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From “communicating” to “engagement”: Afro-Relationality as a Conceptual Framework for Climate Change Communication in Africa

Dominic Ayegba Okoliko, Martinus Petrus de Wit
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 36-50
"This study interrogates the conventional understanding of and practice within mediated climate change communication (CCC) as a forum where transformative ideas on sustainability practices are shaped. Besides the dominance of non-African contexts and epistemologies in literature analyzing the media- ... more
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The Sputnik V vaccine: An international success for Russia? An analysis of the way Russian state-owned media RT and Sputnik/SNA present information and use methods of disinformation in the examples of Germany, France, Great Britain, Serbia, Slovakia and Kazakhstan

Susanne Spahn
Berlin: The Greens-EFA in the European Parliament (2021), 41 pp.
"This analysis examines the methods of disinformation being used to prove Russia's scientific lead, while portraying Western compet-itors in a very negative light. Sputnik V is an instrument of "soft power" through which Russia is trying to gain influence worldwide. In order to evaluate how successf ... more
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Data Responsibility Toolkit: A Guide for Cash and Voucher Practitioners

Linda Raftree, Anna Kondakhchyan
Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) (2021), 45 pp.
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Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit: Umgang mit politischer Information und Kommunikation in digitalen Räumen

Manuel S. Hubacher, Monika Waldis (eds.)
Springer VS (2021), x, 219 pp.
"In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen digitaler politischer Kommunikation auswirken, wie der Politikunterricht ... 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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Manual para periodistas: Nuevas maneras de informar y comunicar la COVD-19

Calandria (2021), 125 pp.
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Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya

Leah Jerop Komen
Bamenda: Langaa (2021), 208 pp.
"In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in ... more
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Transforming Gender Norms Through Communication: Minga Perú's Communicative Actions in the Amazon

Ami Sengupta, Arvind Singhal
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 302-321
"We illustrate the principles and processes of gender transformative communication by presenting a case study of a long-running social change initiative spearheaded by Minga Perú, a community-based organization in the Peruvian Amazon. Applying a gender and power lens, we illustrate how communicatio ... more
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Revisiting COVID-19 Communication in Western Africa: A Health Literacy-Based Approach to Health Communication

Bernard Seytre, Cristano Barros, Philip Bona, Babacar Fall, Blahima Konate et al.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, volume 105, issue 3 (2021), pp. 708-712
"Adherence to protectiv emeasures is a major component of COVID-19 epidemic control. COVID-19 health literacy is a major driver of this adherence, and the evaluation of health literacy levels is the basis for designing an effective communication strategy. We conducted a quantitative socio-anthropolo ... more
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Happiness and surprise are associated with worse truth discernment of COVID-19 headlines among social media users in Nigeria

Leah R. Rosenweig, Bence Bago, Adam J. Berinsky, David G. Rand
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 4 (2021), 37 pp.
"Do emotions we experience after reading headlines help us discern true from false information or cloud our judgement? Understanding whether emotions are associated with distinguishing truth from fiction and sharing information has implications for interventions designed to curb the spread of misinf ... more
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Traditional Folk Media in India: Jathara as a Mode of Communication for Development and Social Change

Srinivas Panthukala
White Falcon Publishing (2021), xxii, 153 pp.
"The contents of this book deals with an overview of traditional folk media, characteristic elements of the study, empirical data of Jathara, Importance of Jathara as a medium of communication for the development of society. The analyzed the role of Jathara as a local and traditional mode of communi ... more
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The Politics of Authenticity and Populist Discourses: Media and Education in Brazil, India and Ukraine

Christoph Kohl, Barbara Christophe, Heike Liebau, Achim Saupe (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), viii, 240 pp.
"Starting from the assumption that media play a crucial role for populist discourses of authenticity, the volume moves beyond conventional and social media by expanding its focus to media in formal education, notably school textbooks and curricula. These two particular media formats lastingly shape ... more
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Can Health Information Through Mobile Phones Close the Divide in Health Behaviours Among the Marginalised? An Equity Analysis of Kilkari in Madhya Pradesh, India

Diwakar Mohan, Kerry Scott, Neha Shah et al.
BMJ Global Health, issue 6: e005512 (2021), 10 pp.
"Kilkari is one of the largest maternal mobile messaging programmes in the world. It makes weekly prerecorded calls to new and expectant mothers and their families from the fourth month of pregnancy until 1-year post partum. The programme delivers reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in ... 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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Effects of an E-Reader Intervention on Literacy, Numeracy and Non-Verbal Reasoning Among Adolescent Girls in Zambia: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

Barbara S. Mensch, Nicole Haberland, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Jean Digitale, Natalie Jackson-Hachonda et al.
Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 247-275
"This paper presents results from a three-arm randomized controlled trial in Zambia with a sample of nearly 1200 adolescent girls enrolled in Grade 7. Selected primary schools (N=36) were randomly assigned within each of three districts to one of three arms: 1) e-readers, which girls could take home ... more
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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts

Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse ... more
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Persuasive strategies in online health misinformation: A systematic review

Wei Peng, Sue Lim, Jingbo Meng
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 11 (2021), pp. 2131-2148
"A proliferation of a variety of health misinformation is present online, particularly during times of public health crisis. To combat online health misinformation, numerous studies have been conducted to taxonomize health misinformation or examine debunking strategies for various types of health mi ... more
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Community Radio for Social Change: Restoring Decentralized Democratic Discursive Spaces

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik
In: Handbook of Communication and Development
Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the ... more
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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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Investigating Health & Medicine

Catherine Riva, Serena Tinari
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) (2020), 90 pp.
"This guide focuses on medicines and medical devices. It aims to provide journalists with the tools and knowledge to independently assess the evidence, critically appraise the risk-benefit ratio of any given product or policy, and expose corruption and malpractice. It can be read as a textbook, one ... more