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Interrogating the Role of Zimbabwe's Print Media in Environmental Reporting

Lisborn Webster Mandizvidza
University of South Africa (2018), ix, 263 pp.
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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

Dan O'Hair, Heather Chapman, Megan Sizemore (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2018), xxii, 351 pp.
"Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events-disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters-contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities f ... more
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Countering False Information on Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies

U.S. Department of State, Social Media Working Group for Emergency Services and Disaster Management (2018), 19 pp.
"Best practices for agencies to counter misinformation, rumors and false information are detailed and categorized in this white paper, and challenges and additional considerations are presented for review. This report illustrates methods of countering false information on social media with case stud ... more
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Engaging the Private Sector Towards an Improved Literate Environment: A learning paper on Book Development in Rwanda

Sofia Cozzolino
Save the Children (2018), 23 pp.
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
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Imaginaires médiatiques de la résilience pastorale en Afrique subsaharienne

Étienne Damome, Nadège Soubiale
Communiquer, volume 23 (2018), pp. 1-20
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Sistematización: Prácticas Educomunicativas. Programa de Educación Rural (PER)

Sandra Patricia Díaz Pachajoa
Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte (2018), 70 pp.
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El papel de los medios frente a la desnutrición infantil como fenómeno social contemporáneo

Andrés Felipe Guevara Ariza, Brayan Mateo Falcón Valencia, Daniela Mantilla Moreno, Daniel Felipe Valencia Sarmiento, Johan Sebastián Trujillo Muñoz
Bucaramanga: Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Thesis (2018), 464 pp.
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

Tal Morse
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
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YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

Jean Burgess, Joshua Green
Cambridge, UK; Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 191 pp.
"Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics, ... more
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more
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Programa sobre el uso seguro y responsable de las TIC para adolescentes con discapacidad intelectual

Madrid: Fundación Telefónica (2018), 29 pp.
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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
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Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.
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NGOs and Health Reporting in Tanzania

Ammina Kothari
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 42-60
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Social Media in Earthquake-Related Communication: Shake Networks

Francesca Comunello, Simone Mulargia
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), 207 pp.
"This book presents a comprehensive framework for disaster communication, with a main focus on earthquake-related communication, building on a previously fragmented, single-case study approach [especially based on experiences in Italy] to analysing the role of social media during natural disasters." ... more
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Shifting Norms - Changing Behavior - Amplifying Voice: What Works? 2018 International SBCC Summit. Summit Report

International SBCC Summit (2018), 24 pp.
"From HIV to Ebola, from gender discrimination and violence to infant mortality, from malaria to climate change and access to justice, evidence shows that Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) works. It is critical to strengthening the agency of ordinary people, transforming societies and ... more
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Public Engagement in Malawi Through a Health-Talk Radio Programme ‘Umoyo Nkukambirana’: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Deborah Nyirenda, Tamara Chipasula Makawa, Chapita, Greyson, Chisomo Mdalla, Nkolokosa, Mzati et al.
Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 229-242
"Radio is an effective source of health information in many resource poor countries. In Malawi, 53% of households own radios however few radio programmes in Malawi focus on health issues in the context of medical research. An interactive health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’ was intro ... more
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2017

Care International (2018), 19 pp.
"The importance of media coverage and public awareness to help mobilise funds and increase pressure on decision-makers has been proven again and again. Still, the question on how to ensure better coverage of under-reported crises remains largely unaddressed. So what is needed? Seven equally importan ... more
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Media and Development
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Richard Vokes
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.
"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat ... more
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WhatsApp and Local Media (Grand Nord) – 9-18 September 2018: Reluctance, Refusal, Resistance and the Politicisation of the Ebola Response

UNICEF (2018), 3 pp.