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Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti

Jessica Heinzelman, Carol Waters

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 16 pp.

"The traditional disaster-response system employed by relief actors in Haiti concentrated on enabling information-sharing among teams of responders from the international community. This system lacked the ability to aggregate and prioritize data that came from outside sources, making it difficult to ... more

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Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools and Textbooks

Elina Marmer, Dalia Marmer, Leona Hitomi, Papa Sow

International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, volume 10, issue 5 (2010), pp. 1-12

"Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African culture and philosophy are not covered by Eurocentric curricula. Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about A ... more

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How to Use Communication to Make Aid Effective: Strategies and Principles for Programme-Based Approaches

Silvio Waisbord, James Deane

London: BBC World Service Trust (2010), 26 pp.

"This review from the BBC World Service Trust examines why and how the role of communication can be mainstreamed into programme-based approaches (PBAs), one of the main methods now used by bilateral donors to disburse funding to developing countries. The review, which has been developed in associati ... more

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Ghana Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville, Anu Mohammed et al.

London: BBC World Service Trust;British Council (2010), 31 pp.

"Many Ghanaians do not understand the science of climate change, although they have noticed changes in the weather and seasons. They tell of rising temperatures, extended periods of drought and increasing variability in seasonal rainfall. Most people, however, do not connect these with global climat ... more

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Information Economy Report 2010: ICTs, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation

Torbjörn Fredriksson (ed.)

Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2010), xvii, 154 pp.

"The Information Economy Report 2010 focuses on the nexus of ICTs, enterprises and poverty alleviation. Whereas the knowledge base needs to grow considerably, the evidence presented in this Report suggests that more attention should be given by policymakers and other stakeholders to this new set of ... more

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Parler du sida au Nord-Cameroun

Henry Tourneux, Léonie Métangmo-Tatou (eds.)

Paris: Karthala, 2. éd. revue et corrigée (2010), 274 pp.

"Dans le cadre africain dit « francophone », les langues locales sont le parent pauvre de la réflexion sur la communication. Pourtant, une majorité d’Africains de ces pays ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les promoteurs (nationaux ou internationaux) de campagnes d’information et de conseil o ... more

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GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small Grants That Made Big Changes for Women in Agriculture

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2010), 45 pp.

"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and ... more

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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices

Richard Pinkham, Young-Ae Chu, Elisabetta Minelli, Netty Kamp et al.

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2010), 81 pp.

"The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholder ... more

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Kenya: Communicating with Policymakers About Development Issues. A Guide for International Development Community

David Montez

Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 52 pp.

"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with senior Kenyan government officials and policy influencers outside government (collectively referred to in this report as policy actors), to find out how they gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical to development policy work. The aim ... more

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Handbuch Medien in der politischen Bildung

Anja Besand, Wolfgang Sander (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 638 pp.

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Comunicación y desarrollo: Pasos hacia la coherencia

Raquel Martínez-Gómez, Mario Lubetkin (eds.)

Sevilla: Comunicación Social (2010), 224 pp.

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Theatre In/for Development in Tanzania: A Neoliberal Nightmare

Vicensia Shule

In: Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance

Kene Igweonu (ed.)

Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi (2010), pp. 191-215

"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi ... more

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The Moment is Frozen in Time: Photojournalists’ Metaphors in Describing Trauma Photography

Patrice Keats

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, volume 23, issue 3 (2010), pp. 231-255

"In describing their understanding of trauma, disaster, and conflict photography, photojournalists in this qualitative study conceptualized abstract experiences using specific types of metaphors. Their metaphors focused on concepts such as violence, bewilderment, and health/affliction. The unique as ... more

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Comunicación para el Desarrollo: Una herramienta para el cambio social y la participación. Experiencias y enfoques en Uruguay

Günther Cyranek (ed.)

Unesco, UN Uruguay (2010), 499 pp.

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The Pragmatic Politics of Media Reform: Media Movements and Coalition-Building in Latin America

Silvio Waisbord

Global Media and Communication, volume 6, issue 2 (2010), pp. 133-153

"This article analyzes the strategies and the impact of two ‘media movements’ in Latin America — the experiences of civic coalitions working on media policy reform in Uruguay, and advocacy journalism about tobacco control in Argentina — through interviewing the principle actors involved in t ... more

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El diseño de proyectos de educación a distancia: Páginas en construcción

Marta Haydée Mena

Buenos Aires: La Crujía (2010), 318 pp.

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Kommunikation von Nachhaltigkeit in Fernsehen und Web 2.0

Caroline Glathe

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), 157 pp.

"Nachhaltigkeit hat Hochkonjunktur – und doch ist das dahinter stehende Konzept längst nicht allen bekannt. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von Interesse, wie (ausgewählte) Medien das Nachhaltigkeitsleitbild kommunizieren, zur Aufklärung beitragen und Verhaltensänderungen von Konsumenten unterst ... more

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Video in Development
Key Guidance

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), 60 pp.

"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more

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Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda

Elisabeth Paluck Levy

American Political Science Review, volume 103, issue 4 (2009), pp. 622-644

"Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence. Although cross-national and cross-temporal variation in deference to authority and willingness to express ... more

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Internet-Based Smoking-Cessation Aids for Young People: Practical Experience and Current Evidence. Documentation of a FCHE Workshop Held in Berlin, 18-19 September 2008

Peter Lang, Mareike Strunk

Cologne: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2009), 95 pp.

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Video in Development
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