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Regional Segment Profiles

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 7 pp.
"In order to understand people’s needs and identify opportunities to communicate with them effectively, Climate Asia has analysed survey data from across the seven project countries – Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, and China – and placed people into five discrete segme ... more
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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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Improving Communication Between Humanitarian Aid Agencies and Crisis-Affected People: Lessons from the Infoasaid Project

Carole Chapelier, Anita Shah
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) (2013), 26 pp.
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Participatory Visual and Digital Methods

Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper
London, New York: Routledge (2013), 227 pp.
"Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public-engaged ethnography. These methods can change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community, building one that is more accessible, inclusive, and visually appeali ... more
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How the people of Bangladesh live with climate change and what communication can do

Md. Arif Al Mamun, Naomi Stoll, Sonia Whitehead
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 70 pp.
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Social Media in Emergencies: 101 Seminar Report

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Gregory Barrow
CDAC Network (2013), 10 pp.
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ICTs and Development: A Study of Telecentres in Rural India

Maitrayee Mukerji
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.
"This volume juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D and telecentres with in-depth empirical case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecenters in rural India to draw implications for policy and practice. It suggest that access and use of telecentres and their services are mediated by the ... more
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Lost: Syrian Refugees and the Information Gap

Janine di Giovanni (coord.)
Internews (2013), 16 pp.
"The report presents findings that pose both unique challenges and opportunities for programs seeking to provide humanitarian information to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. So far, according to the report, there is little evidence of any comprehensive strategy or investment in providing a humanitarian c ... more
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The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking

Mike Rohde
San Francisco: Peachpit Press; Pearson Education (2013), xv, 205 pp.
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media

Suzanne Franks
London: Hurst (2013), x, 236 pp.
"The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of ... 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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Communication for Development Interventions in Fragile States: A Systematic Review

Andrew Skuse, Dianne Rodger, Gerry Power, Domenic Friguglietti, Tait Brimacombe
JBI Database of Systematic Reviews & Implementation Reports (2013), 190 pp.
"This review identifies that while different initiatives can be pursued in different conflict situations, their direction and content needs to be driven by a close understanding of context, which in turn is driven by a range of influencing factors (contextual and programmatic), which in turn reflect ... more
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Humanitäre Hilfe und Medien

Markus Moke, Maria Rüther
In: Handbuch Humanitäre Hilfe
Jürgen Lieser, Dennis Dijkzeul (eds.)
Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer (2013), pp. 171-182
"In diesem Kapitel geht es um die Rolle der Medien in der humanitären Hilfe und um das Zusammenspiel von Medien und humanitären Akteuren bei der Katastrophenberichterstattung und der damit verbundenen Spendenwerbung. Dabei wird insbesondere der Frage nachgegangen, wie Medien und Hilfsorganisatione ... more
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Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty

James Painter
London; New York: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xvi, 173 pp.
"Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the ‘risks‘ posed by climate change rather than the ‘uncertainties‘ can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger ... 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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Developing countries in the e-learning era

Christian Depover, François Orivel
Paris: UNESCO; International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (2012), 97 pp.
"In addition to reducing geographical isolation,distance education, thanks to its more favourable cost structure, allows the monitoring of social and economic remoteness.It may thus have much to offer for developing countries. Digital technologies not only bring remote populations closer, they also ... more
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Theatre for Development: A Tanzanian Road Towards Citizenship and Cultural Renewal

Hilde Kvam
Journal of Urban Culture Research, volume 5 (2012), pp. 44-52
"During the 60s, Theatre for Development was introduced into several states in Africa. The focus at that time was to utilize theatre as a tool of communication in development projects. During the 80s Tanzania developed their own variant of this genre through the initiative of the University of Dar e ... more
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Participatory Video with Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Program Report

Sara Asadullah
Oxford: InsightShare (2012), 57 pp.
"In 2011 five UK-based development agencies were given a unique opportunity to pilot the use of participatory video with farmers in six sub-Saharan countries, through small supplementary grants awarded by Comic Relief. The UK-based funder Comic Relief recognises that the impacts of climate change th ... more
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Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists & Engineers

Felice Frankel, Angela H. DePace
New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press (2012), 53 pp.
"Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers-even those with no previous design training-with creating effective visual ... more
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Humanitarian Campaigns in Social Media: Network Architectures and Polymedia Events

Mirca Madianou
Journalism Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2012), pp. 249-266
"Social media and social networking sites (SNS) in particular have become popular in current humanitarian campaigns. This article assesses the optimism surrounding the opportunities that SNS communication offers for humanitarian action and for the cultivation of cosmopolitan sensibilities. In order ... more