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Disaster Radio: Indonesia's Experience

Imam Prakoso et al.
Consortium Radar Tangguh; Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (2022), 221 pp.
"When a large-scale natural disaster occurs, such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane, or Covid-19, there will be "maldistribution or gap" in various aspects. Disparities in the shelter, gaps in aid or food items, gaps in access to health care, vaccine gaps, and so on. Inequality creates ... more
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Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit: Medienpraktiken für ein gutes Leben

Sigrid Kannengießer
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022), xi, 277 pp.
"Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen Folgen aktueller Digitalisierungsprozesse und zeigt anhand dreier Fallstudien ... more
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Status of Digital Agriculture in 47 Sub-Saharan African Countries
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FAO; ITU (2022), x, 351 pp.
"It aims at providing a holistic view of digital transformation in the agriculture sector of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s digital agriculture landscape is assessed through six key themes, namely: infrastructure, digital penetration, policy and regulation, business environment, ... more
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Paulo Freire (honoured person)
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures; Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ ... more
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Art & Climate Justice: Voices for Just Climate Action

Diana Quiroz, Manon Stravens, Eline Achterberg
Amsterdam: Profundo Research & Advice; Hivos (2022), 66 pp.
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Typhoon Rai Response: The Role of the Mobile Industry

Zoe Hamilton, Clara Aranda
GSMA (2022), 8 pp.
"Typhoon Rai has proven to be one of the most damaging disasters to have hit the Philippines. However, around 400 lives were lost due to Typhoon Rai compared to disasters like Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, when 6,300 people died. The significantly lower number of deaths highlights the country’s experien ... more
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Digitalising Rural MSMEs: Thailand’s Agriculture and Tourism Sectors

Sone Osakwe
London: GSMA (2022), 58 pp.
"Thailand faces the dual challenge of swiftly navigating the disruptions caused by COVID-19 while also enabling sustainable and inclusive development. To enable inclusive development, Thailand must focus on building resilience and enhancing the productivity of micro, small and medium enterprises (MS ... more
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Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights
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Lucas Paulson
Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs; Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn ... more
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Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung

Youssef Ibrahim, Simone Rödder (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 461 pp.
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Biodiversity Communication at the UN Summit 2020: Blending Business and Nature

Matt Drury, Janet Fuller, Merel Keijzer
Discourse & Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2022), pp. 37-57
"Biodiverse ecosystems play a key role in maintaining life on earth. In response to rapid declines in biodiversity throughout the world, the UN Biodiversity Summit 2020 brought together world leaders to discuss potential solutions. We draw on cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and ec ... more
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World Risk Report 2022. Focus: Digitalization

Franziska Atwii, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Lotte Kirch et al.
Berlin; Bochum: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft; Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (2022), 63 pp.
"Digitalization has significantly changed disaster preparedness and management. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are used in all phases of disaster management for knowledge acquisition, information dissemination, communication, as well as control. Examples include the use of global d ... more
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WeltRisikoBericht 2022. Fokus: Digitalisierung

Peter Mucke et al.
Bochum: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV) (2022), 75 pp.
"Wie jedes Jahr wird der WeltRisikoIndex durch ein Fokusthema ergänzt. Dieses Jahr beschäftigen wir uns mit der Digitalisierung. Die Autor:innen analysieren auf der Basis qualitativer Forschung die große Bedeutung digitaler Lösungen für die Katastrophenrisikoreduzierung und die vorausschauende ... more
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Indigene Resistencia: Der Widerstand der bolivianischen TIPNIS-Bewegung

Maximilian Held
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 273 pp.
"Die Ausbeutung natürlicher Ressourcen und Infrastrukturprojekte bedrohen die Lebensgrundlagen indigener Bevölkerungen in vielen Staaten Lateinamerikas. Wie der Konflikt um das Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS) zeigt, stellte Bolivien während der Amtszeiten des ersten ... more
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Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Using Games to Drive Innovation and Facilitate Learning
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Henning Breuer, John Bessant, Sune Gudiksen (eds.)
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), 219 pp.
"This book introduces the potential of gamification and games to solve the great societal and organisational challenges that corporations and public institutions are dealing with today. It is written for innovation professionals, entrepreneurs, game designers, and students who seek to understand and ... more
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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ... more
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Covid-19 Response in West Africa-Sahel Through Communication and Information

UNESCO (2022), 11 pp.
"This programme and meeting document contains details and reflections on the Communication and Information Programme that developed activities such as the promotion of access to credible and reliable information on the pandemic, journalists' safety, media development, media and information literacy ... more
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Trends in the Media’s Coverage of Covid-19 in SADC, 1 January - 31 June 2021

Media Monitors; UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"This report provides an assessment of the reporting trends in the coverage of COVID-19 in nine SADC countries. The countries are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Stories published between 1 January and 30 June 2021 were selected from 38 ne ... more
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Understanding the Infodemic of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

Daria B. Kazarinova
Russia in Global Affairs, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 83-104
"The article analyzes the QAnon phenomenon and the anti-vaxxer movement of COVID-19 deniers as typological manifestations of conspiratorial “alternative rationality.” A number of hypotheses have been proposed: during a pandemic and a parallel infodemic, conspiracy thinking quickly becomes transb ... more
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Defeating COVID-19 Poverty Through Community Radios: Lessons Learnt and Good Practices

Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office (2022), 21 pp.
"The project Promotion of Resilient Communities: Addressing COVID-19-related Poverty by Community Radios in South and Southeast Asia was implemented by the World Association of Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Asia-Pacific regional office to support community radios in four countries - Bangladesh, India, ... more
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Condiciones de vida de los venezolanos ENCOVI 2022

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2022), 54 slides
"En 2022 se ha observado una ralentización del nivel de la actividad económica (7,2%) en comparación al segundo semestre de 2021 y se pronostica que todavía caerá en 2023 (4,4%), a niveles insuficientes para la recuperación a los niveles pre-crisis. Una combinación de factores dan cuenta de e ... more