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Seeing is Believing: The SPRING/Digital Green Experience in Niger. Evidence from a Community Video Approach for Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors

Leanne Dougherty, Marjolein Moreaux, Chaibou Dadi, Sophie Minault
Arlington, Va.: Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) (2016), 47 pp.
"Community video is a powerful approach to improving nutrition practices, even in areas beset by drought, conflict, and food shortages. When community members create and share videos that promote optimal nutrition and hygiene behaviors, friends and neighbors pay attention. This report details the po ... more
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Rural Communication Services for Family Farming: Contributions, Evidence and Perspectives

Rome: FAO (2016), x, 52 pp.
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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses

Brooke Fisher Liu, Julia Daisy Fraustino, Yan Jin
Communication Research, volume 43, issue 5 (2016), pp. 626-646
"This study provides insights that can inform disaster communication management, policymaking, and theory building through a nationally representative field experiment (N = 2,015 U.S. adults) grounded in media richness theory, information and communication technologies (ICTs) succession theory, and ... more
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Communications, Knowledge Management, and Media Strategy

UN-REDD (2016), 39 pp.
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Managing Social Media During Emergencies Guide

Sarah Bishop
Adelaide: Local Government Association of South Australia (2016), 34 pp.
"This Managing Social Media During Emergencies Guide is designed to assist Councils to better plan, manage and continue to improve the effectiveness of social media use during an emergency event." (Intorduction, page 4)
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UNICEF Nepal C4D Response: Earthquake 2015

Kathmandu: UNICEF Nepal (2016), 16 pp.
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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up

Valentina Baú
Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13
"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communication and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the recon ... more
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Digital Humanitarians: Citizen Journalists on the Virtual Front Line of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters

Wendy Norris
Journalism Practice, volume 11, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 213-228
"Eyewitness user-generated content has dominated the study of citizen journalism in crisis and conflict zones. However, the convergence of online networked technologies, like social media, collaborative mapping and real-time information management, gives ordinary people the capacity to commit acts o ... 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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Social Media Strategy Development: A Guide to Using Social Media for Public Health Communication

Stockholm: ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016), iv, 44 pp.
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Exploring the Potential for Interactive Radio to Improve Accountability and Responsiveness to Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania

Heather Gilberds et al.
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 36 pp.
"The research examines the possibilities of new digital technologies along with radio to facilitate adaptive management processes through rapid feedback to help ensure that agricultural development projects are farmer-centered, and meet the needs of those they intend to serve. Grounded in assessing ... more
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Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation

Fengchun Miao, Sanjaya Mishra, Rory McGreal (eds.)
Paris; Burnaby: UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 231 pp.
"Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the W ... more
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Polio Communication Global Guide: A How-To Manual for the Art and Science of Maximising Immunisation Rates Through Communication

Polio Global Eradication Initiative; UNICEF (2016), 33 pp.
"The Polio Communication Global Guide is a how-to manual for planning and building effective mass media and interpersonal communication strategies with the ultimate goal of eradicating polio. This document outlines UNICEF’s global approach to polio communication informed by data and on-the-ground ... more
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Media as a Form of Aid in Humanitarian Crises

Jeffrey Ghannam
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 6 pp.
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Open and Distance Education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East: National Perspectives in a Digital Age

Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Adnan Qayyum (eds.)
Springer (2016), viii, 140 pp.
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From Garamut to Mobile Phone: Communication Change in Rural Papua New Guinea

Amanda H. A. Watson, Lee R. Duffield
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 4, issue 2 (2016), pp. 270-287
"This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption. The research indicates that the introduction of mobile telecommunications has generally been viewed positively, with mo ... more
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A Report on the Role of the Media in the Information Flows That Emerge During Crisis Situations

Paul Reilly, Dima Atanasova
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden (2016), 41 pp.
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Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola

Sophia Wilkinson
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 30 pp.
"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organisation’s response. The paper aims to contribute t ... more
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"La pobreza": Ficción en los medios, realidad en la comunidad

Silvia Constanza Oviedo Botero
Forma y Función, volume 29, issue 2 (2016), pp. 203-244
"Este trabajo propone analizar la representación de la pobreza como fenómeno social, desde la perspectiva de los medios de comunicación. Para este caso, se analizaron algunas notas de prensa del diario El Espectador, publicadas entre finales del 2013 y principios del 2014, en las que el término ... more
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Cuentos y mitos amazónicos en la construcción de la identidad cultural indígena desde la educomunicación

Mónica Janeth Villanueva Galdos
Barcelona: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Master en comunicación y desarrollo (2016), 79 pp.
"Frente a la ausencia de material educativo elaborado desde los valores y la cosmovisión de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, este proyecto presenta una serie de cuentos y mitos amazónicos, al servicio de los procesos educativos interculturales -formales y no formales- en la ciudad de Lima-P ... more