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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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Understanding Information & Communication Needs: A Study with Disaster Prone Communities in Riverine and Coastal Areas

Network for Information, Response And Preparedness Activities on Disaster (NIRAPAD) (2017), 44 pp.
"Critical gaps in the exchange of humanitarian information include:i) the range of humanitarian messages currently disseminated meets only a part of the communities’ needs [in riverine and coastal areas of Bangladesh], ii) certain messages are ambiguous and people get very limited guidance on how ... more
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Videos für Citizen Science: Tipps zur erfolgreichen Konzeption und Durchführung eines Video-Workshops

Astrid Vogelpohl, Alex Grimm, Wiebke Rettberg, David Ziegler
Deutsches Zentrum für Integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (2017), 29 pp.
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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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Short-Term WASH Interventions in Emergency Response: A Systematic Review

Travis Yates, Jelena Allen, Myriam Leandre-Joseph, Daniele Lantagne
London: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2017), 260 pp.
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Health Information and Monitoring Among Qatari Adolescents

Klaus Schoenbach, Marium Saeed Ellen Wartella et al.
Doha: Northwestern University in Qatar (2017), 63 pp.
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Framework for Data Sharing in Practice. Summary Report, Part II

Copenhagen: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Protection Information Management (PIM) (2017), 4 pp.
"A Framework for Data Sharing in Practice, Part II, is a collective outcome document from two meetings held in 2017, one in New York in May and a follow-up in Copenhagen in December. The meetings were held with support from OCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data. The objective of these meetings was t ... 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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Disability Media Studies

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
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Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere

Niamh Gaynor, Anne O'Brien
Irish Journal of Sociology, volume 25, issue 1 (2017), pp. 29-47
"In this article, which draws on a detailed study of four community radio stations, we have highlighted a number of elements of community radio which contribute towards a democratisation of the public sphere as envisaged by Habermas and his followers. However, we have argued that democratic particip ... more
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Praxishandbuch Historisches Lernen und Medienbildung im digitalen Zeitalter

Daniel Bernsen, Ulf Kerber (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 447 pp.
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Ungleichheit: Was wir dagegen tun können

Anthony B. Atkinson
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 474 pp.
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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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ICT4AG Handbook: A Quick Guide to ICT Solutions for Smallholder Farmers

Namita Singh
Digital Green (2017), 30 pp.
"This handbook gives an overview of a broad range of technologies and can be useful for professionals engaged in agriculture extension, organizations working with smallholder farmers, implementors, donors and other public sector partners. Those interested in the use ICTs for development may also fin ... more
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Controversial Ebola Vaccine Trials in Ghana: A Thematic Analysis of Critiques and Rebuttals in Digital News

Per Egil Kummervold, William S. Schulz, Elizabeth Smout, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Heidi J. Larson
BMC Public Health, volume 17, issue 642 (2017), 24 pp.
"A web-based system was developed to download and analyse news reports relevant to Ebola vaccine trials. This included monitoring major online newspapers in each country with planned clinical trials, including Ghana. All news articles were downloaded, selecting out those containing variants of the w ... more
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit 2017
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Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2017), 205 pp.
"We trust this guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have compiled this guide based on our experience and learning in our youth radio projects across S ... more
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Communicating Biodiversity & Climate Change: A Guide for Crafting Effective Messaging

John Ryan, Jacob Sharrard, Danielle O'Hanley
Ontario Biodiversity Council (2017), 51 pp.
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Utilising Social Media to Support HIV/STI Prevention: Evidence to Inform a Handbook for Public Health Programme Managers

Judit Takács et al.
Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2017), 21 pp.
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

Adam Fish
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and ... more
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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

Heather McIntosh
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more