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D+C: Development and Cooperation, volume 42, issue 1 (2015), pp. 10-29

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Can Radio Drama Improve Child Health and Nutrition in Somalia?

Shiri Landman, Angela Githitho Muriithi

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 11 pp.

"1. Radio, particularly BBC Somali, is an effective medium for reaching people in remote areas of Somalia who are typically hard to reach, including the poorest [...] 2. Drama has been shown to have a particularly powerful role in encouraging audiences to absorb new and relevant information. Tragic ... more

Flucht, Migration und Asyl im Film: Arbeitshilfe mit Filmbeispielen, didaktischen Tipps, Lehrplanbezügen und theoretischen Anregungen zum Thema

Matthias Ganter et al.

Köln: Medienzentrale des Erzbistums Köln (2015), 58 pp.

Communication and Social Mobilization in Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination Campaigns: 10 Points from Field Experience

Max Tello et al.

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015), viii, 31 pp.

"The main objective of this document is to provide evidence-based guidance on conducting practical social mobilization and communication for a yellow fever vaccination campaign, either preventive or reactive. Information is also given on the monitoring and evaluation of communication and social mobi ... more

Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial

Thomas Tufte

Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.

"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial ... more

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The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

Jonathan Corpus Ong

London: Anthem Press (2015), 226 pp.

"Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media, t ... more

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Disasters and Information Source Repertoires: Information Seeking and Information Sufficiency in Postearthquake Haiti

Erich Sommerfeldt

Journal of Applied Communication Research, volume 43, issue 1 (2015), pp. 1-22

"This study examines how Haitians used “information source repertoires” to meet information insufficiencies following the 2010 earthquake. Using survey data gained in Haiti, the study explores which demographic and structural factors predicted the number of sources used and combinations of infor ... more

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Reappraising Indigenous African Communication Systems in the Twenty-First Century: New Uses for Ancient Media

nnaEmeka Meribe

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 203-216

"In Africa, rural people rarely have access to mainstream communication systems and their exposure to them is highly limited by several issues. However, they tend to attach much significance to their indigenous communication systems, indicating that the systems are still relevant today and are, ther ... more

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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence

Valentina Baú

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88

"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication

Anders Hansen, Robert Cox (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 434 pp.

"The first section looks at the history and development of the discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two considers the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication. Section three examines research on news, entertainment media ... more

Metodologias participativas: Os media e a educação

Maria José Brites, Ana Jorge, Sílvio Corrella Santos (eds.)

Covilhã: Livros LabCom (2015), iv, 311 pp.

"Este livro reúne experiências e reflexões de académicos e não académicos sobre as potencialidades dos media para envolver e capacitar comunidades. Ao longo destas páginas, encontram-se textos que documentam propostas educativas e cívicas em torno dos media ou refletem sobre as capacidades d ... more

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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.

Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100

"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more

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Art and Conscientization: Forum Theatre in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, and South Sudan

Claus Schrowange

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2015), 133 pp.

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Planificación y comunicación

Juan Díaz Bordenave, Horacio Martins de Carvalho

Quito: CIESPAL, 2nd ed. (2015), 324 pp.

"La idea fundamental que gira esta obra es la de justicia social dentro de la libertad y la solidaridad. Alarmados por los sintomas del caminar acelerado de la sociedad humana hacia el “admirable mundo nuevo“, de Aldous Huxley, en virtud de los efectos racionalizadores, disciplinadores y uniform ... more

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Interactive Radio! Toolkit for Stations
Key Guidance

Ida Jooste

Internews;University of Cambridge, Centre of Governance and Human Rights (2015), 51 pp.

"This toolkit combines the knowledge and experience of Internews with insights from research conducted by the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights and partners in the Politics and Interactive Media (PiMA) research project. Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA), ... more

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Rádios comunitárias e desenvolvimento sustentável: Mapa digital como prospecção de cenário da comunicação comunitária em áreas de conflito socioambiental na Amazônia

Rosane Maria Albino Steinbrenner, Brunella Lago Velloso, Larissa Carreira da Cunha

XXXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação (Intercom) (2015), 15 pp.

"O presente trabalho apresenta o mapeamento digital de rádios comunitárias na Amazônia Legal, realizado no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Mídia Cidadã e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: mapeamento e estudo das rádios comunitárias em áreas de potencial conflito socioambiental na Am ... more

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Nachhhaltigkeit und Journalismus (Teil 1): Zum Stand der wissenschaftlichen Debatte. Studienbrief im Zertifikatsstudium Nachhaltigkeit und Journalismus

Gerd Michelson (ed.)

Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität (2015), 51 pp.

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Decolonizing Communication for Social Change: A Culture-Centered Approach

Mohan J. Dutta

Communication Theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143

"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro ... more