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How Does the Time Children Spend Using Digital Technology Impact Their Mental Well-Being, Social Relationships and Physical Activity? An Evidence-Focused Literature Review

Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

Florence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (2017), 35 pp.

"Based on an evidence-focused literature review, the first part of this paper examines existing knowledge on how the time children spend using digital technology impacts their well-being across three dimensions; mental/psychological, social and physical. The evidence reviewed here is largely inconcl ... more

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

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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Langues et médias en Afrique noire francophone: Analyse (socio) linguistique et didactique

Louis Martin Onguéné Essono

Paris: Connaissances et savoirs (2017), 347 pp.

"Langues et médias en Afrique noire francophone est une contribution très précieuse qui se focalise sur cet aspect tout à fait négligé de l'analyse des mutations médiatiques africaines contemporaines : les transformations de la langue. Elle ouvre une réflexion sur ce que la manipulation de l ... more

Online Child Sexual Exploitation: A Common Understanding

Yvonne Nouwen

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2017), 52 pp.

"This booklet contains three series of factsheets related to online child sexual exploitation providing easy, ready-to-use resources to anyone interested in getting a better grasp of this issue. The first series is comprised of factsheets describing different manifestations of online child sexual ex ... more

Puppetry for Education: Breaking Down Barriers for Inclusive Education

Save the Children (2017), 5 pp.

"This is a case story demonstrating how puppetry was integrated into educational programmes in Myanmar to address disabilities and the importance of an inclusive education." (Publisher description)

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Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays

Guy Hodgson (ed.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017), vi, 168 pp.

"This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. It concentrates on the journalists, photographers and film-makers, reflecting not only the motivations behind their work, but also the ps ... more

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Procesos interactivos mediáticos de Radio Sutatenza con los campesinos de Colombia (1947-1989)

Hernando Vaca Gutiérrez

Cali: Programa Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (2017), 385 pp.

"Radio Sutatenza nació en el año de 1947 como una emisora rural de carácter cultural, fundada por el padre José Joaquín Salcedo, para ofrecer educación fundamental integral a los campesinos de Colombia y, de esta manera, transformar sus condiciones de vida personales, familiares y sociales. Co ... more

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Die „Flüchtlingskrise“ in den Medien: Tagesaktueller Journalismus zwischen Meinung und Information

Michael Haller

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2017), 176 pp.

"Unsere Rekonstruktion der komplexen Ereignisabläufe in den zwölf Monaten Untersuchungszeit führte zur Identifikation von zehn Großereignissen. Wir gehen davon aus, dass jedes dieser Ereignisse wegen seines Neuigkeitswertes und seiner disruptiven Bedeutung das Potenzial besaß, meinungsbildende ... more

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Meinung, Macht, Manipulation: Journalismus auf dem Prüfstand

Michael Steinbrecher, Günther Rager (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2017), 233 pp.

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Journalism for Social Change in Asia: Reporting Human Rights

Scott Downman, Kasun Ubayasiri

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xvii, 219 pp.

"This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focuss ... more

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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.

"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more

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"The Woman You Want to Be": The Changing Face of Fairlady Magazine, 1985–2005

Aimee Carelse, Martha Evans

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 115-140

"Feminine identity has always been complicated by race and class in South Africa. The history of beauty pageants, like sporting contests, demonstrates the extent to which culture and contemporary politics intertwine. Examining the cover model choices of women’s magazines offers a fruitful means of ... more

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Citizen Journalism and Democratisation of Mainstream Media in Rwanda

Dominique Nduhura, Michael Prieler

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 178-197

"This paper explores the role that citizen journalism is playing in democratising the mainstream media in Rwanda. Through in-depth interviews with journalists from two radio stations and by using the public sphere theory as a theoretical framework, this research sought to answer the question as to w ... more

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Youth Led Guide on Prevention of Violent Extremism Through Education: #youthwagingpeace

Carolyn Nash, Yulia Nesterova, Kenneth Primrose, Wing Yu Alice Chan, Paul A. Rios, María José Velásquez Flores, Aniqah Zowmi

New Delhi: UNESCO;Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) (2017), 324 pp.

"This guide is driven by the need not to add to the library of information on violent extremism but to underscore a message often missed: to reach young people effectively, we must respect their ability to grasp the reality of injustice, intolerance, and inequity [...] we found that three key messag ... more

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