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Comunicación en tiempos del COVID-19

Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS);Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) (2020), 15 pp.

"En el caso de la población rural, prácticamente 70 % percibe que no tiene suficiente información, en el caso de la población urbana este porcentaje es menor a 50 %. Confrontando esta información con los medios y la disponibilidad, la explicación más razonable es que no se trata necesariament ... more

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Ghana’s E-Learning Program During Pandemic Presents Access Challenges for Many Students

Mavis Zupork Dome, Daniel Armah-Attoh

Afrobarometer (2020), 9 pp.

"Afrobarometer findings show that radio and television are the most widely accessible platforms for students seeking to participate in MoE/GES e-learning programs, although rural and poor households are at a disadvantage when it comes to owning these devices. The data show relatively low rates of ac ... more

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Africa’s Digital Divide and the Promise of E-Learning
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Matthias Krönke

Afrobarometer (2020), 18 pp.

"On average across 34 countries, one in five adults (20%) have access to both a smartphone and a computer, while 43% only have access to a basic cell phone. In 15 out of 34 countries, at least half of adults have access to a smartphone or a computer or both. About three in 10 respondents (31%) use t ... more

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Communicating for Change: Concepts to Think With
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Jo Tacchi, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 186 pp.

"This collection presents 14 concepts from a multi-disciplinary collection of internationally leading and emerging scholars, from 13 countries on 5 continents. They come together around three meta-topics: citizenship and justice, critiques of development, and renewing thought (from and for the margi ... more

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Usos docentes de dispositivos móviles en América Latina

Lina María Cano Vásquez, Juan Zambrano Acosta

Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 160 pp.

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.

"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so ... more

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Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia

Anastasia Nani, Lolita Buka, Gina Lentine

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.

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Makeovers Made Over: Ubuntu and Decolonization in Reality TV

Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian

Television & New Media, volume 21, issue 5 (2020), pp. 439-456

"Narratives about Africa are often shaped by deficit discourses that frame “development” as an instrument for advancing the interests of global capitalism. From within this neoliberal view, Africa has to “catch up” to and “be taught” how to emulate and achieve the standards promulgated i ... more

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Paper and Digital: Current Research Into the Effectiveness of Learning Materials

International Publishers Association (IPA);Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 87 pp.

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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints

Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.

"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children. ... more

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UNESCO COVID-19 Education Response: Virtual Knowledge-Sharing Workshop on Distance Education Programmes Using Radio and Television, 27 May 2020. Summary Report

UNESCO;European Broadcasting Union (EBU) (2020), 11 pp.

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Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2020), xvi, 427 pp.

"Each chapter starts with a brief recap of the key lessons that are covered in storytelling with data. This is followed by: 'practice with Cole': exercises based on real-world examples posed for you to consider and solve, accompanied by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation; 'practice o ... more

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Un futur durable: Étude de capitalisation sur les activités de pérennisation de la Fondation Hirondelle

Michel Leroy

Dortmund: Institut Erich-Brost, TU Dortmund (2020), 17 pp.

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Reading Matters: Surveys and Campaigns. How to Keep and Recover Readers

Åsfrid Hegdal

International Publishers Association (IPA);Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 89 pp.

"The aim of the report has been to identify data about reading habits of the population in a selection of countries, then to summarise them. Our hope is that this report will form an empirical base and a starting point for further research and discussions regarding this important topic for the inter ... more

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The ‘changing’ Face of Media Discourses on Poverty in the Age of Populism and Anti-Globalisation: The Political Appeal of Anti-Modernity and Certainty in Brazil

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-116

"This article analyses how the political right in parts of the Global South has appropriate agendas and issues that in the past were often associated to the political left and presented them instead as their own. It does so by articulating narratives around poverty and social exclusion in the contex ... more

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Principles of Risk Communication: A Guide to Communicating with Socially Vulnerable Populations Across the Disaster Lifecycle

Nnenia Campbell, Kamryn Roper-Fetter, Mary Yoder

Boulder, Col.: University of Colorado Boulder, Natural Hazards Center (2020), 29 pp.

"This document is intended to be used as a high-level guide for advancing risk communication best practices. It synthesizes academic research and available guidance on the topic of hazards and disaster risk communication. It draws from an array of evidence-based recommendations for effectively commu ... more

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COVID-19 Education Response Webinar: Distance Education Programmes Using Radio and Television in Latin America, Summary Report, 18 June 2020

UNESCO;European Broadcasting Union (EBU) (2020), 7 pp.

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In Full View: Creatively Tackling Sanitation in India

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 14 pp.

"Navrangi Re! (Nine To A Shade), a 26–episode television drama series was created to take the discussion on e Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) to mainstream audiences, beyond the domain of infrastructure and technology. It was the result of a unique partnership between a donor (the Bill & Melinda Ga ... tes Foundation), a commercial media network (Viacom18), an academic institution (Centre for Social & Behavior Change, Ashoka University), an evaluation partner (Oxford Policy Management), and a global media brand with proven social and behaviour change communication expertise (BBC Media Action). Navrangi Re! is the story of an urban neighbourhood – a mohalla – where lots of different people live cheek by jowl, and through the trials and tribulations of life in an urban jungle, find ways to overcome this constant crisis mode that has become normalised. The mohalla is a creative device to accommodate an entire socio–economic microcosm, with different families occupying different points on the sanitation value chain [...] The evaluation results of Navrangi Re! demonstrate the power of narratives in making the invisible, visible – in bringing attention to critical, silent and complex social problems. They also validate the science, art and craft used in BBC Media Action’s narrative ‘engagement’ model – a) rooting the storytelling in research and theory, b) a commitment to an immersive creative approach and c) an unwavering focus on ‘entertainment first’. The results also show that it is possible for narratives to walk the tightrope between outcomes and audience ratings to achieve change. There is strong evidence that an insight–based Theory of Change combined with all the ingredients that make compelling drama helped Navrangi Re! deliver on the twin challenges of achieving Television Rating Points (TRPs) week after week and demonstrating impact. The results shine the light on the need for innovative partnerships. Crafting partnerships that bring together donors, private sector platforms, academia, research and storytellers is the need of the hour. In a post–Covid world, different stakeholders need to convene more of these partnerships to leverage the power of narrative for stronger societies." (Pages 2-14) more

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Responding to the COVID-19 Info-Demic: Lessons from Quick, Collective, and Localised Action. A Policy Brief by the H2H Network on What Worked and What We Need to Do Next

BBC Media Action;evidence aid;Internews;Translators Without Borders (2020), 4 pp.

"Internews, Translators without Borders, and BBC Media Action collaborated to track and analyse rumours and misinformation circulating on social media in a range of languages. At the same time, Evidence Aid produced plain-language summaries of existing high-quality research to inform the decisions o ... more

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Information and Communication Technologies for Humanitarian Services

Muhammad Nazrul Islam (ed.)

London: Institution of Engineering and Technology (2020), xx, 371 pp.

"This book provides new developments, innovations, and research outcomes; case studies and lessons learned; and other considerations for the creation and deployment of effective ICTs to provide humanitarian services for the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world in order to imp ... more

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