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Situational Analysis of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability in Burkina Faso

Rachel Maher

CDAC Network (2020), 17 pp.

"Burkina Faso is dramatically confronted with the consequences of violence, persistent food insecurity and malnutrition. Five of the thirteen regions of the country are particularly affected, and the humanitarian situation has been steadily deteriorating since 2017 with a peak observed in the second ... more

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Common Services for Communication and Community Engagement: National and Sub-National Platforms. A Status Update

CDAC Network (2020), 29 pp.

"It has been widely agreed that national platforms for Communication and Community Engagement (CCE) are essential for making progress toward greater participation and accountability in humanitarian response. A policy paper describing this in detail was produced by the CDAC Network in 2016, supported ... more

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Journalism, Press Freedom and COVID-19. Issue Brief in the UNESCO Series: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 17 pp.

"Key trends: Fueling the pandemic, a dangerous “disinfodemic” has arisen; Against soaring demand for verified information, independent media have risen to the challenge; Technology companies are taking action, but more transparency is needed; Some regulatory measures have led to new restrictions ... more

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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.

"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate ... more

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Role of Media in Delivering the SDGs: A Mapping Exercise on Bangladesh

Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Mostafa Amir Sabbih

Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (2020), 37 pp.

"The present paper identifies five key roles of media in contributing to the SDGs delivery. These include: channeling information flow, ensuring proper monitoring and accountability, acting as an enabler of a ‘culture of peace’, upholding marginalised voices and facilitating the localisation of ... more

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Improving the Response to COVID-19: Lessons from the Humanitarian Sector Around Communication, Community Engagement and Participation

Philip Tamminga

CDAC Network (2020), 22 pp.

"Lesson one: Put people and principles at the centre of COVID-19 decision-making, not politics. Lesson two: Reframe discussions about responsibility in a pandemic so that those who are considered vulnerable are a priority rather than an afterthought. Lesson three: Prepare ways to share sophisticated ... 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

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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
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Luba Kassova

Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.

"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an ... d 1.9 million stories between 1st March and 15th April 2020 undertaken by Media Ecosystems Analysis Group; an in-depth qualitative portrayal analysis of 175 highly ranked COVID-19/coronavirus stories across the six countries; quantitative analysis of eight public-facing bespoke Google surveys, as well as multi-country secondary surveys; a pronoun content analysis of COVID-19 headlines; story frames analyses using Google’s news search engine, the Internet TV News Archive in 2020 and the GDELT Project global online news archive for 2017 to 2020; and interrogation of a number of global statistical databases [...] The report has examined the news coverage of the COVID-19/coronavirus story through the lenses of three indicators of gender equality: women as sources of news expertise; news stories leading with women protagonists; and coverage of gender equality issues. The insights from the report have led to the creation of 21 recommendations which aim to support news providers who wish to amplify the substantially muted voices of women in news coverage of the COVID19/coronavirus story. The report has uncovered a substantial bias towards men’s perspectives in the newsgathering and news coverage of this pandemic across both the global north (the UK and US) and the global south (India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa). This bias operates against a backdrop of women’s effective political invisibility within the COVID-19-related decision-making process in the countries analyzed and the unique socioeconomic, health and psychological challenges that women face globally. Every individual woman’s voice in the news on COVID19 is drowned out by the voices of at least three, four, or five men. The women who are given a platform in the COVID-19/coronavirus story are rarely portrayed as authoritative experts or as empowered individuals but more frequently as sources of personal opinion or as victims/people affected by the disease." (Executive summary) more

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Saving Lives and Changing Minds with Twitter in Disasters and Pandemics: A Literature Review

Hamed Seddighi, Ibrahim Salmani, Saeideh Seddighi

Journalism and Media, volume 1, issue 1 (2020), pp. 59-77

"Twitter is a major tool for communication during emergencies and disasters. This study aimed to investigate Twitter use during natural hazards and pandemics. The included studies reported the role of Twitter in disasters triggered by natural hazards. Electronic databases were used for a comprehensi ... more

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Education for the Most Marginalised Post-COVID-19: Guidance for Governments on the Use of Digital Technologies in Education. Act One (of Three): Executive Summary

EdTechHub;UNESCO (2020), 13 pp.

"There is no one-size-fits-all way in which governments should promote and implement initiatives that use digital technologies to improve the learning outcomes of the most marginalised, and governments always need to take into consideration their local contexts and priorities. However, in very gener ... more

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Redes sociales y plataformas de fact-checking contra la desinformación sobre la COVID-19

Xavier Ramon-Vegas, Marcel Mauri-Ríos, Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez

Hipertext.net, issue 21 (2020), pp. 79-92

"La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha generado una crisis sanitaria y comunicativa sin precedentes. A través de las plataformas digitales, se ha producido una ingente circulación de información falsa, inexacta o descontextualizada so-bre el coronavirus. Entre ella, cabe destacar los rumores, bulos y teo ... more

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Medios escolares, posibilidades y retos para empoderar sujetos políticos y productores de sentido en la escuela

Juan Carlos Ceballos Sepúlveda, Julián Darío Forero Sandoval, Alfredo Álvarez Orozco, Luis Manuel Rojas Ramírez

Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 214 pp.

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Handreichung: Krisenberatung am Telefon und per Video in Zeiten von Corona

Joachim Wenzel, Stephanie Jaschke, Emily Engelhardt

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie, Beratung und Familientherapie (DGSF), Fachgruppe Onlineberatung und Medien, Version 1.3 (2020), 21 pp.

"Beratende und andere Fachkräfte erleben während der Coronapandemie eine nie dagewesene Herausforderung, da ihre eigene Lebenssituation und zugleich die Lebenswelt ihrer Klient*innen sich grundlegend geändert hat. In besonderen Krisenzeiten wie bei einem Lockdown, Kontaktbeschränkungen oder Isol ... more

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Periodismo en tiempos de #COVID19: Guía latinoamericana de cobertura

Voces del Sur (2020), 10 pp.

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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

Tripta Chandola

Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.

"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of ... more

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Key Considerations: Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19

Nadia Butler

Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 8 pp.

"This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details various types of online media, key players and influencers on social media, a ... more

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COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment: Behaviour, Ethics, Misinformation and Policy Strategies

London: Royal Society;British Academy (2020), 35 pp.

"COVID-19 vaccine deployment faces an unprecedented degree of uncertainty and complexity, which is difficult to communicate, such as immune response, duration of immunity, repeated vaccination, transmission dynamics, microbiological and clinical characteristics and multiple vaccines. Priority groups ... more

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People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia

William Paul Forster

Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 4 pp.

"This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected communities and p ... more

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Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

Tabitha Hrynick, Santiago Ripoll, Megan Schmidt-Sane

Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 18 pp.

"This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is more complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties – not just, or even primarily, exposure to misinformation or anti-vaccine campaigners. Based ... more

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Public Trust in the Media During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Media Matters for Democracy (2020), 34 pp.

"The public generally approved of the Pakistani news media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. A majority of the respondents agreed that the Covid news coverage had provided them the information they needed, provided largely accurate information, worked for the benefit of the public, and helped th ... more

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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
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