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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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Misinformed: Sudan’s Centralisation Problem & the Pandemic

Internews; USAID (2021), 81 pp.
"This Information Ecosystem Assessment documents how information around the COVID-19 pandemic is produced, consumed, and shared in Sudan contributing to the existence of multiple and overlapping information sub-systems within the supply side of the broader ecosystem. The findings show how the centra ... more
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Social Media Effectiveness as a Humanitarian Response to Mitigate Influenza Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic

Kumar, Sameer, Chong Xu, Nidhi Ghildayal, Charu Chandra, Muer Yang
Annals of Operations Research, volume 319 (2021), pp. 823–851
"Influenza and COVID-19 are infectious diseases with significant burdens. Information and awareness on preventative techniques can be spread through the use of social media, which has become an increasingly utilized tool in recent years. This study developed a dynamic transmission model to investiga ... more
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Does the Platform Matter? Social Media and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs in 17 Countries

Yanis Theocharis, Ana Cardenal, Soyeon Jin, Toril Aalberg, David Nicolas Hopmann et al.
New Media & Society, volume 25, issue 12 (2021), pp. 3412-3437
"While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types of platforms. This study places the role of social media affordances in facilitating the spread of conspiracy belief ... more
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COVID-19 Risk Communications Promising Practices Playbook
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Manila; New York: Asian Development Bank (ADB); McCann Global Health (2021), v, 89 pp.
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Supplementing Emergency Warning Messsages to Encourage Readiness to Act: The Effect of Colour and Icons

Dominique A. Greer, Paula Dootson, Sophie A. Miller, Vivienne Tippett
Melbourne: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC; Queensland University of Technology (2021), 52 pp.
"An online survey was conducted in which participants were exposed to one of 16 mock emergency warnings about either a bushfire or a riverine flood and were then asked a series of questions relating to their demographic characteristics, message comprehension and effectiveness, threat appraisal, copi ... more
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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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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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The Barbados Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA): How the Flow of Information Impacts Disaster Preparedness and Response

Internews (2021), 95 pp.
"Barbadians are not sufficiently prepared for natural disasters. In addition to being heavily reliant on electricity and the internet for communicating during times of crises and disasters, Barbados is in need of a mandatory building code, more resilient housing and building infrastructures, and gre ... more
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Virtual Trainings Gate: A Toolkit for Safe and Effective Virtual Trainings

Safa Harak, Mahmoud Abdelzaher, Ayah Othman (eds.)
Justice Call (2021), 37 pp.
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Investigating the Prevention and Mitigatory Role of Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bloemfontein, South Africa

Olivia Kunguma, Mosekama Osia Mokhele, Mercia Coetzee
Jàmbá - Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, volume 13, issue 1: a1130 (2021), 11 pp.
"The South African disaster response activities surpass risk reduction since the implementation of the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002 (DMA) and the National Disaster Management Framework of 2005 (NDMF). Risk reduction, in particular risk communication, remained unexploited until the occurrence o ... more
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Public Engagement on Climate Change: A Case Study Compendium

Chandrima Padmanabhan
Centre for Public Impact; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2021), 65 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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Paulo Freire, 100 anos

Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
"Apenas um dos livros de Freire (1969/1983) aborda diretamente e de modo mais amplo o âmbito da comunicação; trata-se de Extensão ou Comunicação?, publicado em 1969, originalmente em espanhol, durante o exílio do educador no Chile. Essa obra se tornou referencial importante para os estudos e ... more
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Report of the Massive Open Online Course: Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL MOOC), Ninth Offering: 7 March - 17 April 2021

Martha Cleveland-Innes, Nathaniel Ostashewski, Daniel Wilton, Carmen Jensen-Tebb
Athabasca University (2021), 33 pp.
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Maintaining land and life in Vanuatu: Indigenous alternatives of recovery following the Manaro eruption on Ambae, Vanuatu

Foley C. Pfalzgraf
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 2, issue Supplement (2021), pp. 5.1–5.13
"Between 2017 and 2019, the Manaro volcano on the island of Ambae in Vanuatu erupted consistently, leading to two compulsory evacuations of the island’s communities. The eruption was only one of many ecological emergencies unfolding in Vanuatu as climate change continues to affect the islands. Ami ... more
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Building Capacity in Communication for Development and Health Promotion

Rafael Obregón, Charlotte Lapsansky
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 262-284
"Strengthening capacities in communication for development (C4D) and health communication is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other global health and development goals. This chapter presents case studies of recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations Children´s Fu ... more
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Sustainable, Universal Access to the Internet: Environmental Implications and Policy Choices

Teddy Woodhouse
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 29 pp.
"This report analyses how governments are building climate and carbon factors into their broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests policy recommendations towards a greener internet. We compiled publicly available documents for the national broadband plans from the 100 l ... more
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Telecommunications/ICTs for rural and remote areas. Study period 2018-2021

Geneva: ITU (2021), xiii, 90 pp.
"There is need for further studies focusing on access to broadband services and how emerging technologies can be used to transform rural and remote areas into digital economies. There is no one-size-fits-all model for financing rural connectivity and engaging all stakeholders, but creating public-pr ... more
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Where Are the Women? Insights from Across Asia on the Barriers to Including Women as Sources and Journalists in Environmental Reporting

Sweta Daga, Okky Madasari, Zofeen Ebrahim, Edz dela Cruz et al.
Earth Journalism Network (EJN) (2021), 59 pp.