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The Role of Religious Actors in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theory-Based Empirical Analysis with Policy Recommendations for Action

Alexander Yendell, Oliver Hidalgo, Carolin Hillenbrand
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Universität Münster, Religion und Politik (2021), 144 pp.
"The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. On the other hand, there is far less public discussion on the key role played by religious communities as civil ... more
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Communications on Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss with Local Populations: Exploring Best-Practices and Postcolonial Moments in Eight Case Studies from Across the Globe

Dawud Ansari et al.
Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp.
"[...] in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicat ... more
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Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current State and Future Requirements in Information, Communication and International Cooperation

Jenny Teufel, Viviana Lopez
Bonn: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN); Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) (2021), 51 pp.
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Pacific Crises: COVID, Climate Emergency and West Papua

Philip Cass, David Robie (eds.)
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 1-2 (2021), pp. 1-174
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Communicating the Environment in Laos

Manfred Oepen
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 11, issue 1 (2021), 22 pp.
"This article reflects experiences and results from an environmental education and communication strategy (EECS) as part of a Lao-German development project of Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) over a 10-year period from 2011 to 2021. The article is divided into four parts. First ... more
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Media and Digital Technologies for Mixed Methods Research in Public Health Emergencies Such as COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Using Interactive Radio–SMS for Social Research in Somalia

Johanna Riha, Claudia Abreu Lopes, Naima Abdi Ibrahim, Sharath Srinivasan
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 304-326
"Radio shows which invite audience participation via short message service (SMS)—interactive radio–SMS—can be designed as a mixed methods approach for applied social research during COVID-19 and other crises in low and middle income countries. In the aftermath of a cholera outbreak in Somalia, ... more
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Persuasive Gaming in Context

Teresa de la Hera, Jeroen Jansz, Joost Raessens, Ben Schouten (eds.)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 264 pp.
"The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasi ... more
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Communication and Development: Participatory Action Research and Praxis for Social Justice

Srinivas R. Melkote, H. Leslie Steeves
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 83-99
"Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a subset of action research; it is critical research guided by an emancipatory interest. Critical PAR is committed to social transformation for justice. It is a heuristic approach, which incorporates a praxis that involves social and political action. PAR is c ... more
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Putting People First: Participatory Development Communication and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Guy Bessette
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 233-244
"Most effective agriculture, environment and natural resource management projects tend to be those in which community members, development practitioners or agriculture experts jointly identify research or development parameters and participate in the decision-making process. In these projects, commu ... more
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Transforming Gender Norms Through Communication: Minga Perú's Communicative Actions in the Amazon

Ami Sengupta, Arvind Singhal
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 302-321
"We illustrate the principles and processes of gender transformative communication by presenting a case study of a long-running social change initiative spearheaded by Minga Perú, a community-based organization in the Peruvian Amazon. Applying a gender and power lens, we illustrate how communicatio ... more
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Ill Advice: A Case Study in Facebook’s Failure to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation

Aoife Gallagher, Macckenzie Hart, Ciarán O'Connor
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 34 pp.
"Despite detailed policies on mis- and disinformation and promises to enforce them, social media platforms are failing to tackle prominent groups and individuals who spread false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines online. Using the World Doctors Alliance1 as a case study, a group that has spread var ... more
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Le rôle de la radio rurale dans la communication pour le développement au Mali

Adama Kodjo
Grenoble: Université Grenoble Alpes, Thèse de Doctorat (2021), 351 pp.
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Guía orientadora para la gestión de colecciones bibliográficas en bibliotecas escolares

Claudia Virginia Becerra Márquez, Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2021), 143 pp.
"La presente Guía orientadora para la gestión de colecciones en bibliotecas escolares está dirigida a bibliotecarios escolares, docentes, rectores de las instituciones educativas y líderes de calidad de las Entidades Territoriales Certificadas en Educación (ETC). En ella se brindan herramientas ... more
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Online Hate Network Spreads Malicious COVID-19 Content Outside the Control of Individual Social Media Platforms

N. Velásquez, R. Leahy et al.
Nature: Scientific Reports, volume 11, issue 11549 (2021), 8 pp.
"We show that malicious COVID-19 content, including racism, disinformation, and misinformation, exploits the multiverse of online hate to spread quickly beyond the control of any individual social media platform. We provide a first mapping of the online hate network across six major social media pla ... more
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Scaling Up Growth: Addressing Stunting in Tanzania Early (ASTUTE). Final Evaluation Report

IMA World Health; Development Media International; UKAID (2021), 31 pp.
"This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the ASTUTE media campaign. Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted before, during, and at the end of the campaign, with questions targeted to female caregivers and male heads of households when they were available. The impact of the camp ... more
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Increasing Demand for Modern Contraception in Burkina Faso with a Mass Media Campaign

Laura Burke (ed.)
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) (2021), 3 pp.
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Guidelines on Open and Distance Learning for Youth and Adult Literacy

Hamburg; Burnaby: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), ix, 89 pp.
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COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter in Four Asian Countries: Case Study of Risk Communication

Sungkyu Park, Sungwon Han, Kim, Jeongwook, Majid Molaie et al.
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 23, issue 3: e23272 (2021), 17 pp.
"COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has led to a global pandemic. The World Health Organization has also declared an infodemic (ie, a plethora of information regarding COVID-19 containing both false and accurate information circulated on the internet). Hence, it has become critical to test the veracity ... more
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Disaster Tales as Communication Tool for Increasing Risk Resilience

Paola Mazzoglio, Stefano Macchia, Enrico Gallo, Julia Winter, Pierluigi Claps
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, volume 12 (2021), pp. 341-354
"Agencies in charge of flood management use disaster reports (DRs) as the preferred source of information on past flooding events. A systematic survey of DRs prepared by Italian agencies suggests that DRs could be widely enhanced in view of targeting more effective communication to citizens, reinfor ... more
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Public Health Agencies Outreach Through Instagram During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Perspective

Aqdas Malik, M. Laeeq Khan, Anabel Quan-Haase
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, issue 61: e102346 (2021), 9 pp.
"Drawing on the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication framework, we sought to examine how leading health organizations use Instagram for communicating and engaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. We manually retrieved Instagram posts together with relevant metadata of four health organizations (WHO, ... more