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The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters

Stijn Joye
Journal of International Communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61
"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise ... more
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Designs, Devices and Development: Audience Research as Creative Resource in the Making of an Afghan Radio Drama

Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153
"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust ... more
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Climate-Change Journalism in China: Opportunities for International Cooperation

Sam Geall
Copenhagen; Beijing: International Media Support (IMS); Caixin Media (2011), 137 pp.
"How do Chinese journalists cover climate-Change stories – and what opportunities for international cooperation in the field of climate change reporting exist for funders, NGOs and governments? These are the two related questions that this report attempts to address. The report – produced jointl ... more
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Overcoming Barriers to TB Control: The Role of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM). Training Curriculum

USAID (2011), 98, 25, 40, 22 pp.
"Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) refers to a set of interventions that supports tuberculosis (TB) control goals and objectives at international, national, and local levels. These include advocating for sufficient resources, promoting healthy behaviors and attitudes, and engag ... more
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Media and Social Justice

Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, Lora Taub-Pervizpour (eds.)
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), viii, 275 pp.
"This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international media activist projects such as the Right to Communication movement and its corollaries; the importa ... more
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Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Jane B. Singer et al.
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xi, 227 pp.
"This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclu ... more
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Lectura, escritura y desarrollo en la sociedad de la información

Jesús Martín-Barbero, Gemma Lluch
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 306 pp.
"Este documento resume los principales logros del proyecto de investigación 'Lectura, escritura y desarrollo en la sociedad de la información' encargado por el Cerlalc y la AECID. La identidad del proyecto está en la forma de entender las experiencias de lectoescrituras: no como procesos aislados ... more
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Disaster Through a Different Lens: Behind Every Effect, There is a Cause. A Guide for Journalists Covering Disaster Risk Reduction

Brigitte Leoni
United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR); European Commission’s Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection Directorate General (ECHO) (2011), 188 pp.
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Community Media Citizen’s Debate: Handbook for the Community Media Sector and Civil Society Institutions

Münster: European Youth4Media Network (2011), 51 pp.
"Our association is already five years old. During those five years we’ve managed to achieve a lot. Above all, we’ve built a structure which allows us to develop futher. In addition, we’ve managed to transfer our mission and common goals onto concrete actions and programs. For five years we’ ... more
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Otras voces, otras imágenes: Radio y televisión local en el Perú

Giuliana Cassano (ed.)
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones (2011), 191 pp.
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The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society

Hemant Shah
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2011), viii, 218 pp.
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla ... more
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Uganda Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville, David Musiime, Allan Oniba Alana
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 31 pp.
"In May 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in Uganda to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 12 focus group discussions with Ugandan citizens, as well as 18 in-depth interviews wit ... more
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Social Issues in Television Fiction

Lesley Henderson
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2010), vi, 200 pp.
"The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexua ... more
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Communicating Biodiversity: Workshop Background Document for Capacity Building in the Framework of the Life+ Supported Project, European Capitals of Biodiversity

IUCN Regional Office for Pan-Europe; Deutsche Umwelthilfe (2010), 30 pp.
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Democratic Republic of Congo Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Miriam Burton, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Anna Godfrey (comp.)
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 35 pp.
"Between September and November 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in DR congo to gauge public understanding of climate change. the research consisted of 12 focus group discussions in six locations with congolese ci ... more
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Collaborative Change: A Communication Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Food Security

Rome: FAO (2010), 47 pp.
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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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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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Periodismo ambiental: Riesgos y oportunidades en la cobertura Informativa

Ricardo Trotti, Sauro González Rodríguez (eds.)
Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) (2010), 74 pp.
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communications Practices for Governance and Sustainabilty Improvement

Lawrence J. M. Haas, Leonardo Mazzei, Donal T. O'Leary
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xiv, 40 pp.
"The multipurpose Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is designed to transfer water from the water-abundant highlands of Lesotho to the Gauteng region of South Africa (its industrial heartland) and provide hydropower to Lesotho through a series of dams, weirs, delivery tunnels, and associated inf ... more