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Combating COVID-19 with ICT: Effective Practices and Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region

Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2021), 37 pp.
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Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)

Valerie Hase, Daniela Mahl, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias R. Keller
Global Environmental Change, volume 70, issue 102353 (2021), 12 pp.
"Climate change poses a challenge to countries across the world, with news media being an important source of information on the issue. To understand how and how much news media cover climate change, this study compares coverage in ten countries from the Global North and the Global South between 200 ... more
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Video Games as Tools for Non-State Cultural Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Video Game 'Never Alone'

Amanda Rodríguez Espínola
Boulder: University of Colorado, doctoral thesis (2021), x, 272 pp.
"With rapidly changing digital platforms and the impact of globalization on cultural diplomacy that has provoked the increasing mediatization of the field, non-state actors are now able to expand networks and gain legitimacy by addressing new publics using digital spaces. While the research about th ... more
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Combating Disinformation in the Arab World. Case Study: The COVID-19 Pandemic

Noha Atef
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ); Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2021), 43 pp.
"In this paper, ARIJ proposes the following recommendations which target the greater media community. This includes media institutions concerned with the press, unions, press unions and donors who support this venture. We maintain that disinformation is a product of a social and political environmen ... more
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Endogenous Wisdom in Action - the Positive Deviance Approach: An Alternative Conceptualization of Communication and Social Change Praxis

Arvind Singhal, Monique Sternin, Shafique Muhammad, Lucía Durá
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 154-171
"This chapter describes and analyzes an alternative communication and social change praxis called the Positive Deviance (PD) approach. Anchored in the traditions of wisdom, PD is based on identifying, amplifying and assessing problem-solving endogenous wisdom that is hidden and elusive, context-cent ... more
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Understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on skills development

Kelly Shiohira
Paris; Bonn: UNESCO; UNEVOC (2021), 55 pp.
"This paper synthesizes research on current trends, programmes, policies and uses of AI related to technical and vocational education and training across six continents, covering developing and developed contexts, as a resource for stakeholders invested in the future of intermediate-level workers an ... more
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Giga: Empowering communities in Asia and the Pacific through school connectivity

Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 92 pp.
"Giga, a joint collaboration between ITU and UNICEF, is an initiative to connect every young person in the world to information, opportunity and choice. Devised before the onslaught on COVID-19, the project addresses the underlying inequities in access to the Internet. However, it is also a platform ... more
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Fighting Disinfodemic in Central Africa: Fact-Checkers Experience Against Covid-19 Fake News

Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
In: Perspectivas Multidisciplinares Da Comunicação Em Contexto De Pandemia. Vol I
F. R. Cádima, I. Ferreira (coord.)
Coleção ICNOVA (2021), pp. 144-164
"This chapter discusses two cases of new media formats combining journalistic skills, creativity and innovation when communicating risk and acting against disinfodemic, the collaborative website ‘Talato’ for fact-checking on the coronavirus in CAR and the fact-checking online platform ‘Congo C ... more
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Technologies for Data Collection, Processing and Communication in Education in Emergencies: Mapping Practices and Opportunities in the MENA Region and Globally

USAID (2021), 47 pp.
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Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma

Bankole Falade, Mercy Murire (eds.)
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 401 pp.
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Educational Radio Broadcasting and its Effectiveness on Adult Literacy in Lagos

Bernice O. Sanusi, Olajide Talabi, Felix, Omowale T. Adelabu, Moyosore Alade
Sage Open, volume 11, issue 2 (2021), pp. 1-8
"Education has been identified as one of the most important ways to achieve national development. With 3 million nonliterate adults in Lagos State, the commercial nerve center of the nation, radio becomes a veritable medium to teach such adults who, for several reasons including economic, do not hav ... more
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Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

Peter Van Aelst, Fanni Toth, Laia Castro, Václav Štetka, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg et al.
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1208-1238
"Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of ‘need for orientation’ and the literature on the role of the media in times of crisis, we investigate to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic a ... more
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When ‘Seeing Was Believing’: Visual Advocacy in the Early Decades of Humanitarian Cinema

Valérie Gorin
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 18-27
"Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American Relief Administration. While aid agencies obse ... more
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A Qualitative Examination of Alcohol Use and IPV Among Nepali Couples in a Violence Prevention Intervention

Terah Kalk, Binita Shrestha, Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Gemma Ferguson, Irina Bergenfeld, Zoe Robbin
Global Public Health, volume 16, issue 4 (2021), pp. 597-609
"Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts the physical and mental health of one in three women globally, with equally high rates in rural Nepal. The risk of physical violence, stalking, harassment, and homicide between intimate partners increases when alcohol is used by the perpetrator. This study ev ... more
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The Sustainability Communication Reader: A Reflective Compendium

Franzisca Weder, Larissa Krainer, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2021), xxi, 591 pp.
"The Textbook seeks for an innovative approach to Sustainability Communication as transdisciplinary area of research. Following the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to transform the world as it is known, we seek for a multidisciplinary discussion of the role communica ... more
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Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition Project: Reach and Engagement Survey Afghanistan

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 4 pp.
"BBC Media Action is helping to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus in Afghanistan by using a media campaign to encourage uptake of preventive behaviours. Informed by research the project’s media outputs aim to help reduce the transmission of the coronavirus by encouraging take up of the fo ... more
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Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy

W. Lance Bennett
Cambridge; Medford: Polity Press (2021), x, 201 pp.
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Évaluation des besoins et de l’usage de la connectivité dans les contextes humanitaires: Guide d’utilisation de la Boîte à Outils

London: GSMA (2021), 39 pp.
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Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones

Max Schleser, Xiaoge Xu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 275 pp.
"This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together intern ... more
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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.
"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more