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Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq: Humanitarian Information Needs of Syrian Refugees

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 18 pp.

"The assessment concludes that there is not ‘one magic answer’ to the question of which media channel is the most effective – rather a variety of channels must be used to reach as many people as possible. While TV scores high among both refugees and host population as a preferred media channel ... more

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Interrogating Practitioner Tensions for Raising Citizen Voice with Participatory Video in International Development

Tamara Plush

Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 57-70

"Within international development, strengthening the voice of citizens living in poverty is recognised as vital to reducing inequity. In support of such endeavors, participatory video (PV) is an increasingly utilised communicative method that can stimulate community engagement and amplify the voice ... more

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Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning

Yu Zhang (ed.)

Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer (2015), xxxiv, 1019 pp.

"The aim of this handbook is to collect and share the knowledge and experience from the designers’, developers’, teachers’, and students’ views and provide suggestions and advice for future mobile teaching and learning programs. This book includes six sections: design, development, adoption, ... more

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Making Secondary Trauma a Primary Issue: A Study of Eyewitness Media and Vicarious Trauma on the Digital Frontline

Sam Dubberley, Elizabeth Griffin, Haluk Mert Bal

Istanbul: Eyewitness Media Hub (2015), 69 pp.

"The rapid and incredible growth of eyewitness media (also known as user-generated content or UGC) has led to the emergence of a new cadre of journalists, humanitarian and human rights professionals whose job it is to seek out, verify and edit the most disturbing and traumatic raw images captured by ... non professionals and posted online. These professionals are tasked with viewing and sifting through massive volumes of eyewitness media - that is, raw, unedited, authentic footage now captured regularly on smartphones - to enhance their investigations, reporting, operations, prosecutions and advocacy. Professionals who work with eyewitness media watch disturbing footage from war zones, natural and manmade disasters and accidents over and over again to verify its veracity and to edit out images that are deemed too extreme for viewing by the general public. Viewing traumatic images of death, destruction, blood and unimaginable horrors all day every day - often for years on end - is now an integral part of the daily work of many desk-bound staff working for news, human rights and humanitarian organisations who are often located thousands of miles away from where the actual horrors occur. Whether it is a broadcaster, publisher, human rights or humanitarian professional, symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are now evident amongst staff working in offices on what we call the digital frontline. This study builds upon previous research that proved that viewing distressing eyewitness media can lead psychological injury, including, but not restricted to, such conditions as PTSD and major depression. The principle aim of this research is to explore the following questions: How much distressing eyewitness media are professionals, who work in the three professional sectors, watching? How frequently, and in what volumes are professionals viewing distressing eyewitness media? What kinds of eyewitness media do professionals find particularly distressing?" What coping mechanisms, if any, have been developed by staff to help mitigate the potentially negative effects of viewing distressing content? - What support, if any, do professionals receive from their organisations and senior managers? - Does organisational culture encourage or prevent professionals from requesting support from their organisation’s hierarchy? What training and preparation is provided to raise awareness of or mitigate the adverse impact of trauma exposure on university graduates, newcomers and those established in post? What resources do organisations provide to prevent, mitigate and treat the adverse impact of trauma exposure? Which of those resources have been used? Which are found to be the most useful? What do staff who experience vicarious trauma need and expect from their organisations in order to support them? Based on an online survey (to which we received 209 responses from people working with eyewitness media across all three professional sectors) and 38 in-depth, anonymous interviews we find that: the impact of eyewitness media on journalism, human rights and humanitarian work means that the frontline is no longer geographic. A new type of frontline has emerged that is digital. Staff at an organisation’s headquarters who work with eyewitness media do so daily and often see more horror on a daily basis compared to their counterparts deployed in the field. Consequently, organisations have a duty of care towards office based staff working on the digital frontline who are at serious risk of vicarious trauma and PTSD [...] " (Executive summary, page 3-5) more

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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación

César Bolaño; Delia Crovi Druetta; Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 447-478

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Writing and Producing for Television and Film
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Esta de Fossard, John Riber

New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xiii 234 pp.

"This book is intended as a guide on the use of the visual media for behavior change communication. It is not intended as a textbook for those just entering the world of television or film writing and production. While there are some reminders of good writing and production techniques for many progr ... more

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Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), xix, 271 pp.

"Entertainment-education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa is a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars in entertainment-education, including writers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States. Chapters cover a wide range of application and strategi ... more

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Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

Jingrong Tong

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 204 pp.

"Modernisation becomes a hegemonic ideology in Chinese society, while China faces enormous environmental problems. Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China argues that investigative journalism has constructed a discourse of environmental risk that is in contrast wi ... more

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Comunicación, conflictos y cambio social = Comunicação, conflitos e transformação social

Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Ivanzo Amador, Raquel Cabral (eds.)

Bauru (SP); Temuco; Madrid: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP);Universitat Jaume I de Castellón;Universidad de la Frontera;Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo (2015), 345 pp.

"Este libro nace como una propuesta que busca dar visibilidad a una serie de iniciativas sociales e investigaciones enmarcadas en el ámbito de la comunicación, los conflictos y el cambio social, que en ocasiones no tienen los espacios ni la cobertura necesaria en los contextos académicos. Su obje ... more

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Media Witnessing: Exploring the Audience of Distant Suffering

Maria Kyriakidou

Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 2 (2015), pp. 215-231

"This article aims at demonstrating the relevance of the concept of 'media witnessing' as an analytical lens for the study of audience engagement with media reports of distant suffering. Drawing upon existing theoretical work on the concept, the article approaches media witnessing as a distinct moda ... more

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Stories of Change: Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2015), 25 pp.

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The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action

Roger Mac Ginty, Jenny H. Peterson (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xxvii, 458 pp.

"The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action addresses the political, ethical, legal and practical issues which influence reactions to humanitarian crisis. It does so by exploring the daily dilemmas faced by a range of actors, including policy makers, aid workers, the private sector and the benef ... more

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Participatory Visual Research with Subsistence Farmers in Papua New Guinea

Katja Mikhailovich, Barbara Pamphilon, Barbara Chambers

Development in Practice, volume 25, issue 7 (2015), pp. 997-1010

"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p ... more

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Digital Inequality and Second-Order Disasters: Social Media in the Typhoon Haiyan Recovery

Mirca Madianou

Social Media + Society, volume 1, issue 2 (2015), 11 pp.

"This article investigates the intersection of digital and social inequality in the context of disaster recovery. In doing so, the article responds to the optimism present in recent claims about “humanitarian technology” which refers to the empowering uses and applications of interactive technol ... more

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Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education

Eliza M. Govender, Sertanya Reddy

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 243-261

"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr ... more

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Teaching Journalism for Sustainable Development: New Syllabi

Fackson Banda (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2015), 165 pp.

"This work aims to extend the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education to include new syllabi covering emerging or particularly relevant themes in journalism education globally. As such, it builds on the model curricula – as well as the supplementary UNESCO publication titled A Compendium o ... more

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Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132

"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more

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Climate Visuals: Seven Principles for Visual Climate Change Communication (based on International Social Research)

Adam Corner, Robin Webster, Christian Teriete et al.

Oxford: Climate Outreach (2015), 41 pp.

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Effective Communications: Participant Handbook for WHO Staff

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2015), 93 pp.

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Building Peace Through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-Affected Communities

Valentina Baú

Community Development Journal, volume 50, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-137

"This paper draws on the experience of conducting participatory video in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. By linking development communication to conflict transformation theory, this article offers a ... more

Writing and Producing for Television and Film Key Guidance

Writing and Producing for Television and Film
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