"Videos have been used to successfully raise awareness on disability inclusion in many contexts. They can play a powerful role in helping transform negative attitudes that prevent the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities. Producing a video - even a short one - has many component
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s to consider, so it is important to approach it with a detailed plan, as you would with any project. This toolkit is designed to help you create video(s) that include persons with disabilities at all stages of the process. This toolkit is relevant to all video making, not just those that directly relate to disability as a topic. All videos, whether or not they are about disability, can and should take an inclusive approach. There are many talented persons with disabilities who are able and willing to contribute to making video or films." (Page 4)
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"The handbook is based on the authors’ varied experiences from consulting the implementation of media mappings in several transitional countries and it will focus on two of these projects: a. mapping the Mongolian media landscape initiated in 1999 ten years after the break down of Communism and b.
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the mapping of the Libyan media landscape initiated in 2012 one year after the Libyan revolution in 2011 and the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi. Developing on the experiences from these two projects and subsequent reflections the authors investigate why the Mongolian project was a success and still operating and in turn why the Libyan was far less successful despite similar methodological approaches. On the basis of these experiences the authors provide a description of a number of general circumstances that the authors recommend should be taken into account before and during the process of setting up a media mapping capacity." (IMS website)
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"This series aims to help human rights defenders develop the tools, skills and knowledge they need to engage effectively in cyber policy debates. The series is structured around five modules. The first four each focus on a different aspect of cyber policy - human rights, cybersecurity, regulatory fr
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ameworks and cyber capacity building - with a final regional module highlighting how these apply in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each module consists of several videos, which take participants through a key cyber issue or concept - explaining how it relates to human rights, who the key actors are, and how and where to engage." (Introduction)
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"This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. It focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of op
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en source information, and provides a practitioner’s perspective that is based on several years of analyzing open source materials for a global human rights group. The paper includes case studies on video and image verification, and identifies best and worst practices. The author argues that open source content, specifically citizen media, can play a crucial and increasingly important role in human rights documentation, if analyzed using sound and transparent methodologies based on well-established factfinding principles. It presents, for the first time, a tool-independent analytical framework that will allow both seasoned and new human rights researchers to review and assess open source content. Specific recommendations are offered for human rights organizations, funders, academics, and technology companies in order to realize the full potential of open source content for human rights documentation." (Abstract)
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"The Investigative Journalism Manual (IJM) is designed to equip journalists with core investigative reporting skills and to support watchdog journalism in difficult environments. The results of their work will strengthen existing democratic institutions or serve as a catalyst to establish democratic
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structures where there are none. The manual is an update to the guide published by KAS Media Programme Africa seven years ago, which was accessed by some 30,000 visitors annually. The great success of the first version was the reason for KAS Global Media to revise and internationalize the chapters. Investigative journalists in Africa and Asia often operate in extremely challenging environments, and some are designed specifically to thwart them. The manual is intended to help reporters facing such challenges as repressive media laws, so-called anti-terrorism regulations, the culture of non-transparency and limited resources. The IJM is also a hands-on training tool, allowing readers to test their knowledge with quizzes at the end of each chapter. Relevant case studies, which will be updated continuously, are also provided." (About us, page 115)
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"El lector de “La navaja suiza del reportero” recorrerá una selección de los principales casos de periodismo de datos a nivel internacional y conocerá las herramientas digitales más usadas por las mejores redacciones del mundo para limpiar, analizar y visualizar grandes cantidades de informa
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ción. Desde las más conocidas como Open Refine, creada por Google hace más de un lustro y una de mis favoritas, hasta otras más complejas como el Neo4J, utilizada por el equipo de OjoPúblico -este año, en plena campaña electoral- para crear un especial inédito sobre el financiamiento de los partidos políticos y las campañas presidenciales del Perú en la última década. En el manual de casi 100 páginas -una suerte de crónica sobre los reporteros en tránsito al uso de la tecnología- el lector descubrirá que los periodistas de investigación ya no pueden trabajar aislados como lobos solitarios. La simbiosis creada con los escritores de código ha llevado esta profesión a horizontes desconocidos en la exploración de documentos que antes hubieran sido imposibles de analizar por cualquier medio de comunicación en el mundo." (Presentación)
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"Like the first edition, issued in 2009, this book is intended to inform your professional life. Technically, it is published as a textbook for college courses in journalism ethics and communications ethics, and as the ethics textbook in a course combining journalism ethics and law. I hope that prac
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ticing journalists – especially young men and women who did not take journalism courses in college – will also find it useful for its comprehensive discussion of the standards of the profession. If you fit those categories of student journalist and practicing journalist, you will find yourself addressed directly in this book. I reach out to you in two ways: first, to help you learn to make ethically defensible decisions in the practice of journalism; and, second, to give you the benefit of the thinking of generations of professionals and scholars that resulted in today’s consensus guidelines for ethical conduct. With these goals in mind, I have divided the book into two parts. Part I examines ethics in a general way, shows the relevance of ethics to journalism, and outlines a decision-making strategy. Part II discusses specific subject areas in which journalists frequently confront ethical problems. Throughout the book, the consensus guidelines are explained, not to dictate your decision-making but to offer a starting point for thinking through the issues. The idea is that you don’t have to start from a zero base; you can build on the best thinking of those who have gone before. Where there is disagreement in the profession, I have noted that, too. In several instances I advocate for what I consider to be best practice." (Preface)
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"This toolkit is designed for development practitioners, government officials, academics, monitoring and evaluation specialists, and researchers who are interested in measuring empowerment. The learning objectives of this toolkit are: Users gain a general understanding of empowerment and empowerment
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indices, the importance of measuring empowerment and how a framework can help to measure empowerment. Users understand the various dimensions of COL’s Three-Dimensional Empowerment Framework and how it aligns with the definition of empowerment. Users learn what Likert questions are and some best practices for developing them. Users are able to use the framework to develop a range of Likert questions that address the various facets of empowerment. Users are able to enter data, calculate the index scores and do basic preliminary/ descriptive analysis in Microsoft Excel." (Page 1)
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"Every day, countless conversations take place online about the Catholic faith on social media, and the Diocese of Dallas encourages Church and School personnel to join these conversations to proclaim the Gospel. The Diocese of Dallas also respects the rights of Church and School personnel to use so
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cial media as a form of self-expression. It is important that we make every effort to ensure the safety of producers and consumers of social media, while at the same time ensuring the integrity of the message we proclaim. This requires responsible, focused, and intentional use of new and yet-to-be-developed technologies. These guidelines apply to all Church and School personnel (employees, clergy and all volunteers), and to their use of social networking sites, blogs, or any other kind of social media. Other websites are usually not considered social media, but this policy also applies to the creation, content and use of parish, school, and ministry websites, as well as to online discussion by any Church and School personnel of matters pertaining to ministry." (Page 2)
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