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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 Alternative Truth Kept Hidden From Us: The Effects of Multimodal Disinformation Disseminated by Ordinary Citizens and Alternative Hyper-Partisan Media. Evidence From the US and India

Michael Hameleers, Darian Harff, Désirée Schmuck
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 8 (2025), pp. 1351-1372
"The affordances of social media potentially amplify the effects of disinformation by offering the possibility to present deceptive content and sources in credible and native ways. We investigate the effects of two aspects related to the dissemination and modality of digital disinformation: (In)auth ... more
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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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Technology-Enabled Learning in the Commonwealth Countries: A Research Synthesis

Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Burnaby, British Columbia (CA): Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2025), iv, 50 pp.
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Communication, changement social et développement humain: Approche conceptuelle et pratique

Serge Théophile Balima
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 232 pp.
"Le concept même de communication pour le développement est apparu tardivement dans les sphères académiques, notamment dans l’espace francophone africain. L’université de Ouagadougou a été la première à dispenser cette spécialité dès 1996, non sans peine devant le conservatisme de ce ... 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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Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
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London: Care International (2025), 26 pp.
"Humanitarian crises are challenges affecting millions of people. They are diverse and global – be they natural disasters, famine crises, conflicts or wars. However, the attention of the global public is usually focused on a few, particularly prominent crises. With this Crisis Report, which is bei ... 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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Charity representations of distant others: An analysis of UK charity visual communications in direct mail campaigns

David Girling, Deborah Adesina
University of East Anglia, School of Global Development (2025), 29 pp.
"In this phase of our research on charity advertising, we aimed to examine how INGOs represent distant others in direct mail communications compared to newspaper advertisements, building on findings from earlier studies. While the direct mail format offers greater potential for nuanced storytelling, ... 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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Experientially simulated others: Finding social support for mental health in digital games

Jeff Nicklas
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 7 (2025), pp. 1270-1286
"People with mental illness struggle to find connection and community due to a combination of stigma, social isolation, and adverse social experiences. Digital games, as an immersive and interactive media, can convey aspects of mental health experiences in thoughtful ways. I considered how players c ... more
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Digitale Didaktik: Methoden und Modelle für eine erfolgreiche Praxis

Charlotte Reich, Kersten Reich
Weinheim: Beltz (2025), 272 pp.
"Digitale Didaktik begründet, worauf im digitalen Lernen und Blended Learning zu achten ist. In diesem Buch geben Charlotte und Kersten Reich einen Überblick über zehn zentrale Aspekte, die das moderne Lernen in Präsenz und Online heute ausmachen, unter anderem Selbstlernen und Selbstwirksamkeit ... more
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Communication and social change in Africa: Selected case studies

Manfred A. K. Asuman, Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Modestus Fosu (eds.)
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2025), 235 pp.
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Iglesia con rostro amazónico: Compendio de documentos de los caminos sinodales de la Iglesia en la Amazonía

Julio Caldeira (comp.)
Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELAM) (2025), 295 pp.
"[...] este compendio, organizado por el Padre Julio Caldeira, misionero de la Consolata, es una herramienta valiosa para profundizar en la memoria viva de la Iglesia en la Amazonía. A través de los documentos aquí reunidos, se ofrece un itinerario histórico y pastoral que abarca desde los años ... more
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Small world: International factual programming on public service channels (2023-24)

Martin Scott
London: International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) (2025), 19 pp.
"This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) in covering global events through current affairs and other factual programmes on television channels. To achieve this, we analysed the volume, originality, scheduling, genre, and geographic focus of inte ... more
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SpinozAI: Augmenting Journalism with Innovation and Ethics

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2025), 15 pp.
"The Spinoza project aims to develop an open-source AI tool that ensures the integrity, traceability, and ownership of its data. It is co-designed with journalists and publishers and its first prototype focuses on climate change issues. The initial concept was launched by Reporters Without Borders ( ... more
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The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2024
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Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2025), 31 pp.
"To reflect the neglect faced by both displaced people and their host countries, NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) revised the report’s methodology this year to include refugee-hosting nations experiencing severe crises of their own. As a result, Iran, home to more than six million refugees, and Uga ... more
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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco

Alice Malpass, Elspeth Penny, Andrew Russell
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126
"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an ... 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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Communicating a World-in-Crisis

Simon Cottle (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2025), xiv, 391 pp.
"We live in a world increasingly defined by systemic, deepening and compounding crises. They threaten not only future human existence but also the planetary web-of-life. With the help of academics, creative practitioners and activists, this book explores some of the innovative ways in which differen ... more