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Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone
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London; New York:
Routledge
(2023), xvi, 127 pp., figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-1-032-41207-8 (pbk); 978-1-003-35680-6 (ebk)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected ...
Diffusion of development journalism inside Egyptian newsrooms
International journal of press/politics, volume 78, issue 1 (2023), pp. 278-299
"This study examines the boundaries and limitations of the diffusion of “development journalism” among both the editorial body and the journalist body in the Egyptian newsrooms after the 2011 Arab Spring. Newsrooms under study represent different perspectives including state-owned, private-indep...
The media and inequality
Abingdon; New York:
Routledge
(2023), 264 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-367-61175-0 (pbk); 978-1-00-310447-6 (online)
"This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolve...
The state of communication, community engagement and accountability across the Ukraine response. Second edition. 30 September 2022
London:
CDAC Network
(2022) 2nd ed., 22 pp.
"This report is published quarterly and gives an overview of key CCEA barriers and gaps across the Ukraine response, as well as recommendations for practitioners and responders to improve the use of CCEA for those affected by the crisis. Despite the many CCEA-related activities happening on the grou...
Digital public goods platforms for development: the challenge of scaling
The information society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox...
Participatory video & strategic communications for peacebuilding: a guide for facilitators
Build Up
(2022), 77 pp.
"This guide provides advice, exercises and notes for local peacebuilders who wish to facilitate a participatory video (PV) process in order to enhance the resilience and peacebuilding capacities of their communities. [It] provides exercises for the facilitator to guide participants through experient...
Breaking cultures of silence: learnings from a participatory community-centred approach to leveraging and researching documentaries for social change
Journal of alternative and community media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-22
"This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, 'Always in S...
Communication, community engagement and accountability across the Ukraine response: a snapshot
London:
CDAC Network
(2022), 19 pp.
"Key findings and recommendations on the main communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) barriers and gaps:Finding 1: There is strong rhetoric from international agencies to support local/national CCEA and work on more inclusive partnerships – but progress has been slowF...
Let it be as local as possible: dismantling information and communication hierarchies in displacement settings
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2022), 33 pp.
"This paper serves to explore how we can embrace a more expansive and inclusive view of media by drawing on case studies and examples of good practice, particularly with regards to the COVID-19 response, which necessitated major operational changes and reliance on local partners. By collating and sh...
Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit: Medienpraktiken für ein gutes Leben
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2022), xi, 277 pp., bibliogr. p.241-277
ISBN 978-3-658-36166-2 (print); 978-3-658-36167-9 (ebook)
CC BY
Other Editions: Habilitation Universität Bremen, 2020
"Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen Folgen aktueller Digitalisierungsprozesse und zeigt anhand dreier Fallstudien...
WeltRisikoBericht 2022. Fokus: Digitalisierung
Bochum:
Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft; Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV) Ruhr-Universität Bochum
(2022), 75 pp.
ISBN 978-3-946785-13-2
"Wie jedes Jahr wird der WeltRisikoIndex durch ein Fokusthema ergänzt. Dieses Jahr beschäftigen wir uns mit der Digitalisierung. Die Autor:innen analysieren auf der Basis qualitativer Forschung die große Bedeutung digitaler Lösungen für die Katastrophenrisikoreduzierung und die vorausschauende ...
Guía para medios de comunicación para comunicar con perspectiva de género en contextos de emergencia
Mexico City:
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)
(2022), 51 pp.
"Esta guía para medios de comunicación tiene como objetivo ofrecer herramientas y recursos de información para comunicar emergencias y situaciones de esta magnitud con perspectiva de género, de manera incluyente y no sexista, en temas y problemáticas que afectan de manera sustancial y diferenci...
Typhoon Rai response: the role of the mobile industry
GSMA
(2022), 8 pp.
"Typhoon Rai has proven to be one of the most damaging disasters to have hit the Philippines. However, around 400 lives were lost due to Typhoon Rai compared to disasters like Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, when 6,300 people died. The significantly lower number of deaths highlights the country’s experien...
Communicating for social change: a model of communicative power
International communication gazette, volume 84, issue 45145 (2022), pp. 591-612
"There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidence regarding whether interventions work, the second is whether the sub-field is building theory about h...
COVID-19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: media viability, framing and health communication
Bingley:
Emerald Publishing
(2022), xix, 257 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.215-248, index
ISBN 978-1-80382-272-3 (print) / 978-1-80382-271-6 (online)
"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be...
Nachhaltigkeit als Gegenstand und Zielgröße der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung: aktuelle Studien und Befunde
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2022), 249 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-3-8487-8221-5 (pbk); 978-3-7489-2643-6 (online)
"Der Band bietet vielfältige Einblicke in die aktuelle kommunikationswissenschaftliche Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung rund um das Thema Nachhaltigkeit. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich etwa damit, wie die Thematik in den (sozialen) Medien verhandelt wird, wie sich verschiedene Botschafts- und Ko...
A review of food and nutrition communication and promotion in Ghana
African journal of food, agriculture, nutrition and development, volume 22, issue 2 (2022), pp. 19602-19623
"As part of the process to develop food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) for Ghana, this rapid evidence review examined the nature, extent, sources, and medium of food and nutrition information dissemination and promotion in Ghana. PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and Open Access Theses Dissertatio...
Assessment of communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan
CDAC Network; UNICEF
(2022), 22 pp., abbrev. p.4
"The humanitarian Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability (CCEA) coordination structures in Sudan are primarily led by UN agencies with governmental counterparts at the sector level in Khartoum and field sites. These coordination structures have a relatively low level of representatio...
Children and media worldwide in a time of a pandemic
New York et al.:
Peter Lang
(2022), vi, 242 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-1-4331-9484-9 (pdf); 978-1-4331-9483-2 (print)
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ...
