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Catalyst or Destabiliser? COVID-19 and its Impact on the Media Landscape Worldwide

Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 159 pp.
"In terms of quality of media coverage, there are various outcomes: In Asia, for example, small and independent outlets, able to provide reliable information, gained momentum, whereas citizens in the MENA-region turned to social media in search of trustworthy facts on the coronavirus. In South-Easte ... 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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Diskurse und Praktiken der Schulbuchproduktion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und England am Beispiel von Afrikawissen

Lars Müller
Göttingen: V & R Unipress (2021), 560 pp.
"Was ist aus Schulbüchern über Afrika zu lernen und woher kommen diese Wissensbestände? Schulbuchproduktion wird in diesem Band als Knotenpunkt gesellschaftlicher Diskurse und Praktiken verstanden und Schulbuchwissen im Kontext seiner Produktionsbedingungen sowie der gesellschaftlichen Debatten a ... more
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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

Ana Cristina Suzina (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy ... more
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Eure Message: Großes Kino

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021), 43 pp.
"Das vorliegende Workshopkonzept wurde im Netzwerk Verstärker - aktivierende Bildungsarbeit entwickelt und im Rahmen der "Aktionsformate" des Netzwerks erprobt. Die Konzepte wurden auf Basis von wissenschaftlichen Studien und von Praxiserfahrungen zahlreicher Pädagog*innen, politischer Bildner*inn ... more
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A Freelancers’ Guide for Reporting on Vaccines

Freelance Journalism Assembly; European Journalism Centre (2021), 4 pp.
"How we report on vaccines and vaccination programmes can affect public perceptions of vaccines and vaccine acceptance. In this field, our choice of words, narrative decisions, presentation of data and selection of sources are all crucial - not just journalistically, but from a public health perspec ... more
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Report of the Massive Open Online Course on Blended Learning Practice (BLP MOOC 5) Fifth Offering: 7 February – 6 March 2021

Martha Cleveland-Innes, Nathaniel Ostashewski, Daniel Wilton, Carmen Jensen-Tebb
Athabasca University (2021), 32 pp.
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Starting Conversations to Tackle Sanitation in India Through TV Drama: Evaluation of Navrangi Re!

Tom Newton-Lewis, Rishika Das Roy, Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Anna Godfrey, Rituparna Sanyal, Ishleen Sethi, Radharani Mitra, Ragini Pasricha, Purnima Mehrotra, Sandhya Iyer, Pavan Mamidi
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 45-58
"There is a growing body of evidence from rigorous evaluations demonstrating the effectiveness of education entertainment – ‘edutainment’– interventions in achieving development outcomes. Building on this research, this study presents the results of a pioneering quasi-experimental evaluation ... more
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Nachhaltigkeit erzählen: Durch Storytelling besser kommunizieren?

Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann (eds.)
München: Oekom Verlag (2021), 178 pp.
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Building and Strengthening Digital Ecosystems in Humanitarian Contexts

Belinda Baah, Zoe Hamilton
London: GSMA (2021), 24 pp.
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Beyond Disruption: Technology Enabled Learning Futures. 2020 Edition of Mobile Learning Week

Fengchun Miao, Wayne Holmes
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 52 pp.
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Communication Infrastructure and Community Mobilization: The Case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 Response Network for the Marginalized in India

Hua Wang, Aaditeshwar Seth, Mira Johri, Esha Kalra, Arvind Singhal
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
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Assessing Suicide Reporting in Top Newspaper Social Media Accounts in China: Content Analysis Study

Kaisheng Lai, Dan Li, Huijuan Peng, Jingyuan Zhao, Lingnan He
JMIR Mental Health, volume 8, issue 5 (2021), 13 pp.
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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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Handbook for Interactive Audio Instruction: Planning and Implementing Radio Lessons in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Paris: UNESCO (2021), 88 pp.
"This document is organized into eight chapters that review the history and uses of interactive audio instruction (IAI) as an educational resource, including its methodology, achieved results, and potential to support provision in emergency or crisis situations. Intended as a practical tool for poli ... more
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Del mutante a la persona: Claves para comunicar sobre discapacidad desde un enfoque de derechos

José Beltrán
Santo Domingo: Fundación Francina (2021), 43 pp.
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African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Cajetan Nwabueze Iheka
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2021), xiii, 322 pp.
"In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioec ... more
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Information Saves Lives: Tackling Rumors, Myths and Misinformation in the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews; USAID (2021), 24 pp.
"In the Eastern DRC where the 10th Ebola epidemic was coming to an end, the advent of COVID-19 raised additional concern of dealing with two major health emergencies at the same time with implications for effective audience engagement, and compliance to public health measures. These concerns came ag ... more
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Manual para periodistas: Nuevas maneras de informar y comunicar la COVD-19

Calandria (2021), 125 pp.
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Entertainment-Education Campaigns and COVID-19: How Three Global Organizations Adapted the Health Communication Strategy for Pandemic Response and Takeaways for the Future

Amy Henderson Riley, Angeline Sangalang, Elizabeth Critchlow, Neemesha Brown, Radharani Mitra, Brenda Campos Nesme
Health Communication, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 42-49
"COVID-19 created a substantial set of challenges for health communication practitioners in the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating entertainment-education (EE) campaigns. EE is a theory and evidence-based communication strategy that employs entertainment media for educational messagin ... more