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Robert Heinze
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Shooting War or Peace Photographs? An Examination of Newswires’ Coverage of the Conflict in Gaza (2008-2009)

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Der Nahe Osten in hundert Köpfen: Biografische Skizzen zu Zeitgeschichte und Gegenwart

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New Perspectives on Strengthening Science Journalism in Developing Countries: Approach and First Results of the ‘SjCOOP’ Mentoring Project

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Pamela J. Cruz, Santiago Rosero
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Benjamin Beil, Jürgen Kühnel, Christian Neuhaus
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Passing on the Hot Potato: Lessons from a Policy Brief Experiment

Penelope Beynon, Marie Gaarder, Christelle Chapoy, Edoardo Masset
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Mark Turin
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Christoph Dietz
Communicatio Socialis, volume 45, issue 2 (2012), pp. 167-176
"Der Artikel skizziert und vergleicht die Marktstrategien und die ökonomische Entwicklung der Verlage Abya-Yala, Ecuador (Ethnologie und Sozialwissenschaften), CEP, Peru (Theologie) und La Crujía, Argentinien (Kommunikationswissenschaft). Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Fachbuchverlage erfolgreich s ... more
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Film als Mittel der Befreiung und der Einheit Afrikas

Manthia Diawara
In: 50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz
AfricAvenir International (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 170-179
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Cultura y communicación: La cooperación española e Iberoamérica

Luis A. Albornoz
In: Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana
Carlos del Valle, Francisco Javier Moreno, Francisco Sierra Caballero (eds.)
Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), pp. 345-360
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Description and Analysis of Advertising Used in Argentinean Radio Prime Time

María José Müller, María del Pilar Martínez-Costa
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 319-328
"Radio advertising in Argentina has been adapted to the changing needs of radio. This paper aims to describe and analyze the advertisement formats used in the four leading prime time programs in Argentina. The methodology is a content analysis that is applied to a sample of four programs each one wi ... more
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This Research does not Influence Policy

Patta Scott Villiers
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 25 -29
"This article concerns a study whose questions, methods and analytical conclusions were the work of a group of Karimojong in Uganda. Its report included text and photographs, plain language, direct voices and faces, and little theorising. When it was disseminated it appealed to local people and to a ... more
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Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers

Nicholas Benequista, Joanna Wheeler
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 45-52
"A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has underappreciated the contribution of researchers as social actors. Researchers inh ... more
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Changing the Financial Landscape of Africa: An Unusual Story of Evidence-informed Innovation, Intentional Policy Influence and Private Sector Engagement

Simon Batchelor
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 84-90
"This article uses the Steven Framework to show the influence of research on the policies and practices of mobile money transfer and mobile phone-enabled payments in Africa. While it is a muchdiscussed subject, few people know the wider narrative by which products such as M-Pesa were intentionally c ... more
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Introduction: Is Development Research Communication Coming of Age?

Blane Harvey, Tessa Lewin, Catherine Fisher
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 2-8
"In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin. We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into ... more