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Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: Kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen

Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn
Peripherie, volume 37, issue 1 (2017), pp. 52-75
"Seit März 2007 organisieren lokale und internationale Aktivist*innen in verschiedenen Teilen Afghanistans beinah täglich Aktivitäten mit den unterschiedlichen Techniken des Theaters der Unterdrückten (TdU) des Brasilianers Augusto Boal (1931-2009) sowie anderen emanzipatorischen Theatermethoden ... more
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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture

Elizabeth Willmott-Harrop
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.
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Local Radio in Afghanistan: A Sustainability Assessment

Nathalie Paarlberg, Kamran Parwana, Eric Davin et al.
Altai Consulting; Internews (2017), 136 pp.
"This study assesses the role and impact of this local radio station network as well as its sustainability prospects, focusing on four pillars of sustainability in particular: Financial sustainability: at a minimum, radio stations need to be able to support their activities, and ideally enjoy some s ... more
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Punto de inflexión: Impacto, amenazas y sustentabilidad. Estudio de emprendedores de medios digitales latinoamericanos
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SembraMedia; Omidyar Network (2017), 68 pp.
"Este estudio es el primer estudio exhaustivo sobre el impacto que tienen emprendedores de medios digitales, los riesgos a los que se enfrentan, y si ha surgido un modelo de negocio viable para el periodismo digital independiente y de calidad. Para llevar a cabo esta investigación, SembraMedia, con ... more
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Media Reporting on Human Trafficking

Washington, DC: United States Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (2017), 1 p.
"Just 15 years ago, human trafficking was an under-reported and often misrepresented issue and some reporting sensationalized the problem or even misinformed the public. In the last few years, a significant shift has occurred i n the media’s reporting of human trafficking, from dramatic exposés t ... more
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Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-Appropriating Social Media Among Alternative Media Projects

Summer Harlow
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xvii, 214 pp.
"This ethnographic study explores how four alternative media projects in El Salvador integrated digital technologies-particularly social media-into their practices, and whether incorporating these technologies affected citizen participation not only in the media production process, but in a broader ... more
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Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice

Brianna L. Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker
Authors Alliance (2017), 99 pp.
"Nonfiction authors often use existing materials in their works: A historian excerpts a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic reproduces a telling detail in a painting; a scientist quotes from a well-known article. Readers of nonfiction works expect new writing to reference and incorpora ... more
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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell

Ben Stringer, David Campbell
Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that ... more
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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

Heather McIntosh
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
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Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach

Kathleen Fearn-Banks
New York; London: Routledge, 5th ed. (2017), xiv, 423 pp.
"Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach presents case studies of organizational, corporate, and individual crises, and analyzes the communication responses to these situations. Demonstrating how professionals prepare for and respond to crises, as well as how they develop communications plans, th ... more
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Háblame de tus fuentes: Aprendizajes de veinte reporteros de investigación iberoamericanos

Luisa García Tellez
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2017), 168 pp.
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Radio Sutatenza: Una revolución cultural en el campo colombiano (1947-1994)

Juan Pablo Angarita Bernal et al.
Bogotá: Banco de la República; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (2017), 176 pp.
"En esta publicación se reproducen algunos ensayos escritos por los curadores e investigadores de la exposición itinerante “Radio Sutatenza: una revolución cultural en el campo colombiano (1947-1994)”, que ha viajado por distintas sucursales de la Red de Bibliotecas del Banco de la República ... more
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Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

London: GSMA (2017), 47 pp.
"This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region. Established in 1996, it now hosts more than 136,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bu ... more
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Community Radio in a Commercial Broadcasting Landscape: Kenya’s Koch FM

Rose N. Kimani
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 195-210
"Koch FM is a community radio station located in Korogocho, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The station aims to provide alternative information, education and entertainment content. Producers at the station and community members who make up the station’s audience have different perceptions of Koch FM’ ... more
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Communicating Climate Change in the Rice Sector

Jaime A. Manalo IV et al.
Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice); Bureau of Agricultural Research (2017), xi, 95 pp.
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A Communication Audit of the Catholic Diocese of Kabgayi in Rwanda

Théoneste Ndahimana
Nairobi: Daystar University, School of Communication, Language and Performing Arts, Master of Arts in Communication Thesis (2017), xiii, 130 pp.
"The purpose of this study was to conduct a communication audit of the Catholic Diocese of Kabgayi with a view to establishing the effectiveness of communication strategies used by Kabgayi Diocese in resource mobilization. The objectives of this study were: firstly, to establish communication strate ... more
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Indian News Media and the Production of News in the Age of Social Discovery

Zeenab Aneez, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 29 pp.
"This report examines the social media strategies of a sample of six leading English-language Indian news organisations, two newspapers (Hindustan Times and The Indian Express), two television stations (NDTV and News18), and two digital-born organisations (Firstpost and The Quint). The context is ex ... more
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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains

Paul Mundy, Benjamin Kwasi Addom, Krishan Bheenick
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 16 pp.
"CTA’s ICT4Ag project (2014–15) enabled seven organisations in Africa and the Caribbean to develop, test and promote information services for smallscale farmers and fishers, traders and lobbying groups. Key recommendations: Understanding users’ needs requires intensive interaction with potenti ... more
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No Country for Human Rights Activists: Assaults on Bloggers and Democracy Campaigners in Vietnam

Human Rights Watch (2017), 65 pp.
"The Vietnamese government has long arrested and prosecuted domestic human rights activists, using rights-violating laws and Communist Party-controlled courts and police. But the recent explosion of internet-driven activism in the country has coincided with the appearance of another frightening inst ... more
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The Dilemma of Building Campus Radio Stations on a Business Model: The Case of ATL FM in Ghana

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 60-78
"The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic discourse in the mainstream media as well as independence from political and ... more