advocacy and lobbying in international development. Its purpose is to understand the alliances resulting, their history, consequences, wider contexts and implications. It argues that celebrity advocacy signals a new aspect of elite rule. For populist celeb ... more