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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

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Storytelling and Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from the Grey Literature

Brett Davidson

Palgrave Communications, volume 3, issue 17093 (2017), 10 pp.

"The article outlines some of the ways in which an understanding of policymaker psychology and factors such as group dynamics and political context are reflected in the grey literature, and the implications of this for understanding the role of storytelling in political advocacy. It highlights pract ... more

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Discriminación étnico-racial en medios de comunicación: Diagnóstico situacional

Marisol Castañeda Menacho, Silvia Lorena Chávarri De Los Ríos et al.

Lima: Ministerio de Cultura (2017), 134 pp.

"De acuerdo con los estudios de análisis de medios reseñados, se confirma con claridad que las poblaciones que sufren más discriminación de manera sistemática en los medios son las comunidades indígenas y afroperuanas. Por un lado, la población indígena es comúnmente representada en asociac ... more

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The Future of Learning and Technology in Deprived Contexts

Tim Unwin, Mark Weber, Meaghan Brugha, David Hollow

London: Save the Children (2017), 51 pp.

"This report has focused on predicting what basic education, the use of ICTs, and the ways that these technologies will contribute to education will look like by 2025, with a particular emphasis on the implication for those living in the most deprived locations. Three broad conclusions are appropria ... te. First, there is immense diversity, not only in education delivery but also in access to, and use of, ICTs. This will remain the case in 2025, and the resultant inequalities might well be very much worse than they are today. If current trends continue, then the use of technologies by the rich will be markedly different from the use of ICTs by the poor. The most deprived will continue not to have access to ICTs, will continue not to benefit from them, and will become relatively more disadvantaged. However, millions of slightly better off poor people will indeed be able to benefit from the potential that existing ICTs will be able to deliver over the next decade, especially in terms of access to educational content that may enable them to live more fulfilled lives. Second, for education systems to be improved, especially for the poorest and most marginalised children, there must be a fundamental rethinking of the vision for education in almost every country of the world. Educational change is slow, but some of those consulted for this report were optimistic, and thought that the pressure for change will soon become so high that governments will have to respond by instigating fundamental reforms. These, though, will be very expensive, and it still remains unclear how they will be funded and implemented. While the ICT sector is still likely to experience much rapid innovation, it is much more probable that the education sector will only evolve slowly. It is therefore also important that these technologies are used to enhance opportunities for learning everywhere, even where the education systems are slow to evolve. Third, there have indeed been many exciting and innovative uses of technology within education over the last two decades, and some of these are already being applied in contexts of both physical and socio-cultural deprivation. However, all too often those implementing ICTs initiatives in the education sector focus primarily on the technologies, rather than the education. If technology is indeed to be used to support learning, both in school and out of it, there needs to be a complete reversal of much current practice. The focus must be first on the education, and only then on the various technologies that can help deliver it." (Conclusions, page 20) more

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Digital Tools and Changing Behaviour in Relation to Violence Against Women

William Robert Avis

Birmingham: University of Birmingham, GSDRC (2017), 23 pp.

"Campaigns are likely to be more successful when they include messages about legal penalties for non-compliant behaviour and fresh information, and when they reach a large proportion of the intended audience. Digital campaigns must therefore work alongside laws and policies. Legislation can be a key ... more

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Conceptual Evolution of the Digital Divide: A Systematic Review of the Literature Over a Period of Five Years (2010 – 2015)

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya

World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies (2017), pp. 41-74

"Throughout the last twenty years the digital divide – a multidimensional concept – has evolved in a manner that takes account of various technological, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural considerations. The objective of this study is to access recent conceptualizations of the t ... more

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Community Action and Social Media: A Review of the Literature

Kevin Harris, Angus McCabe

Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) (2017), 70 pp.

"The literature on the social uses of social technologies is substantial and expanding. Using over 400 sources, the current review outlines the key themes emerging from academic, grey literature and online material in this field. Much of this literature argues for the transformative power of social ... more

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Digital Development and the Digital Gender Gap

Siân Herbert

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 11 pp.

"This rapid literature review collates findings from recently published papers on digital development and gender, highlighting some of the most commonly discussed discussions related to economic, social and political development. As the scope of this query is very large, this review provides an illu ... more

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Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: A Systematic Literature Review

Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Angela Nicholas, Maria Ftanou, Jo Robinson, Nicola Reavley

Health Communication, volume 34, issue 4 (2017), pp. 402-414

"Suicide prevention media campaigns are gaining traction as a means of combatting suicide. The current review set out to synthesize information about the effectiveness of these campaigns. We searched four electronic databases for studies that provided evidence on the effectiveness of media campaigns ... . We focused on studies that described an evaluation of the effectiveness of an entire campaign or a public service announcement explicitly aimed at suicide prevention. We identified 20 studies of varying quality. Studies that looked at whether campaign exposure leads to improved knowledge and awareness of suicide found support for this. Most studies that considered whether campaign materials can achieve improvements in attitudes toward suicide also found this to be the case, although there were some exceptions. Some studies found that media campaigns could boost help-seeking, whereas others suggested that they made no difference or only had an impact when particular sources of help or particular types of help-seeking were considered. Relatively few studies had sufficient statistical power to examine whether media campaigns had an impact on the ultimate behavioral outcome of suicides, but those that did demonstrated significant reductions. Our review indicates that media campaigns should be considered in the suite of interventions that might be used to prevent suicide. Evidence for their effectiveness is still amassing, but there are strong suggestions that they can achieve positive results in terms of certain suicide-related outcomes. Care should be taken to ensure that campaign developers get the messaging of campaigns right, and further work is needed to determine which messages work and which ones do not, and how effective messages should be disseminated. There is an onus on those developing and delivering campaigns to evaluate them carefully and to share the findings with others. There is a need for evaluations that employ rigorous designs assessing the most pertinent outcomes. These evaluations should explore the nature of given campaigns in detail – in particular the messaging contained within them – in order to tease out which messages work well and which do not. They should also take into account the reach of the campaign, in order to determine whether it would be reasonable to expect that they might have their desired effect." (Abstract) more

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Youth and Violent Extremism on Social Media: Mapping the Research

Séraphin Alava, Divina Frau-Meigs, Ghayda Hassan

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 161 pp.

"Based on a bibliometric and scientific study of research conducted in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Arab world, parts of Africa and Asia on the links between the use of social media and the phenomena of radicalization, the Report analyzes more than 550 studies published i ... more

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Media Representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A Meta-Analysis

Saifuddin Ahmed, Jörg Matthes

International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 219-244

"This article reports a meta-analysis of 345 published studies to examine the media’s role in construction of a Muslim and Islamic identity. A quantitative analysis highlights the geographical focus, methods, theories, authorship, media types, and time frames of published studies. A qualitative an ... more

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Children’s Online Activities, Risks and Safety: A Literature Review by the UKCCIS Evidence Group

Sonia Livingstone, Julia Davidson, Joanne Bryce et al.

London: UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS); London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017), 106 pp.

"Age is the key factor that differentiates among children’s online experiences, with gender also significant. One in ten children to one in five young teens say they encountered something worrying or nasty online in the past year. Children’s top worries are pornography and violence; they say the ... more

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Current and Future Studies on Participatory Communication in Thailand

Roongkan Musakophas, Weerapong Polnigongit

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, volume 38 (2017), pp. 68-73

"This study used qualitative research involving a documentary analysis of the existing research in Thailand. In all, 60 research studies between 1993 and 2012 [...] were reviewed and analyzed for participatory communication usage and media types. These studies were classified by the purpose of parti ... more

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Media Assistance: Review of the Recent Literature and Other Donors’ Approaches
Deep Insights

Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Katie Bartholomew

iMedia Associates; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2017), 82 pp.

"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned iMedia Associates (iMedia) to conduct a Capitalisation Exercise (CapEx) of its media assistance, with the primary objective of examining its current programmes and bringing out lessons learned. As the second output of this CapE ... more

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Young Adolescents and Digital Media: Uses, Risks and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Rapid Evidence Review
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Sonia Livingstone, Anulekha Nandi, Shakuntala Banaji, Mariya Stoilova

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE); Department for International Development (DFID) (2017), 54 pp.

"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 ... more

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Entertainment-Education and Health and Risk Messaging
Deep Insights

Suruchi Sood, Amy Henderson Riley, Kristine Cecile Alarcon

In: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Communication

Oxford University Press (2017), 42 pp.

"Entertainment-education (EE) began as a communication approach that uses both entertainment and education to engender individual and social change, but is emerging as a distinct theoretical, practice, and evidence-based communication subdiscipline. EE has roots in oral and performing arts tradition ... s spanning thousands of years, such as morality tales, religious storytelling, and the spoken word. Modern-day EE, meanwhile, is produced in both fiction and nonfiction designs that include many formats: local street theater, music, puppetry, games, radio, television, and social media. A classic successful example of EE is the children’s television program Sesame Street, which is broadcast in over 120 countries. EE, however, is a strategy that has been successfully planned, implemented, and evaluated in countries around the world for children and adults alike. EE scholarship has traditionally focused on asking, “Does it work?” but more recent theorizing and research is moving toward understanding how EE works, drawing from multidisciplinary theories. From a research standpoint, such scholarship has increasingly showcased a wide range of methodologies. The result of these transformations is that EE is becoming an area of study, or subdiscipline, backed by an entire body of theory, practice, and evidence. The theoretical underpinnings, practice components, and evidence base from EE may be surveyed via the peer- reviewed literature published over the past 10 years. However, extensive work in social change from EE projects around the world has not all made it into the published literature. EE historically began as a communication approach, one tool in the communication toolbox. Over time, the nascent approach became its own full-fledged strategy focused on individual change. Backed by emerging technologies, innovative examples from around the globe, and new variations in implementation, it becomes clear that the field of EE is emerging into a discrete theoretical, practice, and evidence-based subdiscipline within communication that increasingly recognizes the inherent role of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and policies on improving the conditions needed for lasting social change." (Summary) more

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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2016

Hans M. Zell

Zell Publishing Consultants (2017), 74 pp.

"This is the second in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and book development in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2 ... more

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Media Effects on Attitudes Toward Migration and Mobility in the EU: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Christine E. Meltzer, Christian Schemer et al.

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Communication (2017), 25 pp.

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Open Data, Transparency and Accountability: Topic Guide

Liz Carolan

Birmingham: GSDRC, University of Birmingham (2016), 32 pp.

"Open data involves the release of data so that anyone can access, use and share it. The Open Data Charter (2015) describes six principles that aim to make data easier to find, use and combine: open by default; timely and comprehensive; accessible and usable; comparable and interoperable; for improv ... more

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Social Media and Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review

Jo Robinson, Georgina Cox, Eleanor Bailey, Sarah Hetrick, Maria Rodrigues, Steve Fisher, Helen Herrman

Early Intervention in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 2 (2016), pp. 103-121

"Social media platforms are commonly used for the expression of suicidal thoughts and feelings, particularly by young people. Despite this, little is known about the ways in which social media can be used for suicide prevention. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review to identify cu ... more

Media Assistance: Review of the Recent Literature and Other Donors’ Approaches Deep Insights

Young Adolescents and Digital Media: Uses, Risks and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Rapid Evidence Review Deep Insights

Entertainment-Education and Health and Risk Messaging Deep Insights

Media Assistance: Review of the Recent Literature and Other Donors’ Approaches
Deep Insights

Young Adolescents and Digital Media: Uses, Risks and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Rapid Evidence Review
Deep Insights

Entertainment-Education and Health and Risk Messaging
Deep Insights