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Syrian Independent Exile Media
Deep Insights
International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 64 pp.
"The Syrian independent exile media as a sector is at the core of this study. To understand the unique nature of this sector, the study contextualises the issues pertaining to the Syrian independent exile media in the wider framework of exile media globally, and donors’ approaches to media develop
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Media Development and Sustainability in West Africa: A Study on Media Audience Mapping and Targeting Techniques, Capacity Building Models & Ownership Patterns in West Africa
Deep Insights
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) (2020), ii, 70 pp.
"Media Audience Mapping & Targeting Techniques in West Africa: 1. Audience measurement and ratings culture: The culture of audience measurement and ratings is still very rudimentary in much of West Africa. Within the current media milieu, where new technologies are yielding new forms of content and
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The Wisdom of the Crowd: Promoting Media Development Through Deliberative Initiatives
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.
"An innovative new set of citizen engagement practices—collectively known as deliberative democracy—offers important lessons that, when applied to the media development efforts, can help improve media assistance efforts and strengthen independent media environments around the world [...] Through
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Communicating Science: A Global Perspective
Deep Insights
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) Press (2020), xi, 982 pp.
"This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did
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BMZ Toolkit: Digitale Bildung
Deep Insights
Key Guides
Bonn; Berlin: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2020), 168 pp.
Keeping it Real: An Exploratory Study of How 13-14-Year-Olds Critically Engage with Online Content
Deep Insights
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 43 pp.
"We recruited participants aged 13-14 in three countries: Mexico, South Africa and the Netherlands. Through a questionnaire, an observation exercise and interviews, we gathered information in order to identify trends [...] We constructed a number of global personas that cut across the groups. Safety
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Redes sociales y ciudadanía: Hacia un mundo ciberconectado y empoderado
Deep Insights
Huelva: Grupo Comunicar Ediciones; Alfamed (2020), 847 pp.
"Esta es una obra miscelánea que se adentra, desde múltiples perspectivas, en las interacciones entre educación y comunicación por medio de la influencia global de las redes sociales. En un contexto hiperconectado, pero no necesariamente ‘empoderado,’ resulta esencial la formación en compet
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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2020), xxx, 358 pp.
"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi
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RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints
Key Guides
Deep Insights
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), xliv, 524 pp.
"Addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized around the authors’ seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation impl
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The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
Deep Insights
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2020), lxii, 638 pp.
"The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new r
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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
Deep Insights
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.
"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 21 pp.
"Social media’s relationship with violent conflict is complex; there is no simple cause-effect relationship. These ten case studies indicate that there are a variety of factors at play that im-pact how social media affects conflict dynamics. This report documents an array of observable patterns as
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Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and Through the News Media
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2020), 338 pp.
"Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe addresses longstanding questions in the study of gender equality in media content and media organisations across countries and over time. Drawing on data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), European Institute for Gender Equality (EIG
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Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start - and Why They Don't Go Away
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xli, 157 pp.
"A clear-eyed, expert examination of the state of vaccine confidence globally -- and what it means for the future of life on earth. Considers the widening gulf between messages of medical authority and those on everyman platforms of our digital world, especially as it influences individual choice. C
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What Works to Prevent Online and Offline Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse? Review of National Education Strategies in East Asia and the Pacific
Deep Insights
Bangkok: UNICEF (2020), viii, 63 pp.
"The review found that while there is a growing global body of evidence around effective education programming to prevent child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), much of the available evidence is from high income countries (HICs) and largely focuses on programmes which address offline rather tha
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The Debunking Handbook 2020
Deep Insights
Databrary (2020), 19 pp.
"The handbook is a consensus document that was created by an innovative process that involved a series of predefined steps, all of which were followed and documented and are publicly available. The authors were invited based on their scientific status in the field, and they all agreed on all points
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Africa’s Digital Divide and the Promise of E-Learning
Deep Insights
Afrobarometer (2020), 18 pp.
"On average across 34 countries, one in five adults (20%) have access to both a smartphone and a computer, while 43% only have access to a basic cell phone. In 15 out of 34 countries, at least half of adults have access to a smartphone or a computer or both. About three in 10 respondents (31%) use t
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Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 33 pp.
"Three notable trends punctuated an especially dismal year for internet freedom. First, political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to limit access to information. Authorities often blocked independent news sites and arrested individuals on spurious charges of spreading false news. In many plac
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Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics on Africa = Von Stereotypen und Superhelden - Afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika
Deep Insights
Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library; Brandes & Apsel, 2nd. ed. (2020), 156 pp.
"Die Herausgeber des Buches stellen ein vielfältges Spektrum afrikanischer Comic-Kunst vor – von Superhelden- und Undergroundcomics bis hin zu solchen mit propagandistischem Inhalt oder Bildungsanspruch. Lehr- und Aufklärungscomics hatten in Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr
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Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Deep Insights
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute (2020), 23 pp.
"Our 2020 report highlights the recent trends of computational propaganda across 81 countries and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources used to manipulate public opinion around the globe. We identify three key trends in this year’s inventory of disinformation activity: 1. Cyber
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