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A Treatment for Viral Deception? Automated Moderation of COVID-19 Disinformation

Julia Haas

Universität Innsbruck (2022), 110 pp.

"This paper examines responses to disinformation, in particular those involving automated tools, from a human rights perspective. It provides an introduction to current automated content moderation and curation practices, and to the interrelation between the digital information ecosystem and the phe ... more

Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change

Joanna Wild, Femi Nzegwu (eds.)

Cape Town; Oxford: African Minds;International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2022), viii, 171 pp.

Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

Tabisa Mayisela, Shanali C. Govender, Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams (eds.)

Cape Town: African Minds (2022), xi, 396 pp.

"This volume investigates the uptake of 'open learning' in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to prom ... more

Theatre for Development (TfD): Historical and Institutional Perspectives

Abdul Karim Hakib

München: Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2022), 198 pp.

El campo de la comunicación participativa en América Latina

César Augusto Rocha Torres

Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2022), 247 pp.

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Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Robert Cox

Thousand Okas et al.: Sage, 6th ed. (2022), xxix, 358 pp.

"The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phae ... more

Data sovereignty in agricultural value chains

Dalberg Data, Frederic Pivetta, Joan Kirungi et al.

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 50 pp.

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Games for Actors and Non-Actors

Augusto Boal

New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2022), xxxiv, 354 pp.

"Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors and non-actors alike! Thi ... more

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Agroenvironmental narratives of transformative resistance: How participatory videos frame climate change in India

Pooja Ichplani

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-63

"Shifting attention from the United Nations’ focus on perpetrators of climate change to climate change victims, this qualitative content analysis uses a constructivist paradigmatic approach to examine the participatory video narratives produced by local media producers in rural India. Based on the ... more

O uso de aplicativos em práticas pedagógicas: Posibilidades metodológicas

Ana Valéria Barbosa da Silva, André Luiz Lopes de Araujo, Carla Lira Mendes dos Santos et al.

São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2022), 173 pp.

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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.

"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna ... more

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Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep

Stephen Jukes, Karen Fowler-Watt, Gavin Rees

Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 6 (2022), pp. 997-1014

"The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face of a hidden enemy. But this is not a distant war where journalists are parachuted in to report on the action for a few weeks and then fly home. It is on our own doorstep. Many of those covering the globa ... more

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Precariously Employed Climate Journalists: The Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia

Mushfique Wadud

Journalism Practice, issue 2-3 (2022), pp. 262-280

"Declines in the number of foreign correspondents and bureaus have caused media to rely on freelance journalists, particularly on coverage of complex and topical issues such as climate change. This study examines the challenges freelance climate journalists in South Asia face and how they negotiate ... more

Aquele outro mundo que é o mundo: Cinco anos de bolsas de criação jornalística sobre desenvolvimento

Adriano Miranda, Alexandre Nhampossa, André Cunha et al.

Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2022), 378 pp.