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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...
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...
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...
Strengthening communication, community engagement and accountability capacity in Papua New Guinea. Training for managers and programme leads, October 2022: learning outcomes
London:
CDAC Network
(2022), 16 pp.
"This report provides a summary overview of the key learning outcomes from a training workshop on communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on 10-13 October 2022. The training was a means to bring together various stakeholders with an intere...
Common advocacy statements: the CDAC network 2022
London:
CDAC Network
(2022), 5 pp.
"CDAC's core vision focuses on ensuring people and communities are central to identifying solutions to the problems they face in a crisis. The 2022-2027 vision is: 'that communities will have the information and resources they need to determine their own solutions and be central stakeholders in huma...
Paulo Freire, 100 years
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
Other Editions: also published in Portuguese
"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa...
La radio y la televisión en "Aprendo en casa": hallazgos por codificación abierta
Contratexto
"Esta investigación versa sobre lo que significó la estrategia “Aprendo en casa” en el Perú, en el año 2020, desde dos de sus recursos principales: la radio y la televisión. El objetivo fue analizar comunicacionalmente y evaluar los programas de ambos medios. Se discutió sobre treinta y do...
Multidimensional model for change: a comprehensive C4D-based framework for sustainable development
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 213-232
"This chapter presents the Multidimensional Model for Change (MMC), an innovative model aimed at improving people’s life; it includes the elements of the Communication-Based Assessment (CBA) and Communication Needs Assessment (CNA) frameworks. It is based on a mix of theories of change management ...
Myths and misconceptions on Covid-19: ‘Congo Check’ and ‘Talato’ verification experiences
frontiers in communication, volume 6, issue 627214 (2021), 21 pp.
"Myths are a way of making sense of reality and in times of crisis, lack of information truthfulness can open the gateways for uncertainties and disorientation. A more culture-centered approach to social media may provide an opportunity to halt misconceptions in these contexts serving as a correctiv...
COVID-19 guidance on remote GBV services focusing on phone-based case management and hotlines
GBV AoR Helpdesk, UNICEF; Plan International, UNFPA; UNHCR; Trocaire, International Medical Corps; Norwegian Church Aid:
(2021), 71 pp., illustr., figures, bibliogr. p.67-71
"This resource presents options for adapting GBV case management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic so that survivors can continue to access and receive safe and confidential services. It focuses specifically on phone-based case management. In this resource, phone-based case management is defin...
Del mutante a la persona: claves para comunicar sobre discapacidad desde un enfoque de derechos
Santo Domingo:
Fundación Francina
(2021), 43 pp.
"La primera parte invita a reflexionar sobre los criterios de noticiabilidad y el uso de emociones en los contenidos comunicacionales, explora formas discursivas, propone una estructura de construcción de héroes y plantea algunas interrogantes para identificar estereotipos y falsos paradigmas en l...
Unlocking the power of digital technologies to support "learning to earning" for displaced youth
UNICEF
(2021), 45 pp. , bibliogr. p.35-40
ISBN 978-92-806-5272-7
"This report provides an overview of how digital technologies are being used to support youth’s transition from school to work, ‘learning to earning’, in displaced and host communities. Based on a rapid analysis of emerging approaches and lessons in this burgeoning space, the report’s purpos...
The evolution of popular communication in Latin America
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), xv, 234 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-62557-3 (ebk); 978-3-030-62556-6 (print); 978-3-030-62558-0 (print)
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy...
Community radio for social change: restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 190-212
"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the...
Pacific crises: COVID, climate emergency and West Papua
Pacific journalism review, volume 27, issue 44958 (2021), pp. 1-174
Gesellschaftsspiele: politisches Theater heute
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)
(2021) Sonderausg, 164 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-7425-730-3 (pbk)
Other Editions: Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2. Aufl. 2020
"Politisches Theater spiegelt gesellschaftliche Phänomene und diskutiert sie zugleich. Mit den Möglichkeiten der darstellenden, bildenden und aktivistischen Kunst vermittelt es zwischen Partizipation und Problematisierung, Selbstvergewisserung und Abgrenzung. Florian Malzacher, international verne...
Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts
London; New York:
Routledge
(2021), xviii, 180 pp.
ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse...
Radio and the road: infrastructure, mobility, and political change in the beginnings of Radio Rurale de Kayes (1980–early 2000s)
Journal of African history, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 125-149
"Mali’s first non-state radio went on air during the authoritarian rule of Moussa Traoré in 1988, challenging the common narrative that ties political and media liberalization together. Negotiations were conducted by Italian NGOs at a time when such organizations had become key political actors i...
Misconceptions, misinformation and politics of COVID-19 on social media: a multi-level analysis in Ghana
frontiers in communication, volume 6, issue 613794 (2021), 13 pp.
"The study showed a changing pattern in the misconceptions and misinformation about COVID-19. Initially myths were largely on causes and vulnerability. It was widely speculated that black people had some immunity against COVID-19. Also, the condition was perceived to cause severe disease among the e...
The role of religious actors in the COVID-19 pandemic: a theory-based empirical analysis with policy recommendations for action
Stuttgart:
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Religion und Politik Universität Münster
(2021), 144 pp., bibliogr. p.125-140
ISBN 978-3-948205-42-3
CC BY-NC-ND
"The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. On the other hand, there is far less public discussion on the key role played by religious communities as civil...
