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Communicating a World-in-Crisis

Simon Cottle (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2025), xiv, 391 pp.
"We live in a world increasingly defined by systemic, deepening and compounding crises. They threaten not only future human existence but also the planetary web-of-life. With the help of academics, creative practitioners and activists, this book explores some of the innovative ways in which differen ... more
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Radiocommunications and climate change

Geneva: ITU (2025), vii, 26 pp.
"The role of radiocommunications in addressing climate change cannot be overstated. From providing critical information on weather patterns and natural disasters to facilitating coordination across global networks for disaster response, these technologies offer unmatched capabilities. As extreme wea ... more
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Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice

Richard West, Christina S. Beck
Abingdon: Routledge (2025), xix, 323 pp.
"This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice. Each chapter centralizes communication as instrumental in creating mediated messages pertaining to social justice, u ... more
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Indigenous knowledge and information technology for sustainable development

Randsome Bawack, Sian Roderick, Abdalla Badhrus, Denis Dennehy, Jacqueline Corbett
Information Technology for Development (2025), 18 pp.
"Despite the proliferation of IT applications worldwide, Indigenous knowledge remains marginalized in the mainstream information technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) discourse. This special section explores tensions and opportunities at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and digital te ... more
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Energy Discourse in Thai Media

Pijitra Suppasawatgul
Bangkok: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2025), 20 pp.
"The content analysis reveals that Thai media primarily focuses on energy issues related to policy, regulation, and economic aspects, with less attention to environmental concerns. This emphasis reflects the top-down structure of the Thai energy industry and the economic implications of traditional ... more
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Die Rapper aus dem Regenwald

Sarah Fernandes
welt-sichten, 14. Januar (2025)
"Im Amazonasgebiet, abgelegen von den brasilianischen Metropolen, hat sich eine lebendige Rap-Szene etabliert. Anders als im Großstadt-Rap geht es in ihren Texten weniger um soziale Ungleichheit, sondern vor allem um Umweltzerstörung und kulturelle Identität." (Einleitung)
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Attracting Volunteers Through Social Media Marketing in Environmental Organizations

Ali Çetinkaya, Yusuf Bilgin, Kübra Elmalı
Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing (2025), 31 pp.
"Nowadays, environmental organizations have strategically leveraged social media platforms to raise environmental awareness, promote pro-environmental behavior, manage environmental campaigns, and encourage environmental volunteerism. This study aims to investigate the impact of social media marketi ... more
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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco

Alice Malpass, Elspeth Penny, Andrew Russell
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126
"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an ... more
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Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy

Filippo Trevisan, Michael Vaughan, Ariadne Vromen
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), vi, 249 pp.
"Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to "share your story" are widespread on advocacy organizations and politic ... more
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Effective Serious Games Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
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Philipp Busch
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (2025), xii, 222 pp.
"This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future setting who overcomes the challenges of a typical development pro ... more
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Don’t Talk to Strangers? The Role of Network Composition, WhatsApp Groups, and Partisanship in Explaining Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 in Brazil

Patricia Rossini, Antonis Kalogeropoulos
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 113-130
"The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the ... more
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Walking the faultline of fear: How affect-inducing risk communication can help promote disaster preparedness

Caroline Rowe, Caroline Orchiston, Fabien Medvecky
Journal of Science Communication, volume 24, issue 6 (2025), 24 pp.
"This paper uses New Zealand’s AF8 [Alpine Fault Magnitude 8] program, designed to build resilience and preparedness for earthquakes, as a real-world example to explore how emotional appeals can affect preparedness intentions within the emergency management sector. Drawing on template analysis of ... more
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The Alternative Truth Kept Hidden From Us: The Effects of Multimodal Disinformation Disseminated by Ordinary Citizens and Alternative Hyper-Partisan Media. Evidence From the US and India

Michael Hameleers, Darian Harff, Désirée Schmuck
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 8 (2025), pp. 1351-1372
"The affordances of social media potentially amplify the effects of disinformation by offering the possibility to present deceptive content and sources in credible and native ways. We investigate the effects of two aspects related to the dissemination and modality of digital disinformation: (In)auth ... more
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Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report

Marius Dragomir
Tallinn; London: Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2025), 38 pp.
"The central research question — to what extent media representation aligns with crisis severity — underpins an analysis of 78,667 news articles spanning 10 of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, from Sudan and Ethiopia to Ukraine and Gaza. Drawing from English-language media in eight c ... more
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Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
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London: Care International (2025), 26 pp.
"Humanitarian crises are challenges affecting millions of people. They are diverse and global – be they natural disasters, famine crises, conflicts or wars. However, the attention of the global public is usually focused on a few, particularly prominent crises. With this Crisis Report, which is bei ... more
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Télévision et santé: Conditions de production des émissions télévisées de santé à Kinshasa

Mireille Lusiense Zena
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"La production d’émissions de santé publique à la télévision à Kinshasa contribue à la sensibilisation, la diffusion et l’éducation de la population sur des thématiques et des informations sanitaires : les maladies transmissibles, la santé maternelle et infantile… Cependant, pour l ... more
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Challenges of Journalists Across All Continents in the Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rut Gomez-Sobrino, Daniel Catalan-Matamoros
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 2019-2040
"During the COVID-19 crisis, journalists doubled efforts to keep societies informed, safe, and disease-free. The study examines and compares specific challenges that journalists, based in diverse world regions, confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted with 215 journalists work ... more
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
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Ann Searight Christiano, Angela Bradbery
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises ... more
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SpinozAI: Augmenting Journalism with Innovation and Ethics

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2025), 15 pp.
"The Spinoza project aims to develop an open-source AI tool that ensures the integrity, traceability, and ownership of its data. It is co-designed with journalists and publishers and its first prototype focuses on climate change issues. The initial concept was launched by Reporters Without Borders ( ... more
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Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures

Jenna Imad Harb
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re ... more