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Ein Fall für Kommissar Amanullah. Justizaufbau mit Fernsehkrimis: Westliche Entwicklungsfachleute rümpfen die Nase, doch in den Wohnzimmern in Kabul kommt die Botschaft an

Dorn Townsend
welt-sichten, 26. Juni (2014)
"Seit einigen Jahren zeigt das afghanische Fernsehen zahlreiche Krimis und Dokumentationen von Gerichtsprozessen. Sie werden von Afghanen produziert, aber aus dem Ausland finanziert, unter anderem von der Europäischen Kommission, den Vereinten Nationen und der US-amerikanischen Entwicklungsagentur ... more
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Emergencia del territorio y comunicación local: Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en Colombia

Eliana Herrera Huérfano, María Victoria Rugeles Gélvez, Andrea Sotelo Carreño, Jair Vega Casanova (eds.)
Barranquilla; Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD); Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto); Universidad Santo Tomás (2014), xxx, 487 pp.
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Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication

Ezra Markowitz, Caroline Hodge, Gabriel Harp
New York: Columbia University, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED); ecoAmerica (2014), 89 pp.
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Broadcasting the Pandemic: A History of HIV on South African Television

Rebecca Hodes
Cape Town: HSRC Press (2014), viii, 216 pp.
"Broadcasting the Pandemic tells the story of a South African television show, Beat It! Created during the aspirational years of the political transition in which the broadcast media were poised to democratize the airwaves, Beat It! was first screened on public television in 1999 and developed into ... more
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Shamba Shape Up Series 4: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Survey Report

The Media Company (2014), 46 pp.
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Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change

Pradip N. Thomas
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 213-227
"This chapter will focus on the theorizing of communication and social change. It will argue that theory must enable people to know the world. It will also argue the limits to token participation and the unsustainability of "behavioral change communication'' that is theorized outside of structures, ... more
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Understanding News Geography and Major Determinants of Global News Coverage of Disasters

Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An
Arxiv - Cornell University Library (2014), 7 pp.
"In this work, we reveal the structure of global news coverage of disasters and its determinants by using a large-scale news coverage dataset collected by the GDELT (Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone) project that monitors news media in over 100 languages from the whole world. Significant va ... more
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Framing Sustainability: A Case Study Analysis of the Environment and Sustainability Discourse in the Indian English Language Press

Prithi Nambiar
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 93-110
"Using elements of framing and grounded theory, a qualitative interpretive case study analysis of environment and sustainability related articles from a leading English language fortnightly magazine in India reveals that highly emotive frames are being used in media construction of the environment a ... more
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Sentipensamientos: De la comunicación-desarrollo a la comunicación para el vivir bién

Adalid Contreras Baspineiro
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (UASB); Ediciones La Tierra (2014), 190 pp.
"Este libro demuestra cómo desde su cosmovisión —que entiende la espléndida existencia en la armonía de los hombres consigo mismos, en sociedad y con la naturaleza—, el suma qamaña/sumak kausay es una propuesta profundamente comunicacional sustentada en valores y prácticas comunitarias com ... more
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Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century

Helen Hughes
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2014), vii, 175 pp.
"During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to ... more
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"Wegsehen darf man nicht - aber auch nicht alles zeigen": Bildethik aus Sicht des katholischen Hilfswerks Adveniat. Ein Gespräch mit Nicola von Bonn

Nicola van Bonn, Petra Hemmelmann
Communicatio Socialis, volume 47, issue 4 (2014), pp. 438-447
"Natürlich ist Grundlage unserer Arbeit auch der Pressekodex. Darüber hinaus haben wir überlegt, was ist das Besondere von uns als katholisches Lateinamerika-Hilfswerk, als „Adveniat“. Wie spielt das mit rein in unsere Bildethik, unsere Ethik in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, die Ethik unserer B ... more
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Evaluating Health Communication Interventions

Gary L. Kreps
In: Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 352-367
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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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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

Joshua Lerner
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2014), viii, 267 pp.
"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro ... more
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The Network Society, Power and the Print Media in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Media Contestation in Durban for Environmental Justice

Llewellyn Leonard
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 966-981
"This article is interested in the extent to which various social actors in the Durban network society, such as civil society, corporations and the state, shape public information and perception in their own interests regarding environmental discourse. Empirical evidence presents viewpoints from key ... more
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Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Keyan G. Tomaselli
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 241-254
"This chapter examines the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) theology as the implicit background to Robert White's studies on development communication. We will then examine White's influence on the Center for Communication, Media and Society's graduate program in development communication." (Page ... more
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Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mass Media Interventions for Child Survival in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Danielle A. Naugle, Robert C. Hornik
Journal of Health Communication, volume 19, issue suppl. 1 (2014), pp. 190-215
"Through a systematic review of the literature, this article summarizes and evaluates evidence for the effectiveness of mass media interventions for child survival. To be included, studies had to describe a mass media intervention; address a child survival health topic; present quantitative data fro ... more
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Harnessing the Potential of ICTs for Literacy Teaching and Learning: Effective Literacy and Numeracy Programmes Using Radio, TV, Mobile Phones, Tablets, and Computers

Ulrike Hanemann
Hamburg: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2014), 195 pp.
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The Central African Republic: Media in a Complex Emergency

Michelle Betz, Suzanne Moll
International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 25 pp.
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Locating Disaster Communication in Changing Communicative Ecologies Across the Pacific

Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi, Heather Horst, Evangelia Papoutsaki
Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (AJTDE), volume 2, issue 4 (2014), 16 pp.
"According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster managem ... more