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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.

"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova ... more

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Morocco earthquake: Immediate communication and engagement priorities. Key messages for responders

London: CDAC Network (2023), 6 pp.

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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda

Kathryn L. Hopkins, Chelsey Lepage, Wendy Cook et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60

"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can ... more

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Achieving Active Political Pluralism and Participation Through Development Communication: The Role of Local and Community Radio Media Outlets in Northern Ghana

John Demuyakor

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 252-273

"Development communication and community radio media outlets have been described as the most effective way of ensuring political inclusion and political engagement in emerging democracies such as Ghana. With development communication theory as the theoretical basis, this study is aimed at assessing ... more

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Community Voice and Participation in Climate Change Communication Through Community Radio in Malawi

Chimwemwe Richard Chavinda

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2023), 18 pp.

"This study examines the role of community radio in increasing climate change awareness in Malawi. The article broadly reaffirms the importance of community radio in Africa in democratizing media access, more interestingly by using radio listening clubs in the production process and participation. T ... more

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Diffusion of Development Journalism Inside Egyptian Newsrooms

Rasha Allam, Ahmed El Gody

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 ... more

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Performing Sustainability in West Africa: Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development

Meike Lettau, Christopher Yusufu Mtaku, Eric Debrah Otchere (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge;Earthscan (2023), xvii, 218 pp.

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A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation

Hannah S. Whitehead, Clare E. French, Deborah M. Caldwell, Louise Letley, Sandra Mounier-Jack

Vaccine, volume 41, issue 5 (2023), pp. 1018-1034

"We conducted a systematic review to identify and describe communications-based strategies used to prevent and ameliorate the effect of mis- and disinformation on people’s attitudes and behaviours surrounding vaccination (objective 1) and examined their effectiveness (objective 2) [...] Of 2000 id ... more

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Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.

"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 ... more

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Disasters and Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Expert News Media

A. Mosurska, A. Clark-Ginsberg, S. Sallu, J. D. Ford

Environnment and Planning E: Nature and Space, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 178-201

"[...] in popular imagination and policy Indigenous peoples often appear to be caricatured and misrepresented, for instance through tropes of Indigenous peoples as custodians of the environment or especially vulnerable to environmental change. These framings matter because they can result in disaste ... more

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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
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London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.

"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops ... more

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Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach

Sabine Tan, Marissa K. L. E. (eds)

New York; London: Routledge (2023), xvi, 276 pp.

"Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the pandemic, and how these have impacted our daily lives in terms of the various meanings they express. Examples include how national and i ... more

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The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review

Sihong Zhao, Simeng Hu, Xiaoyu Zhou et al.

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, volume 9, issue e40201 (2023), 23 pp.

"This review aims to synthesize the global evidence on misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines, including its prevalence, features, influencing factors, impacts, and solutions for combating misinformation. We performed a systematic review by searching 5 peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Embase, W ... more

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From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Development Communication to Sustainability Communication

Sigrid Kannengießer

Studies in Communication Sciences, volume 23, issue 1 (2023), pp. 121-135

"At the highest international political level, the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 after having announced (and later not fulfilled) the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. This shift from the MDGs to the SDGs, in which the term development was replac ... more

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Saving Lives through Effective Flood Warning Communications in Nigeria

Bamidele Olajide

Abuja: Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) (2023), 21 pp.

"This report explores the importance of a robust Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) in Nigeria and the need for effective communication to ameliorate the loss and damage caused by flooding. Following Nigeria’s Floods of 2022, which resulted in over 600 lives lost, 3000 injured, 300 thousand hectare ... more

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Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie

Hans Jürgen Wulff, Martha-Lotta Körber, Ludger Kaczmarek

Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.

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Communication for Social Changemaking: A “new Spirit” in Media and Communication for Development and Social Change?

Jessica Noske-Turner

International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2944-2966

"In pockets of media and communication for development and social change (MCDSC) a distinct set of practices around a worldview emphasizing optimism, chic, creativity, boldness, and “changemaking” is emerging. This trend is in stark contrast with the momentum of our current academic debates expl ... more

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Talking about poverty: Lessons learnt

York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF);Rights Evaluation Studio (2023), ii, 98 pp.

"The Talking about Poverty (TaP) project, which ran from 2016 to 2021, aimed to develop a more effective way of communicating about UK poverty through ‘framing’ – an evidence-based communications strategy. For this project, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) worked with the FrameWorks Instit ... ute, which is a not-for-profit communications research organisation based in the United States. In 2021, a sister organisation, FrameWorks UK, was established in the United Kingdom (UK), which focuses on supporting mission-driven organisations to apply strategic communications research in practice. The TaP project set out to understand the public’s attitudes to poverty in the UK and used insight from research with 20,000 people (Volmert et al, 2016) to develop ways to talk about poverty in a more effective way. To challenge the unhelpful narratives identified in the research, the project developed an evidence-based communications strategy (‘poverty framing’) to increase the public’s understanding of UK poverty and provide support for measures to address it. [...] There are some key development areas for future framing projects such as stronger project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, and sustainability planning. However, the TaP project made PWLE who were engaged in the project feel more hopeful about the future and confident that the project would have a positive, accumulative effect on how poverty is being talked about in public discourse, with some indications that the project may have had some influence in the media and the House of Commons. The TaP project created a buzz in the third sector and was credited with helping to build a movement, leading to a more co-ordinated sector. While we identified a need and desire to engage the third sector and PWLE earlier on in the project, the vast majority of third sector partners and allies who were engaged in our evaluation both valued and used the framing in their work, crediting the framing with adding more dignity, positivity and effectiveness to their communications. The TaP project brought hundreds of organisations together for the Keep the Lifeline campaign and provided a robust and evidence-based communications strategy for their internal staff and external allies." (Executive summary, pages 3-6) more

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Indigenous youth, health, wellness, and social media: A scoping review

Catherine Fournier

Institut National de Santé Publique Québec (2023), 55 pp.

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Sonic Engagement: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Community Engaged Audio Practice

Sarah Woodland, Wolfgang Vachon (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2023), xiv, 332 pp.

"This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a ... more

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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
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