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The Critical Role of Mass Media in International Norm Diffusion: The Case of UNDP Human Development Reports

Devin K. Joshi, Roni Kay O'Dell

International Studies Perspectives, volume 18, issue 3 (2017), pp. 343-364

"What role does mass media play in the promotion of global norms? We address this question through an analysis of Human Development Reports (HDRs) produced by the United Nations Development Programme. Although HDRs have promoted human development ideology over the past twenty-five years, little is k ... more

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Humanitarian Radio Module: South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 55 pp.

"Part I: Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan and the value of Humanitarian Radio as a tool for communicating with communities in a broad range of humanitarian scenarios. It also discusses how Humanitarian Radio promotes accountability and transparency for humanita ... more

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Humanitarian Radio Module: South Sudan. Part III: How to Guide
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Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 66 pp.

"This guide illustrates a step-by-step process of how to develop your own Humanitarian Radio station. Every crisis is different and the needs of the people affected are unique; therefore the information included here is meant as a guide, flexible enough to adapt to the individual needs of your commu ... more

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The Retirement Project of George Stuart Atkins: Development Radio in the Time of Cybernetics

Ian Smillie

Development in Practice, volume 27, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1133-1140

"For years after its start-up in 1979, Farm Radio International (FRI) sent radio scripts and other material to broadcasters in more than 100 developing countries, believing it reached as many as 100 million people. By 2000, however, its unidirectional scattershot approach was being questioned by bot ... more

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Audiencia radial rural a nivel nacional y perfil de consumo

Lima: CPI (2017), 4 pp.

"Con el objetivo de incluir a toda la población del país en las audiencias radiales, el Grupo RPP encargó una investigación a nivel nacional rural que representa el 22% de la población, según cifras oficiales del INEI. De este modo, al juntar los resultados de la audiencia de esta investigaci� ... more

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Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

Nicole K. Eberhart, Jennifer L. Cerully, Amy L. Shearer, Sandra H. Berry, M. Audrey Burnam, Patricia A. Ebener

Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2017), ix, 81 pp.

"The goal of this handbook is to provide guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention (PEI) programs. In the course of developing an evaluation plan for a series of PEI programs implemented statewide by the California Mental Hea ... more

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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums

Igor Krstic

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.

"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse ' ... more

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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.

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What Your Audience Needs to Know in an Emergency: Life-Saving Information. Topic-By-Topic Guide to Core Humanitarian Issues

London: BBC Media Action (2016), various pag.

"These guides are for media professionals working to help audiences affected by humanitarian crises. They give a brief overview of common humanitarian issues in emergencies. They will help you: understand what kinds of problems your audiences are likely to be facing in emergencies; work alongside re ... more

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Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz

Milton Álvarez

In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170

"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi ... more

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Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), xiv, 278 pp.

"This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book illuminates theatre in a diverse range of global contexts and regions. Divided into three sections - histories and cultural memorie ... more

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The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia

Alastair Fraser

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 19 pp.

"This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interactive media. It describes the ways in which many rad ... more

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Advocacy Campaign for the Rights of People with Disabilities: A Participatory Action Research Within a Community-Based Rehabilitation Project in Maharashtra, India

Atul Jaiswal, Shikha Gupta

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, volume 27, issue 4 (2016), pp. 76-92

"This paper aimed to demonstrate how participatory action research (PAR) within a Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) project facilitated community participation to advocate for the rights of people with visual impairment. An advocacy campaign, led by the local people with and without disabilities, ... more

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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out

BBC Media Action (2016)

"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti ... more

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Interactive Radio Program Report: An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Heather Gilberds, Adena Brown, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 23 pp.

"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so ... cial and behavior change communication and edutainment, and leveraging participatory methodologies, Farm Radio International and partners Teen Mental Health and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi worked with local radio broadcasters in Malawi and Tanzania to design and deliver weekly, interactive youth radio shows about mental health. Ongoing engagement with the content, and deliberation over the messages, was facilitated through SMS feedback mechanisms, and mobile polls and quizzes delivered through the radio stations, along with school-based radio listening clubs that met weekly to listen to the programs and discuss the themes in a group. Over the course of the 45-month project, the radio shows gained immense popularity, in large part because they talked about issues that are important to youth, and incorporated the language youth use and music they prefer. The programs attracted an average of 500,000 listeners each week, and received tens of thousands of text messages and Facebook posts by young people giving feedback, telling the radio hosts about what topics they would like to hear about, and asking questions about mental health or requesting to be connected with a mental health expert. The impact of the radio was measured according to whether and to what extent the interactive media programs play a role in triggering or facilitating drivers of the process of change. These drivers include bringing about improvements in knowledge and attitudes, mobilizing a social movement, and facilitating greater social and public support to put mental health on the agenda as a topic of conversation, grounded in new understandings and new knowledge. Our findings demonstrate that an interactive radio campaign can have a marked effect on improving knowledge, decreasing stigma, and increasing demand for mental health services among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth who listened to the radio programs fare better than their peers in understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and in knowing where to go if they or someone they know needs help. Further, interactive radio programs can have a direct impact on reducing stigmatizing attitudes, frequently recognized as a crucial element in promoting improved access to care." (Executive summary) more

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Monitoring and Evaluation of Participatory Theatre for Change

Rebecca Herrington

Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground (2016), 56 pp.

"This Module is not about placing a value on artistic expression, but rather about capturing the true impact of Participatory Theatre for Change (PTC) and helping advance the field through the development of vetted best practice. As discussed in the Module, this starts with design, focusing on the i ... mplementation context and understanding the full dynamics in which PTC activities will take place. The Context Analysis process will help determine how PTC can best be utilised in the implementation environment, how complex the programme should be, and if there are additional activities needed to ensure impact. The information from preliminary design thinking and the Context Analysis then supports the identification and contextualization of the key interrelated theories of change that apply to the programme, serving as a foundation from which the activities can be evaluated. Monitoring then allows for an iterative process of designing individual performances, engaging appropriately and in a context sensitive manner with the community, as well as determining if the PTC activities as implemented are trending towards impact. Regular monitoring helps with course corrections when needed, and leads towards more effective programming. The monitoring of the process and quality helps ensure that the performances are doing no harm, artistic expressions, and implemented in such a manner as to achieve Reach, Resonance, and Response. Monitoring provides the temperature checks to make sure the ecosystem of PTC is balanced. And finally, evaluation helps push PTC programming to the next stage. Strong evaluations provide the community with more information about changes that have happened, even self-reflection through participatory methods. Evaluations also enable the actors to learn about the bigger picture of what worked and did not work beyond the immediacy of the performance space and towards the longer term impacts. It enables informed follow-on activities, as well as learnings that can be shared with the broader field to enhance practice more globally. Lastly, evaluations provide evidence of the great work participatory theatre does as a nuanced, emotionally connected, and transformative approach to communications for development." (Conclusion, pages 38-39) more

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

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Storytelling and Education in the Digital Age: Experiences and Criticisms

Matteo Stocchetti (ed.)

Berlin: Peter Lang (2016), 191 pp.

"While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age – MEDA, the authors take a critical stance towards the alleged ... more

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Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

Nicole Starosielski, Janet Walker (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 296 pp.

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Coming of Age: Communication’s Role in Powering Global Health

Caroline Sugg

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 31 pp.

"Through a careful review of the evidence, this briefing offers a spirited case for why donors, practitioners and developing country governments need to pay more attention to the role of communication in tackling global health. The briefing finds that: Communication has been central to public health ... more

Humanitarian Radio Module: South Sudan. Part III: How to Guide Key Guidance

Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries Top Insights

Humanitarian Radio Module: South Sudan. Part III: How to Guide
Key Guidance

Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
Top Insights