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Formative Evaluation of the Sara Radio Programme (SRP) in Iringa DC, Iringa MC, Kilolo DC and Mufindi DC. Final Report

Dar es Salaam: UNICEF Tanzania; CSR Group Africa (2019), xv, 14, 119 pp.
"The SRP was piloted in Tanzania following the model of the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI). The main objective of SRP was to improve skills among school children, especially girls, on negotiation, communication skills and positive social behaviour. Activities to foster and support engagement of ... more
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Using Radio as a Means of Operational Communication and Community Outreach

Adrien Zerbini
Lausanne: Fondation Hirondelle (2019), 16 pp.
"From 21 to 23 November 2018, eight communication officers working in French-speaking Africa for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met in Dakar, Senegal, to talk about how they have used radio as a tool for humanitarian communication. They also learned how to evaluate their program ... more
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Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Geoffrey Craig
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xv, 236 pp.
"This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local communit ... more
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Foes and allies: The Catholic Church, Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO), and the emergence of the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia

Diego Mauricio Cortes
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2019), pp. 171-193
"Literature on Latin American social movements has discussed the contributions of post-Second Vatican Council (SVC) (1963–1965) progressive branches of the Catholic Church in the formation of indigenous movements. However, this literature has largely ignored discussions on the intervention of non- ... more
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We Need to Talk: Effective Ebola Risk Communication Requires Respect and Transparency and Remains as Vital as Ever. An Assessment of Changing Communication Needs and Preferences in Beni, North Kivu

C. Fricke
Translators Without Borders (2019), 43 pp.
"Interviews with health communicators and residents in September 2019 found that language barriers impede understanding of critical information on Ebola. Information in French and Swahili does not reach everyone. People misunderstand seemingly simple medical words in French. Swahili is best understo ... more
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Climate and Sustainability Communication: Global Perspectives

Donnalyn Pompper (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 149 pp.
"Climate and Sustainability Communication builds upon traditional approaches to understanding the role of mass media in shaping social issues by amplifying diverse perspectives of opinion leaders, as well as voices of those affected by climate and sustainability issues. From South Korea and China, t ... more
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"We Have Failed as a Continent:" Covering an African Atrocity for an African Audience

J. Siguru Wahutu
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"This ethnic conflict frame performs three functions when used by African journalists. The first is that it works to domesticate the conflict [in Darfur] by relying on already sedimented knowledge among African audiences about identity formation … The second function of this frame is based on know ... more
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Radio Sutatenza y Acción Cultural Popular: Los medios de comunicación para la educación del campesino colombiano

José Arturo Rojas Martínez
Bogotá: Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2019), 129 pp.
"La participación como una condición para el desarrollo es uno de los aprendizajes que deja este proyecto. Acción Cultural Popular reforzó la necesidad de trabajar colectivamente y de participar en lo relacionado con su entorno. Un nuevo esquema de relaciones para el futuro planteó ACPO con su ... more
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2018

Care International (2019), 19 pp.
"Some crises receive less media coverage than others. Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo rivals that of Syria but has received far less attention. In the Central African Republic widespread starvation has set in, which has gone largely unnoticed. And while the catastrophic 2010 earthqu ... more
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Communicating for Social Change: Meaning, Power, and Resistance

Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata (eds.)
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xx, 413 pp.
"The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change. Attending to the concepts of communication and social change that emerge from and across the global margins, the book works toward offering theoretica ... more
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Reporting Climate Change in the Global North and South: Journalism in Australia and Bangladesh

Jahnnabi Das
London; New York: Routledge (2019), 162 pp.
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Marketplace of Ideas or Little Shop of Horrors? Comparing US News Coverage of Local and Distant Suffering

Lauren Kogen
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 393-412
"While we might blame news audiences for their short-lived engagement with foreign crises, their reactions are far less surprising when we look carefully at what news stories truly communicate to readers. As illustrated above, the subtle lessons the news media teach audiences about foreign crises wo ... more
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Communicating During Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"

Marouf Arif Hasian
Lanham; Boulder; New York: Lexington Books (2019), ix, 294 pp.
"The Promise and Perils of " Silence" or " Temoignage" During Humanitarian Crises provides readers with a nuanced study of what happens when historical and 21st century medical humanitarian communities, armed with their idealistic rhetorics, choose whether to speak out or remain silent during variou ... more
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CDC Clear Communication Index: A Tool for Developing and Assessing CDC Public Communication Products. User Guide

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2019), 32 pp.
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Impact as Driving Force of Journalistic and Social Change

Andrea Wagemans, Tamara Witschge, Frank Harbers
Journalism, volume 20, issue 4 (2019), pp. 552-567
"In this article, we explore how entrepreneurial journalists from a wide variety of national contexts present ‘impact’ as one of the aims in their work. By exploring the variety, incongruences, and strategic considerations in the discourse on impact of those at the forefront of journalistic inno ... more
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco-Olvera
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2019), 45 pp.
"This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that “edutainment” can work through an individual or a social channel. Th ... more
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Amazonía: Nuevos caminos para la Iglesia y para una ecología integral

Vinculum (Conferencia de Religiosos de Colombia), issue 277 (2019), 77 pp.
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Comprensión y compasión: El hambre en la prensa de referencia

Susana Morais
Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2019), 622 pp.
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Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by 'The Irrawaddy'

Susan Banki, Ja Seng Ing
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 177-200
"In this chapter we use the twin concepts of precarity and mobilization to explore the tensions associated with media reporting about Myanmar over time, analysing the reporting of the (formerly) exiled media publication The Irrawaddy. The chapter explores coverage through an examination of the sourc ... more
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NGOs as News Organizations

Kate Wright
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Communication
Oxford University Press (2019), 25 pp.
"Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, the predecessors of NGOs—pressure groups—tried to advance their cause by cultivating close relations with the mainstream press, and/or publishing their own periodicals. But from the late 20th century onward, many NGOs started routinely producing their ... more