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Information in the Midst of Crisis: Addressing the Information Needs of Internally Displaced Persons at the Tong Ping Protection of Civilians Site, Juba, South Sudan. July 2014

Forcier Consulting;Internews;USAID, July version (2014), 54 pp.

"This report demonstrates how providing information to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in South Sudan can dramatically increase their health, safety and well-being and make a positive impact on their lives in the midst of an ongoing conflict [...] Boda Boda Talk Talk (BBTT) was the first Humanit ... more

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Making Waves: Media’s Potential for Girls in the Global South

Caroline Sugg

London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.

"Argues that media — whether traditional or online — matters a great deal in the lives of girls in the developing world. It matters because it has the ability to be harmful to girls’ interests and selfesteem, and it matters because it can also be so effective in playing a positive role in girl ... more

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Information in the Midst of Crisis: Addressing the Information Needs of Internally Displaced Persons at the Tong Ping Protection of Civilians Site, Juba, South Sudan

Forcier Consulting;Internews;USAID, December update (2014), v, 103 pp.

"In February, 2014, Internews worked with Forcier Consulting to conduct a baseline survey of 612 respondents from the Tong Ping site to identify information needs, sources, and preferences to help guide their intervention strategies, and in April 2014 Internews again teamed up with Forcier Consultin ... more

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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.

"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop ... more

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Salam from Pesantren: Santri’s Experience in Managing Media for Peace

Nor Ismah

Jakarta: Search for Common Ground (2014), 62 pp.

"The following stories come from ten pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Indonesia that participated in Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia’s project to promote peace and tolerance in pesantren across Indonesia [...] Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia implemented this two-year pro ... more

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Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration

Marseille; New York: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC);Panos Europe (2014), 32 pp.

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Partnerships, Advocacy and Communication for Social Change

Stephen Boyle (ed.)

UNICEF (2014), 35 pp.

"The purpose of this booklet and accompanying webinar is to assist UNICEF staff and our partners to understand the basic concepts of the many unfounded social norms, beliefs and cultural practices – what they are and how they operate – that are responsible for the many layers of stigma and bias ... more

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Our Voice, Our Power: Empowering Women Through Community Media in Bangladesh

Fahmida Akhtar, Protiva Banerjee (eds.)

Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2014), 27 pp.

"The book contains profiles of 12 women between the ages of 18 and 26 that were selected to follow a 3-month journalism fellowship and work at community radio stations. The program was designed and implemented by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in cooperation with 11 comm ... more

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The Development and Sustainability of Indigenous African Language Newspapers: A Case Study of 'Seipone', 'Nthavela' and 'Nghoho News'

Edgar Julius Malatji

Limpopo: University of Limpopo, Master Thesis (2014), ix, 149 pp.

"There is a conspicuous importance of having newspapers that publish in the indigenous African languages for the indigenous population in a democratic dispensation. The indigenous African languages are key components of their respective cultures. The survival of the language is, in some way, depende ... more

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Producing Citizenship in Contexts of Conflict: Citizenship Practices Among Youth Participating in Save the Children’s Media Production Programs in Colombia

Lorenzo Vargas

Montreal: McGill University, Master Thesis (2014), 139 pp.

"This MA thesis explores the emergence of new citizenship practices among youth participating in two school-based media collectives in areas of Colombia marked by violence and conflict. I draw from Rodriguez’s (2001, 2011) citizens’ media theory, which highlights the role of performance in commu ... more

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Media Use in Somalia 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2013), 2 pp.

"The majority of Somalis (65.6%) access news at least once per day. More than one in four Somalis (27.9%) share news daily or most days. Radio is the most popular means for obtaining news in Somalia, with more than four in five (83.9%) reporting they get news via radio at least once per week. More t ... more

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Media Use in Vietnam 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2013), 2 pp.

"Vietnamese are avid news consumers; nine in 10 (89.8%) say they access news at least daily, while 93.9% do so at least once a week. Weekly access to TV news varies little by gender, education or urban vs. rural residence. This in part reflects the finding that televisions are ubiquitous throughout ... more

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Jugendmedienschutz in Deutschland

Henrike Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, Thorsten Junge, Uwe Sander (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2013), 372 pp.

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Will the Social Media Lenses be the Framework for Sustainable Development in Rural Nigeria?

Robert Madu, Shedrack Chinwuba Moguluwa

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 237-254

"As academia, development experts and policy-makers have continued to search for the right mix of technology, methodology, easy-to-use and understandable scientific elements and infrastructure that would suit the nation’s peculiar circumstances towards meeting her developmental needs. This situati ... more

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Framing Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Intermediaries of Urgency, Spirituality and De-Nationalization

Anna Roosvall

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 4 (2013), pp. 392-409

"This article examines representations of indigenous peoples in Swedish and Canadian press coverage of the Copenhagen climate summit (COP15). It discusses tensions between the international character of UN summits and the often transnational character of indigenous peoples as well as the issue of cl ... more

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A Snapshot of Life and Media Use in Vietnam: Findings from the World Poll

Gallup;Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2013), 53 slides

"Vietnam is changing rapidly: attitudinal, socio-economic and media usage. Traditional media, especially television, is still dominant. New media is pushed forward by young people and those with the most education: urban-rural divides in media use are closing; internet has overtaken radio as key new ... more

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Minderheiten machen Medien: Was gibt's Neues?

Pogrom, volume 44, issue 4-5 (2013), pp. 17-72

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Democratizar la palabra: Movimientos convergentes en comunicación

Osvaldo León (coord.)

Quito: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (alai) (2013), 310 pp.

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Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences

Anne Kaun

Tartu: University of Tartu Press (2013), 133 pp.

"The main objective of this book was to explore contemporary expressions of civic culture in Estonia by looking at civic experiences: how do young people in Estonia experience their relationship with the political, politics and fellow citizens, and how do their civic experiences intersect with media ... more

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Wandel der Beratung durch Neue Medien

Joachim Wenzel

Göttingen: V & R Unipress (2013), 271 pp.

"Immer häufiger wird Beratung mit Hilfe von Medien durchgeführt, sei es alternativ oder parallel zur Face-to-Face-Beratung. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie befasst sich mit diesen Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Beratungsstellen. Dazu wurden psychosoziale Beratungsstellen untersucht, die Sexual- ... more