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Effects of Fundraising Alliances on Charitable Donations

Robert J. Fisher, Oliver Rutz
Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing (2025), 20 pp.
"Fundraising Alliances (FAs) are independent organizations that fundraise for two or more charities under a separate brand. High-profile examples of FAs include the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in the United Kingdom and the Humanitarian Coalition (HCC) in Canada. FAs are designed to reduce pr ... more
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Effective Climate Communication: Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action

Anastasia Denisova
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xiii, 203 pp.
"This book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. While many books have been written about climate change, this book goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act. In a direct and sympathetic approach, Denisova tackles problems of ... more
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Transformative Role-playing Game Design

Sarah Lynne Bowman, Simon Brind, Elektra Diakolambrianou (eds.)
Uppsala: Uppsala University Publications (2025), 315 pp.
"This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative ... more
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Destruktive Diskurse: Digitale Verbreitung von klimabezogener Mis- und Desinformation

Hanna Börgmann, Dominik Hammer, Jan Beyer, Jonas Ziock, Fiete Stegers, Philipp Keßling, Felix Münch
Berlin; Hamburg: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); Hans-Bredow-Institut (2025), 52 pp.
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The psychology of collective climate action: Building climate courage

Karen Hamann, Eva Junge, Paula Blumenschein, Sophia Dasch, Alex Wernke, Julian Bleh
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2025), xxv, 218 pp.
"How do we find the courage to act together against the climate crisis? This book weaves together real-life findings and examples from the social-ecological movement with psychological research to show how motivation for collective climate action can be built. The book addresses two key questions: h ... more
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Milestones in Communication and National Development

Vibert C. Cambridge
In: Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Yahya R. Kamalipour (ed.)
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2025), pp. 397-412
"Since World War II, several terms have been used to describe the deliberate, systematic, and creative use of communication assets - technologies, processes and imagination - to respond to dehumanizing conditions and to promote positive human development. They include project support communication, ... more
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Showrunning for Social Impact Entertainment: The Collaborative System of Rosy Ocampo & El Instituto
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Heriberto López Romo, Alejandro Garnica Andrade
Coyoacán, Mexico, DF: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales; Population Media Center (2025), 580 pp.
"In our years of working with producers, we at El Instituto have seen a consistent industry demand for insights into what makes content resonate with audiences. This book, Showrunning for Social Impact Entertainment: The Collaborative System of Rosy Ocampo & El Instituto, explores the career and pro ... more
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Climate Politics in Populist Times: Climate Change Communication Strategies in Germany, Spain, and Austria

Mirjam Gruber
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xvii, 223 pp.
"This book navigates the neglected territory where far-right populism intersects with climate change, presenting a nuanced examination that transcends traditional research boundaries. In recent decades, Europe has grappled with the surge of far-right and populist movements, fueling robust academic d ... more
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Support for Ukrainian Refugees Through Media: Summary of Project Achievements

Paris: UNESCO (2025), 10 pp.
"Through this project, UNESCO strengthened fact-based information exchange between refugees and host citizens as media audience. In doing so, it fostered social cohesion. The project assisted the media in their portrayal of the diversity of viewpoints, and governments in their response to the refuge ... more
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Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation: From Current Barriers to Opportunities

Ilaria Mariani, Marzia Mortati, Francesca Rizzo, Alessandro Deserti
Cham: Springer (2025), x, 121 pp.
"This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to strengthen public engagement through e-participation, streamline and enhance ... more
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Deconstructing the role of ICTs in agricultural development using the diverse economies framework

Maria Touri
Information Technology for Development, volume 30, issue 4 (2024), pp. 696-716
"ICT4D research is predominantly governed by discourses of instrumental usage of ICTs and measurable ends dictated by official policies. Particularly in agricultural production, farmers are cast as tool-users expected to use ICTs to achieve pre-determined goals. The article argues that such approach ... more
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Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid

Margie Cheesman
Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.
"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa ... more
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Alerta amazónica: Periodismo Ambiental para el Cuidado del Gran Bioma

Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte (2024), 48 pp.
"Tenemos en nuestras manos una guía pedagógica que escrita de una forma sencilla y asequible nos ofrece 5 trabajos periodísticos de colegas-companeros miembros de la red CUMARE: Voces de los pueblos de la Orinoquía y Amazonía, quienes desde sus propios territorios nos ofrecen su ejercicio peri ... more
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Transforming rural Africa: Trends and experiences in rural communication services

Rome: FAO (2024), vii, 54 pp.
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Laptops in the Long-Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru

Santiago Cueto, Diether W. Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Ofer Malamud, Francisco Pardo
Inter-American Development Bank (2024), 38 pp.
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Educomunicación para la preservación de la Amazonía: Estudio de caso Grupo Comunicarte, Colombia

Sara López-Gómez
Revista Española de Desarrollo y Cooperación, volume 51, issue 2 (2024), pp. 263-276
"La región amazónica enfrenta múltiples desafíos ambientales, socioeconómicos y humanitarios debido a la deforestación, minería ilegal y conflicto armado, afectando especialmente a comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes. Este estudio de caso utiliza análisi ... more
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Voces con propósito: Manual de estrategias de comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. Módulo del participante
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Jair Vega Casanova, Rafael Obregón Gálvez, Claudia Nieto Sánchez, Elizabeth Vargas Rosero, Camilo Pérez Qunitero, George W. Gathigi
Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), xiv, 76 pp.
"Este módulo presenta un proceso paso a paso que permitirá a los miembros de las organizaciones, o campañas, interesados en mejorar su visibilidad e impacto, formular estrategias de comunicación efectivas para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Aunque se han desarrollado múltiples modelos de ... more
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China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change

Song Shi
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna ... more
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Charity representations of distant others: An analysis of charity advertising supporting international causes in UK national newspapers

David Girling, Deborah Adesina
University of East Anglia, School of Global Development (2024), 32 pp.
"We are pleased that this project has provided evidence indicating an improvement in the representation of distant others in INGO adverts. On the whole, there is a marked difference in the organisation of cast and characters present in charity’s communications imagery and pitiful images are nearly ... more
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Pacific. Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?

Paris: UNESCO (2024), xxiii, 99 pp.