"The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for anyone involved in humanitarian assistance who produces communications on behalf of an organisation (e.g. press releases, social media, fund raising appeals) or engages with the media (e.g. interviews). It aims to support communications expert
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s to provide accurate information that protects and supports infants and young children and their caregivers and reduces harmful interventions." (Page 1)
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"The revised edition of 20 Questions about Youth and the Media is an updated and comprehensive guide to today's most compelling issues in the study of children, tweens, teens and the media. The editors bring together leading experts to answer the kinds of questions an undergraduate student might ask
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about the relationship between young people and media. In so doing, the book addresses a range of media, from cartoons to the Internet, from advertising to popular music, and from mobile phones to educational television. The diverse array of topics include government regulation, race and gender, effects / both prosocial and risky,, kids' use of digital media, and the commercialization of youth culture. This book is designed with the undergraduate youth/children and media classroom in mind, and features accessible writing and end-of-chapter discussion questions and exercises." (Publisher description)
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"Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dem Wandel der Familien im Spiegel von aktuellen Film- und Fernsehproduktionen. Zum einen geht es darum, wie Filme von «realistischen» Familien erzählen – im Alltag, aber auch in Extremsituationen, Krisen und Konflikten, zum anderen werden in den Figuren auch
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Idealvorstellungen von Familie und Lebensglück artikuliert. Im ersten Teil werden allgemeine Überlegungen zu Entwicklungsprozessen und Konflikten in der Familie aus psychologischer Sicht und zum spezifischen Wandel der Familienwerte entfaltet. Der Hauptteil konzentriert sich auf die Analyse einzelner Filme: HÖHERE GEWALT von Ruben Östlund, ELTERN von Robert Thalheim, DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN von Philip Gröning oder SCHWESTERN von Anne Wild, wobei zu den beiden letzten Filmen ausführliche Interviews mit dem Regisseur bzw. der Regisseurin geboten werden. In populären TV-Serien wird das Familienthema in Bezug auf die Gegenwart in der TV-Soap GUTE ZEITEN, SCHLECHTE ZEITEN und in historischer Perspektive in der populären britischen Serie DOWNTON ABBEY untersucht. Ein spezieller Blick wird auf Familien in Kurzfilmen geworfen. Überlegungen zur Bedeutung des Films für die pastorale Arbeit der Kirche runden das Themenspektrum ab." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Written by an experienced theatre and puppetry director, 'Puppetry: How to Do It' focuses on the performer and the craft of bringing any puppet to life. No puppet-making is required to use this book: starting just with simple objects, it lays out the skills required to unlock a puppet's limitless p
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otential for expression and connection with an audience. Inside you'll discover fifty practical, easy-to-follow exercises - for use in a group or on your own - to develop elements of the craft, build confidence and help you improve your puppetry through play and improvisation. Also included are sections on different types of puppet, thinking about how the puppeteer is presented on stage and how to direct and devise puppet performances." (Back cover)
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"En este trabajo de investigación posdoctoral se invita a los periodistas de los medios de comunicación de América Latina a transformar sus prácticas y narrativas para dar voz a la niñez e incluirlas en los discursos mediáticos autorregulando el ejercicio profesional para aportar en la consoli
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dación de imaginarios de la niñez como sujeto de derechos, partiendo de estudios en sociología jurídica sobre el derecho y la comunicación, y tomando como referentes a autores como Liebel (2015), quien expone las contradicciones que tiene la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño al dejar fuera a las infancias (Gaitán, 2006) y a su autonomía (Cordero, 2015), centrando su postulado en la mirada adultocéntrica (Picontó, 2016). Así mismo, aquí se expone que la Convención no contempla los medios de comunicación en los escenarios convergentes (Prensky, 2001), sino en la linealidad del siglo pasado, dejando de lado la sociosemiótica de las hipermediaciones (Scolari, 2013), la teoría de los nuevos medios y los nuevos consumos culturales (Igarza, 2009). Así, esta investigación busca abrir nuevas tramas de significación que permeen el discurso mediático en el que predomine la concepción de los niños y las niñas como sujetos de derechos y sujetos sociales." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Across three studies, younger victims are associated with greater levels of sexual violence, produced within a family context and more likely to be widely distributed. However, the preponderance of images are of pubescent and pre-pubescent children and the numbers of images of very young children (
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infants and toddlers) remain relatively low. This is in contrast to the views of experts interviewed in the current study. The majority of victims and offenders are white Caucasians, and while there has been an increase in other ethnic groups, these numbers remain disproportionately small. This does require further investigation given the increasing availability of Internet connectivity through hand-held devices across hand-held devices and the concerns expressed about, for example, live streaming of abuse." (Executive summary, page 5)
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"Seit das DSM 5 die »Internet Gambling Disorder« als Störungsbild unter Vorbehalt auswies, sind Medien erstmals in den Einzugsbereich therapeutischen Handelns gerückt. Da für Diagnostik und Therapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit medienbezogenen Störungen von analytischer und tiefenpsycholog
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ischer Seite bisher keine systematischen Ansätze vorliegen, entwickelt das Buch ein Menschenbild und eine Psychodynamik des medial eingebundenen Jugendlichen und Kindes, welches sich an den realen und konkreten technischen Gegebenheiten orientiert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Através deste estudo exploratório, onde foram entrevistadas 15 famílias portuguesas com filhos até 6 anos, pretendeu-se conhecer as atividades das crianças com os meios digita, perceber como as tecnologias são entendidas pelos diferentes membros das famílias e como é feita a gestão da util
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ização dos meios digitais. As crianças usam tecnologias desde que têm 1 ano de idade, principalmente o tablet, o seu dispositivo preferido, maioritariamente para jogar e não sendo produtoras de conteúdos. Quando as crianças iniciam a exploração digital, os pais apresentam-lhes os dispositivos, sem regras, mas se começam a verificar excesso de utilização, tendem a colocar regras rígidas, como tempos curtos de utilização, gerando-se conflitos. Os pais preferem que elas brinquem no exterior, no entanto assumem utilizar as tecnologias para entreterem os filhos. Para os pais, os filhos ainda são muito jovens e não correm riscos neste uso, pois não sabem ler nem frequentam redes sociais, sendo as tecnologias uma ferramenta mais significativa no ensino primário. No entanto, os filhos têm mais competências digitais do que eles concebem: fazem download e aprendem a jogar jogos de modo autónomo, pesquisam vídeos e músicas no YouTube, gerem a memória dos dispositivos ou utilizam as opções da televisão por subscrição. Os pais concebem as tecnologias como relevantes para os filhos no seu futuro ou acesso à informação, assim como percepções negativas, como a pedofilia e rapto, questões ligadas às redes sociais. Poucas crianças mencionaram a utilização de tecnologias para questões educativas em casa ou no jardim de infância. É necessário providenciarmos oportunidades e experiências às crianças para se envolverem com as tecnologias digitais, tendo como objetivo desenvolver competências operacionais, assim como o seu envolvimento em brincadeiras imaginativas de novas e inovadoras maneiras. Os pais têm o papel de as acompanhar neste uso, proporcionando uma utilização segura e proveitosa." (Contracapa)
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"This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviews of the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to unde
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rstanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond." (Publisher description)
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"[This report] surveys the landscape of digital opportunity as it relates to – and affects – children. It examines the digital divides that prevent millions of children from accessing through the internet new opportunities to learn and, someday, to participate in the digital economy, helping to
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break intergenerational cycles of poverty. It also explores the undeniably dark side of the internet and digital technology, from cyberbullying to online child sexual abuse to Dark web transactions and currencies that can make it easier to conceal trafficking and other illegal activities that harm children. It reviews some of the debates about less obvious harms children may suffer from life in a digital age – from digital dependencies to the possible impact of digital technology on brain development and cognition. And it outlines a set of practical recommendations that can help guide more effective policymaking and more responsible business practices to benefit children in a digital age. Equally important, this report includes the perspectives of children and young people on the impact of digital technology in their lives – telling their own stories about the issues that most affect them." (Foreword, page vi)
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"In June 2017, 490 children aged 10–18, from 26 different countries and speaking 24 official languages, participated in workshops held by UNICEF Country Offices and National Committees to share their views on how and why they use digital technologies in their everyday lives, as well as their aspir
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ations for the future of our digitally mediated world. Undertaken with the aim of generating data with children for publication in the State of the World's Children (SOWC) 2017 report, this project was a joint effort of the RErights.org team in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, UNICEF New York and a network of 26 UNICEF Country Offices and National Committees. It built on a previous international study that channelled children’s insights into global efforts to reinterpret the Convention on the Rights of the Child for the digital age (Third et al. 2014). Summaries of the findings of this project have been included in the SOWC report. This Companion Report, which should be read alongside the main report, explores in further detail the rich contributions of children for understanding the opportunities and challenges digital technologies present in their everyday lives." (Executive summary)
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"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
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usive with respect to impact on children’s physical activity, but indicates that digital technology seems to be beneficial for children’s social relationships. In terms of impact on children’s mental well-being, the most robust studies suggest that the relationship is U-shaped, where no use and excessive use can have a small negative impact on mental well-being, while moderate use can have a small positive impact. In the second part of the paper, the hypothetical idea of addiction to technology is introduced and scrutinized. This is followed by an overview of the hypothetical idea that digital technology might re-wire or hijack children’s brains; an assumption that is challenged by recent neuroscience evidence. In conclusion, considerable methodological limitations exist across the spectrum of research on the impact of digital technology on child well-being, including the majority of the studies on time use reviewed here, and those studies concerned with clinical or brain impacts. This prompts reconsideration of how research in this area is conducted. Finally, recommendations for strengthening research practices are offered." (Abstract)
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"A obra é resultado de dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação defendido na Universidade de São Paulo (USP) em 2012, a obra contextualiza as práticas educativas salesianas a partir do paradigma da educomunicação. A pesquisa foi orientada pelo professor Ismar de Oliveira Soares,
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responsável pela pesquisa que identificou, no final dos anos 1990, a educomunicação como um campo autônomo do conhecimento na interface Comunicação-Educação. É possível dizer que a reflexão sobre a Educomunicação transformou-se numa prática corrente entre as Salesianas, ao menos em nível institucional. Como será demonstrado ao longo da presente obra, as Salesianas vêm aprofundando a temática em assembleias mundiais, em eventos e em suas inúmeras publicações no Brasil, nas Américas e em nível mundial. Fruto de um levantamento minucioso, a pesquisa buscou nas origens da história salesiana do ramo feminino em seus quase dois séculos, a inter-relação entre comunicação e educação, partindo do contexto latino-americano até chegar ao contexto mundial que assumiu a educomunicação como revitalização do Sistema Preventivo. Voltando para o contexto brasileiro, o foco da investigação buscou os indícios educomunicativos no material didático, no currículo e nas atividades do contraturno escolar da Rede Salesiana de Escolas nas cinco regiões geográficas." (Página web Editora Fi)
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"This rapid evidence review examines adolescents’ access to and use of digital media (especially mobile phones and the internet), together with the associated digital skills and practices, opportunities and risks, and forms of safety mediation, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The revi
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ew is especially concerned with 10- to 14-year-old girls’ digital media uses, although little evidence specifically addressed this group. It is guided by two overarching research questions: 1. What do scholars and practitioners know about how young adolescents are using digital media (computers, mobile phones and other information and communication technologies, ICTs) and the key challenges these children face? What are the opportunities involved in their use of such media and what are most significant gaps in our knowledge? 2. What evidence is there of local, national and international development programmes’ effective use of digital media to target 10- to 14-year-olds (rather than older adolescents)? What are the most significant gaps in the existing knowledge about these interventions and their outcomes?" (Executive summary)
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