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Covering Conflict in Disaster Affected Communities: A Humanitarian Reporting Field Guide for Journalists

Roehl L. Jamon
Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON); CDAC Network (2018), 50 pp.
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more
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How Media Portrayals of Suffering Influence Willingness to Help: The Role of Solvability Frames

Lauren Kogen, Susanna Dilliplane
Journal of Media Psychology, volume 31 (2017), pp. 92-102
"When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by eliciting sympathy, while those that prompt a more rational respon ... more
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A Red Cross Red Crescent Guide to Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA): Improving Communication, Engagement and Accountability in All We Do

Sharon Reader et al.
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ICRC) (2017), 104 pp.
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Procesos interactivos mediáticos de Radio Sutatenza con los campesinos de Colombia (1947-1989)

Hernando Vaca Gutiérrez
Cali: Programa Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (2017), 385 pp.
"Radio Sutatenza nació en el año de 1947 como una emisora rural de carácter cultural, fundada por el padre José Joaquín Salcedo, para ofrecer educación fundamental integral a los campesinos de Colombia y, de esta manera, transformar sus condiciones de vida personales, familiares y sociales. Co ... more
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Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

Irene Bruna Seu, Shani Orgad (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 165 pp.
"Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achi ... more
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Data collection and social media: Innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid? Event report

Brussels: VOICE (2017), 7 pp.
"On 15 May 2017, as a precursor to the annual General Assembly, VOICE hosted an event entitled “Data collection and social media - innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid?”. The event brought together VOICE members, leading practitioners, and academics. The three panellists were Massimo Mar ... more
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Comunicación, infancia y adolescencia, guía para periodistas: Suicidio

Valeria Román, Celina Abud
Buenos Aires: UNICEF; Red Argentina de Periodismo Científico (2017), 23 pp.
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Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Practices and Places

Sarita Malik, Caroline Chapain, Roberta Comunian (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2017), xv, 286 pp.
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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)

Girma Woldetsadik, Chandrani Raysarkar
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.
"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable ... more
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Stylistic Features of Rural Print Media in Ghana

Paul Anyidoho
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 195-213
"Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-lang ... more
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Disaster Management in the Philippines: Media, Unions, and Humanitarian Action

Kim Scipes
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 321-328
"In this essay, a different way to approach reporting on natural disasters has been suggested. It requires news reporters and their editors to recognize that there are progressive unions and allied organizations that exist, and because of their rootedness in their various communities across the coun ... more
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Reading the Past, Writing the Future: Fifty Years of Promoting Literacy

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 92 pp.
"Reading the past, writing the future: Fifty years of promoting literacy" takes stock of youth and adult literacy interventions which have been implemented since 1966, when UNESCO held its first International Literacy Day. The publication sheds light on the literacy-related challenges the world is n ... more
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Humanitäre Kommunikation: Entwicklung und Emotionen bei britischen NGOs 1945-1990

Matthias Kuhnert
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2017), vi, 318 pp.
"Matthias Kuhnert geht der Frage nach, wie zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen bei der Bevölkerung um Unterstützung für ihre Tätigkeit warben. Am Beispiel zweier britischer NGOs, War on Want und Christian Aid, wird deutlich, welche Emotionen humanitäre Organisationen einsetzten, um ihre Botschaften ... more
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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters

Jingrong Tong
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 400-418
"This article examines how three Chinese and two British newspapers sourced content from social media in their coverage of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the 2013 Ya'an Earthquake, and the 2015 Tianjin Explosion. The media outlets citing of social media content present different patterns in line with ... more
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more
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Storytelling and Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from the Grey Literature

Brett Davidson
Palgrave Communications, volume 3, issue 17093 (2017), 10 pp.
"The article outlines some of the ways in which an understanding of policymaker psychology and factors such as group dynamics and political context are reflected in the grey literature, and the implications of this for understanding the role of storytelling in political advocacy. It highlights pract ... more
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'

Aghogho Akpome
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r ... more
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Deep Insights

Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... more
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The Political Economy of the Media in Malawi: News Coverage of Agricultural Input Subsidies

Anthony Mavuto Gunde
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 19-39
"In this article, media coverage of the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi as was reported in the Weekend Nation newspaper between 2005 and 2012 is examined from a critical political economy perspective. The FISP aimed at subsidising inputs for low income rural farmers. The Weekend Nation ... more