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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa

Oluyinka Osunkunle

Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124

"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t ... more

Effects of Radio-Based Extension Services on farmers’ Adoption of Organo-Mineral Fertilizers, Biofertilizers, and Manure in Lesotho

Nthapeliseng Nthama, O. I. Oladele

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 17 pp.

"This study examined the effects of radio-based extension services on farmers’ adoption of organo-mineral fertilizer, biofertilizer, and manure in Lesotho using a sample of 1659 farmers extracted from the 2019/2020 agricultural production survey database Bureau of Statistics (BOS). Data were analy ... more

Building a Better Participatory Culture and Enhancing Sense of Community in Podcasts: Systematic Literature Review

Juska Wendland

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 23 pp.

"This article studies the mechanisms for building a better participatory culture around podcasts and narrows the information gap among the podcast studies from the perspective of a sense of community. The research question is “What kind of participatory culture enhances a sense of community among ... more

Low-connectivity Educational Technology: A Case Study of Supporting Learning during Covid-19 via SMS with ‘Keep Kenya Learning’

Katy Jordan, Albina Mumbi, Phoebe Khagame, Lydia Njuguna

Journal of Learning for Development, volume 11, issue 3 (2024), pp. 553-562

"The use of Short Messaging Service (SMS) for education has grown in recent years, drawing particular attention to supporting school-level learners, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This renewed interest has prompted questions about how this form of educational technology could be used in the longer te ... more

Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review

Winfred Ekezie, Beauty Igein, Jomon Varughese, Ayesha Butt, Blessing Onyinye Ukoha-Kalu, Ifunanya Ikhile, Genevieve Bosah

Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.

"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec ... more

Information Sources, Credibility, Knowledge, and Risk Perceptions: Findings from the National Tuberculosis Survey in South Korea

Jarim Kim, Sunouk You, Yesolran Kim

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 888-908

"This study explores the sources of tuberculosis (TB) information used by Koreans, focusing specifically on how sociodemographic variables influence perceptions of source credibility and how the use of different information sources influences TB-related knowledge levels and risk perceptions. Based o ... more

“Drop a Bomb on Them . . . and Problem Solved!”: An Analysis of Poverty Discourse on TikTok

Ana Mayagoitia-Soria, Juan Manuel González-Aguilar, Salvador Gómez-García, María Antonia Paz-Rebollo

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1135-1156

"This research analyzes the discursive characteristics of hate messages posted on TikTok Spain against people at risk of social exclusion. Using critical discourse analysis, we analyzed 679 hateful messages generated by 100 videos found about poverty. This method considered the social groups mention ... more

Long Live Chairman Mao: Propaganda About Mao Zedong in Chinese Primary School Textbooks (1984–1999)

Shenglan Zhou

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3647-3667

"This article examines the portrayal of Mao Zedong in Chinese literacy textbooks published within the context of the Patriotic Education Campaign during the 1980s and 1990s. Employing critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that Mao is depicted as an authoritative, charismatic, and industrio ... more

Change Inside and Out: An Evaluator’s Guide to Outcome Harvesting + Attitude Change

Michelle Garred, Min Ma

Ripple Peace Research & Consulting, revised ed. (2024), 63 pp.

"This Guide updates the learning on Outcome Harvesting + Attitude Change (OH+AC), an adapted version of Outcome Harvesting that adds the consideration of attitudes while upholding Outcome Harvesting’s primary concepts and core principles. Whereas Outcome Harvesting centers behavior change among so ... more

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Producing and Managing an SBC Mass Media Campaign
Key Guidance

Justin DeNormandie, Mwikali Kioko

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2024)

"This toolkit is a step-by-step guide to develop, produce, broadcast, and monitor a social and behavior change (SBC) mass media campaign. The outputs from this creative development process can and should be used to guide the design of additional communication channels in an integrated, mixed-media c ... more

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Case Study: Talk to Loop

GSMA (2024), 6 pp.

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Environmental Communication

Anabela Carvalho, Tarla Rai Peterson (eds.)

Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton (2024), xx, 600 pp.

"This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. The first ... more

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Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations

Vikas Kumar, Mohit Rewari (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xviii, 191 pp.

"This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national de ... more

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Integrating supply and demand in social marketing programs: The Nosh-e-Jaan campaign to promote nutrition in Afghanistan

Nedra Kline Weinreich, Mustafa Basij Rasikh

Health Marketing Quarterly, volume 42, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-47

"This case study describes a successful nutrition social marketing program in Afghanistan. By building up the domestic soy industry and supply chain, while creating consumer demand for high-protein soy products to combat malnutrition, the Nosh-e-Jaan campaign rebalanced the market dynamics for this ... more

Wandel der Einstellungen und Kommunikation zu Klimawandel und Klimapolitik von 2015 bis 2023: Rückschlag für den Klimaschutz

Anne Reif, Lars Guenther, Robin Tschötschel, Michael Brüggemann

Media Perspektiven, issue 15 (2024), 12 pp.

"Eine breite Mehrheit unterstützt Klimaschutz, aber erstmals sinkt die Unterstützung für klimapolitische Maßnahmen, während die Anzahl der Menschen steigt, die die Existenz des anthropogenen Klimawandels bezweifeln. Das Vertrauen in die Klimawissenschaft ist nach wie vor hoch, ging 2023 aber se ... more