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Media and Development
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Martin Scott

London: Zed Books (2014), 231 pp.

"From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and ... more

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Information in the Midst of Crisis: Addressing the Information Needs of Internally Displaced Persons at the Tong Ping Protection of Civilians Site, Juba, South Sudan

Forcier Consulting;Internews;USAID, December update (2014), v, 103 pp.

"In February, 2014, Internews worked with Forcier Consulting to conduct a baseline survey of 612 respondents from the Tong Ping site to identify information needs, sources, and preferences to help guide their intervention strategies, and in April 2014 Internews again teamed up with Forcier Consultin ... more

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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

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ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence from East and Southern Africa

Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas, Kathleen Diga (eds.)

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Practical Action Publishing (2014), 254 pp.

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Partnerships, Advocacy and Communication for Social Change

Stephen Boyle (ed.)

UNICEF (2014), 35 pp.

"The purpose of this booklet and accompanying webinar is to assist UNICEF staff and our partners to understand the basic concepts of the many unfounded social norms, beliefs and cultural practices – what they are and how they operate – that are responsible for the many layers of stigma and bias ... more

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Using Radio to Drive Development in Southern Africa: Report on the Radio Platform for Community Development (RPCD)

Lusaka: Panos Southern Africa (2013), x, 27 pp.

"The project aimed at enhancing the capacity of community radio stations to operate as agents of change for the rural poor and marginalised people [...] The project worked with a sample of 15 community radio stations – five per country – in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In implementing the RPCD ... more

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Media Attention for Climate Change around the World: Data from 27 Countries

Andreas Schmidt, Ana Ivanova, Mike S. Schäfer

Global Environmental Change, volume 23, issue 5 (2013), pp. 1233-1248

"Climate change is a global phenomenon, and its outcomes affect societies around the world. So far, however, studies on media representations of climate change have mostly concentrated on Western societies. This paper goes beyond this limited geographical scope by presenting a comparative analysis o ... more

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Priming Effects of a Reconciliation Radio Drama on Historical Perspective-Taking in the Aftermath of Mass Violence in Rwanda

Rezarta Bilali, Vollhardt, Johanna Ray

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 49, issue 1 (2013), pp. 144-151

"A field experiment in Rwanda investigated the impact of a radio drama designed to increase perspective-taking with regard to the history of intergroup conflict. An audio-based priming technique was used to assess the causal impact of the radio drama. Rwandan participants (N=842) listened to an audi ... more

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Humanitarianism in the Network Age: Including World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2012

Daniel Gilman, Andrea Noyes (eds.)

UN Office for the Coodination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2013), 113 pp.

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Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change

Dani Snyder-Young

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 156 pp.

"Much has been written about theatre's capacity to create social change. Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change, however, looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; examining what theatre can and can't do. It critiques the limitations of th ... more

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How the people of Vietnam live with climate change and what communication can do

Tan Copsey, Yen Nguyen, Phuong Ha Pham

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 74 pp.

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Acceso a la información, participación y justicia en temas ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe: Situación actual, perspectivas y ejemplos de buenas prácticas

Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) (2013), 73 pp.

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Reflexive Engagements: The International Development Blogging Evolution and its Challenges

Tobias Denskus, Andrea S. Papan

Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 455-467

"Writing weblogs (blogs) has become a substantial part of how development is discussed on the Internet. Based on research with development bloggers and the authors' own social media practice, this article is an exploratory case study to approach the impact of blogging on reflective writing, work pra ... more

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Waves of Media Democratization: A Brief History of Contemporary Participatory Practices in the Media Sphere

Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren, Francesca Pasquali

Convergence, volume 19, issue 3 (2013), pp. 287-295

"The article aims to provide a more historically grounded approach to the relationship between communication and participation, by distinguishing different waves of media democratization. The article first discusses the concept of participation and some of its complexities, and then sketches a serie ... more

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Traffic Crashes: Reporting on Road Safety as a Global Health Crisis

Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 8 pp.

"Road traffic is often covered in the media as an event – not as an enormous drain on a country’s health resources or a leading killer of its citizens. By framing traffic safety as a health story, journalists have the opportunity to impact the way these stories are told, and potentially help shi ... more

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Information in Natural Disasters

Anouk Ride, Melinda Kii, George West Dapelebo, Dallas Hila

Solomon Islands Media Assistance Scheme (SOLMAS);ABC International Development (2013), 29 pp.

"This report assesses current information materials on natural disasters in Solomon Islands, identifies the key factors in disseminating information during a disaster and provides recommendations for future disaster content and communications." (Page 2)

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Wandel der Beratung durch Neue Medien

Joachim Wenzel

Göttingen: V & R Unipress (2013), 271 pp.

"Immer häufiger wird Beratung mit Hilfe von Medien durchgeführt, sei es alternativ oder parallel zur Face-to-Face-Beratung. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie befasst sich mit diesen Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Beratungsstellen. Dazu wurden psychosoziale Beratungsstellen untersucht, die Sexual- ... more