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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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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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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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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
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Mapeamento de Rádios Comunitárias na Amazônia como ferramenta ao Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Rosane Albino Steinbrenner
Logos 46, volume 24, issue 1 (2017), pp. 78-92
"O presente artigo apresenta os principais resultados do projeto de pesquisa “Mídia Cidadã e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: mapeamento e análise de rádios comunitárias em áreas de pressão socioambiental na Amazônia”, que busca entender a dimensão e o papel potencial das rádios comunitá ... more
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Consumer Testing: A “How-To” Guide for Educational Materials

Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California (TECC) (2017), 15 pp.
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Radionovelando: Curso para producir radionovelas emocionantes

Radio Libres; Radioteca; Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados (2017), 47 pp.
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Innovative Strategies for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia: Information and Communication Technology for Education. Special Focus on Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2017), xi, 156 pp.
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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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Lost in Translation: The Misinformed Journey of Migrants Across Italy

Rose Foran, Anahi Ayala Iacucci
Internews (2017), 22 pp.
"In April 2017, an Internews team conducted a rapid assessment on information needs among refugees and migrants in Italy, visiting formal reception facilities (hotspot, CAS, CARA) in Lampedusa, Agrigento, Catania, and informal centers in Ventimiglia and Rome [...] Lost in Translation examines the cr ... more
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Disability Media Studies

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
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Communication and Social Change: A Citizen Perspective

Thomas Tufte
Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2017), 256 pp.
"Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programs, [the author] presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers bot ... more
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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan
Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15
"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... 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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Pathways to Accountability from the Margins: Reflections on Participatory Video Practice

Jackie Shaw
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 47 pp.
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Communication and Awareness Raising in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs: Activities and Challenges

Eric Mulholland, Alessia Bernardo, Gerald Berger
Vienna: European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) (2017), 48 pp.
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Evaluating the Use of Communication for Development in Conflict Interventions: Measuring Peace in Participatory Communication

Valentina Baú
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 96-112
"The application of Communication for Development (C4D) in conflict prevention, conflict reduction and post-conflict reconstruction interventions is a relatively new field. International organisations that have begun to adopt new communication & media designs in their peace work are progressively of ... 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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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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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