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Broadcasting Live the Visit of Pope Francis to Chile
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 4 (2019), pp. 79-95
"Papal visits to different countries are very important to bring about closeness between the Church and the people. To assure the effectiveness of a visit, it is essential to have a well-planned broadcast of the event. The broadcast will transmit the message to the audience and move it beyond time a
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Digital Economy Report 2019. Value Creation and Capture: Implications for Developing Countries
New York; Geneva: United Nations (2019), 172 pp.
"This first edition of the Digital Economy Report – previously known as the Information Economy Report - examines the scope for value creation and capture in the digital economy by developing countries. It gives special attention to opportunities for these countries to take advantage of the data-d
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Measuring the Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for the Future
Key Guides
Paris: OECD (2019), 260 pp.
"The aim of Measuring the Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for the Future is not to “rank” countries or develop composite indicators. Instead, its objective is to provide policy makers and analysts with key indicators for each of the dimensions of the Going Digital integrated policy framework b
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part III: How to Guide
Key Guides
Internews (2019), 61 pp.
"You will find information and advice on everything from how to source rumours and factcheck information, to how to share actionable and practical answers to address these rumours. Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology is designed to be flexible and responsive to local context – and you should be
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UNDP’s Engagement with the Media for Governance, Sustainable Development and Peace
Deep Insights
Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2019), 82 pp.
"This report features 13 case studies that together highlight the range and impact of UNDP’s engagement with the media for the purpose of achieving development outcomes. These examples vary widely in scope and aim: from an election media monitoring initiative in Georgia to an initiative promoting
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Implementation Report on IPDC Projects
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 297 pp.
"The report is split into three chapters: chapter one looks at over one hundred different campaigns, highlighting effective and successful campaigns, and the evaluations of them where possible. Those that are not evaluated can be used as inspiration. The categorisation of the different campaigns was
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Digital 2019: Essential Insights Into How People Around the World Use the Internet, Mobile Devices, Social Media, and E-Commerce
We Are Social; Hootsuite (2019), 221 slides
"The big story in this year’s data is the accelerating growth in internet users. More than 360 million people came online for the first time during 2018, at an average rate of more than 1 million new users each day. 57 percent of the world’s population is now connected to the internet, with tren
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International and Comparative Librarianship: Concepts and Methods for Global Studies
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2019), xliv, 905 pp.
"Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conc
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Rethinking Pedagogy: Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology in Achieving Quality Education
Deep Insights
New Delhi: UNESCO; Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) (2019), xiii, 151 pp.
"Based on the literature review, mapping of digital education resources in circulation, and examples of implementation of digital education initiatives from around the world, this report aims to provide insights that would help lead to the wise, innovative and ethical use of digital technology in ed
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"The degree that the public trusts journalists varies widely across 144 countries and territories included in the 2018 Wellcome Global Monitor study. Worldwide, the percentage who express at least some trust in journalists ranges from a low of 12% in Greece to a high of 93% in Uzbekistan. Median glo
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Intensified Attacks, New Defences: Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 70 pp.
"The period between 2014 through the end of 2018 has seen 495 journalists killed, according to UNESCO data, which represents an 18% increase in the number of killings as compared to the preceding 5-year period (2009-2013). Based on the number of killings, the most dangerous regions for journalists a
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Access to Information: A New Promise for Sustainable Development
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 54 pp.
"The central aim of this study is to unpack the major trends in the field of access to information laws and their implementation. In order to understand the trends, the report examines the activities of trendsetters. It focuses on awareness-raising by UNESCO, Member State recommendations in the Univ
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The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
Deep Insights
Capetown; Ottawa: African Minds; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), xiii, 574 pp.
"A decade ago, open data was more or less just an idea, emerging as a rough point of consensus for action among pro-democracy practitioners, internet entrepreneurs, open source advocates, civic technology developers, and open knowledge campaigners. Calls for “open data now” offered a powerful cr
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Patriotic Trolling: A Survey of State-Sponsored Trolling Worldwide
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 501-529
"In this chapter we begin by surveying the digital political landscape, which has provided a fertile breeding ground for trolling as a state tool for suppression of dissenting ideas. We observe the tactical move by states from an ideology of information scarcity to one of information abundance, whic
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The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 226 pp.
"Though news fixers are vital to the practice of international reporting-helping journalists to understand foreign languages, set up compelling interviews, and navigate unfamiliar terrain-their role is rarely made transparent to news audiences. Without news fixers, journalists would struggle to cove
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Propaganda & Persuasion
Deep Insights
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 7th ed. (2019), xv, 400 pp.
"Reflecting the remarkable changes in the world of propaganda due to the increasing use of social media, this updated Seventh Edition provides a systematic introduction to the increasingly complex world of propaganda. Viewing propaganda as a form of communication, the authors help you understand inf
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Study
Deep Insights
Internews (2019), 56 pp.
"Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology consists of four key functions: 1. A mechanism to determine and document which rumours are circulating; 2. An effective strategy to fact-check information and rumours; 3. A variety of accessible and inclusive mechanisms to share accurate responses to rumours; 4
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Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral
Freedom House (2019), 30 pp.
"According to Freedom House’s Freedom in the World data, media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike. The trend is most acute in Europe, previously a bastion of well-establishe
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