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Plan national de communication du secteur eau, assainissement et hygiene

Ministère de l' Eau, de l' Energie et des Hydrocarbures (2017), 45 pp.

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Managing Disaster Response Through Mobile: Asia Pacific

Barbara Arese Lucini, Akanksha Sharma

London: GSMA (2017), 15 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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Media Approaches to Communicating for Development: Communication for Development Roundtable

Valentina Baú, Tait Brimacombe

Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) (2017), 13 pp.

"In June 2017, a group of researchers from Australian universities and practitioners from different not-for-profit organisations came together to share knowledge and experience in the study and practice of Communication for Development (C4D). This Roundtable was organised as a side-event to the RDI ... more

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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Jalal Shah

Internews (2017), 5 pp.

"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w ... more

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Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project. Facilitator's Guide

Musola C. Kaseketi, John Chiti, Elaine Maane

Cape Town; Livingstone: Steps;Vilole Images Productions (2017), 12 pp.

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Puppetry for Education: Breaking Down Barriers for Inclusive Education

Save the Children (2017), 5 pp.

"This is a case story demonstrating how puppetry was integrated into educational programmes in Myanmar to address disabilities and the importance of an inclusive education." (Publisher description)

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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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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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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220

"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more

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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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A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Communication of SME Support: An Exploratory Qualitative Study in Turkmenistan

Maya Velmuradova

In: Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2017), pp. 135-151

"Certain researchers call to reconsider Communication for development and social change as a problem of “Techniques and Society” (McArthur, Jouët, Bardini, Lohento, Kiyindou, Missé). Thus, the models of social integration of innovations are used here to study how the new development assistance ... 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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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen

London; New York: Routledge (2017), vii, 178 pp.

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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.

"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more

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Radio as an Educational Tool in Developing Countries: Its Evolution and Current Usages

Bhaskar Sarmah, Sukmaya Lama

International Conference on Developmental Interventions and Open Learning for Empowering and Transforming Society (2017), 14 pp.

"This paper makes an attempt to trace the evolution and growth of radio as a tool of education, particularly distance education in the developing countries. Apart from that, the paper also makes an attempt to outline the content of the Radio programmes across these countries of the world. Last, but ... more

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Moving from Information Dissemination to Community Participation in Forest Landscapes: How Development Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Are Using Participatory Development Communication Approaches

Bangkok: Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC);FAO (2017), 64 pp.

"This paper offers a brief overview of the basic and practical steps involved in the participatory development communication (PDC) process to assist sustainable forest practitioners and communication officers to adopt a PDC approach in their work. The paper then reviews the PDC components of six cas ... more

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A Bigger Splash – Partnering for Impact: Lessons from BBC Media Action’s Work to Improve Maternal and Child Health

Sophia Wilkinson

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 30 pp.

"Drawing on BBC Media Action’s work on maternal and child health with governmental and non-governmental partners in Bangladesh, India and Ethiopia, this paper discusses: the value of these partnerships for successful health communication; the part played by media and communication in wider health ... 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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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Quick Overview

FHI 360;Rockefeller Foundation (2017), 103 pp.

"This inventory was developed by FHI 360, with grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, to support resilience practitioners and the broader development community to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. It was primarily popu ... more

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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Quick Overview