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Barriers to Coverage of Transborder Environmental Issues in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia

Eric Freedman
Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2014), pp. 48-55
"Three former Soviet republics occupy Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, a region of serious transborder environmental problems, especially ones that involve water and energy. Most news organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan provide little in-depth coverage of these issues. Journalists ... more
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ICT Leadership in Higher Education: Selected Readings

Sanjaya Mishra (ed.)
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2014), 106 pp.
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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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A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa

Katherine Wright
London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 495 pp.
"Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists’ use of NGO-provided multim ... more
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Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), 383 pp.
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Nvtramkaiñ Kom Taiñ Ixofil Mogen: Reflection, Learning and Knowledge Sharing Through Indigenous Community Filmmaking. Final Technical Report

Thora Herrmann, Ariella Orbach
Montréal: Université de Montréal; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2014), 34 pp.
"Our project used video as a tool for enabling two Indigenous Mapuche communities in Chile, and particularly their youth, to approach and analyze local development issues and bring local perspectives to the forefront of debates on biocultural diversity conservation and equitable development. The pro ... more
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Sustainability Ethics: Ecology, Economy, Ethics. International Conference SusCon III, Shillong/India

Christoph Stückelberger, Sanjoy Mukherjee (eds.)
Geneva: Globethics.net (2014), 360 pp.
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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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Mass Communication Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

UNHCR; REACH (2014), 5 pp.
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Hashtag Standards for Emergencies

Roxanne Moore, Andrej Verity
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2014), 15 pp.
"Twitter is the primary social media platform discussed in this Think Brief. However, the use of hashtags has spread to other social media platforms, including Sina Weibo, Facebook, Google+ and Diaspora. As a result, the ideas behind hashtag standardization may have a much larger sphere of influence ... more
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Dissemination Tools and Materials

Andrea Castelletti, Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Cominola et al.
Smart H2O Project (2014), 29 pp.
"This report contains a detailed description of the SmartH2O project dissemination strategy and the tools set up to effectively support the communication of the project progress and results to a wide community of citizens, decision-makers, water utilities, and scientists. It reports dissemination an ... 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. July 2014

Forcier Consulting; Internews; USAID, July version (2014), 54 pp.
"This report demonstrates how providing information to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in South Sudan can dramatically increase their health, safety and well-being and make a positive impact on their lives in the midst of an ongoing conflict [...] Boda Boda Talk Talk (BBTT) was the first Humanit ... more
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Theatre for Development Practice and Development Communication

Jonathan Desen Mbachaga
Mkurdi: Journal of Arts and Culture, volume 12 (2014), pp. 81-96
"This paper discusses the place of theatre as a tool for development communication. In this regard, the paper projects the potency of theatre in enhancing development and its role in influencing social change. The paper submits that, development starts with people and not with ‘goods’. It includ ... more
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Interactive Radio for Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners

FHI 360 (2014), 149 pp.
"The primary audience of this toolkit is anyone using or planning to use radio to enhance the impact of their development programs. It does not assume any level of prior knowledge of interactive radio from the reader. It will primarily appeal to practitioners who are planning to work through establi ... more
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Textbook Development in Low Income Countries: A Guide for Policy and Practice

Richard A. B. Crabbe, Mary Nyingi, Helen Abadzi
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 199 pp.
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Konkorama: Radio Drama Raises Peace Awareness for Sierra Leonean Youth

Julia Krojer, Eustace U. Vin-Bah
In: Youth at the Heart of Peace Work
Christiane Kayser, Flaubert Djateng (eds.)
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2014), pp. 71-77
"Since the end of the civil war in Sierra Leone the organisation Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA), with its headquarters in Freetown and 13 branches all over the country, added Peace Building to its curriculum. In this field of work young people are a particular target group; youth ... more
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HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa: Are You Human?

Colin Chasi
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 89 pp.
"Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicab ... more
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Advocacy toolkit: Influencing the post-2015 development agenda

Amy Cutter, Ian Fen, Freya Seath
Sustainable Development 2015 (SD2015) Programme; CIVICUS; UN DESA (2014), 68 pp.
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Drama for Conflict Transformation Toolkit: Youth Theater for Peace

Washington, DC: IREX; USAID (2014), 73 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to introduce young people to an innovative theater methodology that creatively examines and transforms conflict. After working through the exercises in this manual, youth will be equipped to lead community dialogue as agents of positive change. The facilitation guide and th ... more
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Representaciones de la pobreza en contextos de crisis: Un ejercicio desde el análisis crítico del discurso

Martín Echeverría Victoria
Signo y Pensamiento, volume 23 (2014), pp. 78-94
"Se presenta un ejercicio de análisis crítico del discurso cuyo propósito es establecer las representaciones construidas por periodistas de opinión acerca de la pobreza, reproducidas en uno de los principales diarios de México en el momento estratégico de la crisis económica mundial de 2008-2 ... more