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Communicating Climate Change

London: Apolitical (2023)

"Climate change is complex and multifaceted and can prompt a whole host of emotional reactions. This free course will take you step-by-step through the journey of creating effective, powerful climate communications, from setting objectives to identifying key messages to evaluating your success." (ht ... more

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From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Development Communication to Sustainability Communication

Sigrid Kannengießer

Studies in Communication Sciences, volume 23, issue 1 (2023), pp. 121-135

"At the highest international political level, the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 after having announced (and later not fulfilled) the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. This shift from the MDGs to the SDGs, in which the term development was replac ... more

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Journalistic role conceptions and performance in the global south: A comparison between Egypt and the UAE during COVID-19

Maha Abdulmajeed, Rasha El-Ibiary

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 8 (2023), pp. 646-662

"Journalists in Egypt and the UAE have been differently challenged by the COVID-19 situation at multiple levels, (1) individual (2) work/routines and (3) media/organizational while covering COVID-19. Using the hierarchy of influences model, we analyze the differentiated journalists’ role conceptio ... more

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Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie

Hans Jürgen Wulff, Martha-Lotta Körber, Ludger Kaczmarek

Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.

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Communication for Social Changemaking: A “new Spirit” in Media and Communication for Development and Social Change?

Jessica Noske-Turner

International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2944-2966

"In pockets of media and communication for development and social change (MCDSC) a distinct set of practices around a worldview emphasizing optimism, chic, creativity, boldness, and “changemaking” is emerging. This trend is in stark contrast with the momentum of our current academic debates expl ... more

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Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response: Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

CDAC Network (2023), 5 pp.

"Despite the strides made towards strengthening two-way communication and dialogue in the regional response to the Sudan crisis, there remain critical gaps inhibiting the effectiveness of collective efforts. The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Regional Refugee Response Plan should allocate ... more

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How Are Africans Talking About Climate Change and Who is Doing the Talking?

Rebecca Pointer, Samuel Mtsiko

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 247-271

"This study identifies who is talking about climate change in Africa, both in the mainstream media and on Twitter, and analyses the key messages emerging from the different platforms. For the mainstream media, we used Google’s Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) platform to access ... more

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Narrative Change Around Disability & Climate Change: Insights and Recommendations from Stakeholders and Community Members in the Niger Delta

Olesya Dovgalyuk, Okoro Onyekachi Emmanuel

New Media Advocacy Project (2023), 67 pp.

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Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on the SDGs: The Case of Mayu Telecomunicaciones in Rural Areas of Peru

Ignacio Prieto-Egido, Teresa Sanchez-Chaparro, Julia Urquijo-Reguera

Information Technology for Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2023), pp. 103-127

"Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are considered a cross-cutting tool that contributes to meeting the global challenges set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, in many countries, there is still a significant connectivity gap between cities and rural areas. Using ... more

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Global Innovation in Emergency Telecommunications: Strengthening Disaster Response in the Philippines

World Food Programme (WFP) (2023), 6 pp.

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Using Videos in Floods and Bushfires to Educate, Signal Risk, and Promote Protectice Action in the Community

Paula Dootson, Erica Kuligowski, Scott Murray

Safety Science, volume 164, issue 106166 (2023), 13 pp.

"Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined ... more

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Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
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Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Insung Jung (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2023), 1437 pp.

"This open access handbook offers a one-stop-shop for both new and established researchers, educators, policy makers and administrators in the field of open, distance and digital education (ODDE) to gain a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice at all levels of ODDE, and at the s ... more

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ChatGTP and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Paris; Caracas: UNESCO;UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) (2023), 14 pp.

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Deny, Deceive, Delay (vol.2): Exposing New Trends in Climate Mis- and Disinformation at COP27

Climate Action Against Disinformation (2023), 43 pp.

"Analysis of over 850 advertisers between 1 September and 23 November 2022 showed a small cohort drove the majority of false or greenwashed advertising on Facebook, with activity peaking in the weeks preceding and during COP27. Common techniques included ‘nature-rinsing’, to distract and mislead ... more

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UK Aid Match: Real Aid or Charity-Washing?

Martin Scott

All-Party Parlimentary Group for Aid Match;University of East Anglia (2023), 32 pp.

"UK Aid Match (UKAM) is a match-funding scheme, funded by the UK government, designed to incentivise greater charitable giving amongst the UK public towards projects that reduce poverty in developing countries. For every £1 donated to a UKAM charity appeal, the government also contributes £1 of UK ... aid – usually up to £2 million. This report examines UKAM’s communication requirements and considers their potential limitations, contradictions, inconsistencies, and political implications. UKAM’s overall aim is to allow the British public to have a say in how UK aid is spent and provide opportunities to engage with international development issues, whilst boosting the impact of civil society projects to reach the poorest people in developing countries8. According to the UKAM documents analysed for this report, all participating Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are required to comply with various communication requirements, to be eligible for government matchfunding, most notably to use a pro bono communications partnership that can provide at least 400,000 opportunities for the UK public to view information about the appeal and the match funding offer. [...] This report shows that UKAM appeals have generally been very successful in achieving their communications objectives. Since 2011, UKAM appeals have generated over 14 billion unique Opportunities To be Viewed (OTVs) by the UK public. These communications include appeals involving Ministers, Parliamentarians or the Secretary of State receiving over 45 million OTVs in 2019 alone14. In just the February 2020 round of UKAM , the ‘value in kind for pro bono communications’ of the 1.7bn OTVs was given as £2.2 million. However, this report also highlights several concerning contradictions with UKAM’s current communication requirements. For example, setting a minimum requirement for generating ‘Opportunities to View’ (OTV) appears likely to restrict the participation of NGOs with smaller marketing capabilities. This limits the extent to which UKAM can achieve its stated objective – in line with two consecutive Conservative Party Manifesto commitments – to ‘give the public a say in how a portion of the UK aid budget is spent. This report also notes that UKAM funding has only amounted to approximately 0.2% of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) since 2011, while ODA has been reduced to 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI)18. Given this, the 14 billion OTVs generated by UKAM may inadvertently give the UK public a misleading impression of the true extent to which they are directing a portion of the UK aid budget to their favoured charities. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that – rather than giving the UK public a greater say in directing UK aid – incentivising campaigns to have greater reach may instead be providing greater reputational benefits to government Ministers – who charities are required to feature in their campaigns." (Executive summary, pages 5-6) more

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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda

Kathryn L. Hopkins, Chelsey Lepage, Wendy Cook et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60

"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can ... more

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Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

Tobias Ide

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), 291 pp.

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Metaverse und Gaming: Potenziale für die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 88 pp.

"Diese Studie trägt dazu bei, ein Verständnis für das Thema ,Gaming‘ und seine Derivate zu vermitteln und mithilfe von interdisziplinären, theoriegeleiteten Übersichten, Modellen und Handlungsempfehlungen eine praxisorientierte, qualifizierte Extended Gaming Literacy für Akteur:innen der Aus ... more

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Addressing Environmental Sustainability Through the OECD DAC Criteria for Evaluation of Development Assistance

Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 9 pp.

"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter ... more

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Interconnected Disaster Risks

Caitlyn Eberle, Zita Sebesvari, Liliana Narvaez et al.

Bonn: United Nations University (UNU) (2023), 92 pp.

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