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The Spontaneous Discourse of Radio Presenters in States of Security Emergency
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 16, issue 2 (2018), pp. 207-228
"Scholars from various research disciplines have focused on ways of helping a civilian population withstand mass natural or human-instigated disasters. The present study examines the theoretical principles suggested by Hobfoll et al. (safety, calming, efficacy, connectedness and hope) by an analysis
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El cambio de paradigma en la cobertura informativa de la gestión de riesgo de desastres
Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), issue 136 (2018), pp. 129-144
"Este artículo analizó la cobertura de la gestión de riesgo de desastres en tres regiones de América Latina para conocer si el cambio de paradigma, de pensar el riesgo como una construcción social en lugar de enfocarse en el desastre, se veía reflejado en las narrativas periodísticas. Mediant
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Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2018), xxii, 281 pp.
"Today's global refugee crisis has mobilized humanitarian efforts to help those fleeing persecution and armed conflict at all stages of their journey. Aid organizations are increasingly employing new information technologies in their mission, taking advantage of proliferating mobile phones, remote s
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Landscaping the Digital Humanitarian Ecosystem
London: GSMA (2018), 52 pp.
"As the number of people affected by humanitarian crises continues to rise and as crises become more prolonged, humanitarian stakeholders (including humanitarian agencies, NGOs, and others) are responding in different ways, by partnering with the private sector, integrating innovative approaches and
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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whose News?
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 266 pp.
"Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating
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Digital Volunteer Networks and Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
Digital Journalism, volume 6, issue 7 (2018), pp. 928-944
"Digital technologies and big data are rapidly transforming humanitarian crisis response and changing the traditional roles and powers of its actors. This article looks at a particular aspect of this transformation—the appearance of digital volunteer networks—and explores their potential to act
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Toolkit for Mainstreaming Communication with Communities in Emergency Response
Shongjog; Action Against Hunger (2018), 24 pp.
"In the context of humanitarian action, Communication with Communities (CwC) refers to activities where the exchange of information is used to save lives and mitigate risks of the disaster affected community. It also enables greater accountability in humanitarian organizations and facilitates the de
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Risk Journalism Between Transnational Politics and Climate Change
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 292 pp.
"This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative 'public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates. The authors propose a framework of 'cosmopolitan loops,' which addresses
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Introducing Information Communication Technologies Into Humanitarian Programming
Oxford: Oxfam (2018), 13 pp.
Tools for rapid ICT emergency responses and sustainable development
Smart Sustainable Development Model (SSDM); ITU (2018), xv, 112 pp.
"The SSDM Report 2018 provides a number of concrete steps to further and strengthen the implementation of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Smart Sustainable Development Model (SSDM) Initiative. The ITU Development Telecommunication Bureau (BDT) developed the SSDM Initiative in 201
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The State of Humanitarian Journalism
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not
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Periodismo sobre desastres
Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires (EUDEBA) (2018), 360 pp.
"¿Cómo contar el desastre y mostrarlo, sin horrorizar a la comunidad ni ocultarle información? ¿Cómo conservar la objetividad, cuando la cronista o el movilero deben convivir con la desgracia? ¿Qué criterios se deberían seguir para hacer un buen uso de las redes sociales y no dejarse llevar
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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment
New York: Routledge (2018), xxii, 351 pp.
"Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events-disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters-contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities f
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
London: Routledge (2018), xxiv, 572 pp.
"In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that
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Social Media in Earthquake-Related Communication: Shake Networks
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), 207 pp.
"This book presents a comprehensive framework for disaster communication, with a main focus on earthquake-related communication, building on a previously fragmented, single-case study approach [especially based on experiences in Italy] to analysing the role of social media during natural disasters."
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Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age
New York: Routledge (2018), 252 pp.
"Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with journalists and aid agency press officers, participant observations at the Guardian, BBC and Save the Children UK, as well as the ordinary people who created the words and pictures that framed these disasters, this book reveals how humanitarian disa
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Attitudes Towards Media Coverage of Humanitarian Issues Within the Aid Sector
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 9 pp.
"There is widespread dissatisfaction within the aid industry with the quantity and quality of mainstream news coverage of humanitarian issues and crises. 73% of respondents agreed that mainstream news media does not produce enough coverage of humanitarian issues. Mainstream news coverage was also re
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