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Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior

Sijia Liu, Liang Chen

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467

"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment ... more

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News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media

Mostafa Shehata, Noha Adel

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246

"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr ... more

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Long Live Chairman Mao: Propaganda About Mao Zedong in Chinese Primary School Textbooks (1984–1999)

Shenglan Zhou

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3647-3667

"This article examines the portrayal of Mao Zedong in Chinese literacy textbooks published within the context of the Patriotic Education Campaign during the 1980s and 1990s. Employing critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that Mao is depicted as an authoritative, charismatic, and industrio ... more

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Laptops in the Long-Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru

Santiago Cueto, Diether W. Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Ofer Malamud, Francisco Pardo

Inter-American Development Bank (2024), 38 pp.

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Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective

ITU-WMO-UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management

Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.

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Alerta amazónica: Periodismo ambiental para el cuidado del gran bioma

Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte (2024), 48 pp.

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Polio digital message guide: A practical resource for responding to trending narratives, crafting effective polio messaging and encouraging vaccine uptake

Digital Community Engagement (DCE) (2024), 47 pp.

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Climate disinformation: Consequences and solutions. Unpacking the effects of disinformation on climate change and environmental harms

Claire Dehosse, Tina Power, Tharin Pillay

Media Monitoring Africa (2024), 44 pp.

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Change Inside and Out: An Evaluator’s Guide to Outcome Harvesting + Attitude Change

Michelle Garred, Min Ma

Ripple Peace Research & Consulting, revised ed. (2024), 63 pp.

"This Guide updates the learning on Outcome Harvesting + Attitude Change (OH+AC), an adapted version of Outcome Harvesting that adds the consideration of attitudes while upholding Outcome Harvesting’s primary concepts and core principles. Whereas Outcome Harvesting centers behavior change among so ... more

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Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh

Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Atonu Rabbani, Animesh Talukder, Rubaiya Riya Siddiqua, Sanjana Nujhat, Mushfiqur Rahman, Malabika Sarker

Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 16, issue 2 (2024), pp. 159-186

"Edutainment intervention is a popular and inexpensive behavioural change communication toolkit to raise positive social norms through broadcast media. We evaluated a 26-episode nationally broadcasted television series targeted to improve attitudes towards preventing child marriage in Bangladesh. We ... more

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Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response. Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

London: CDAC Network (2024), 4 pp.

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Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations

Vikas Kumar, Mohit Rewari (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xviii, 191 pp.

"This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national de ... more

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Environmental Activism and Global Media: Perspective from the Past, Present and Future

Pardeep Singh, Bendangwapang Ao, Dr Medhavi (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2024), x, 343 pp.

"This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism and its intersection with global media. It provides a comprehensive view of the pivotal role played by the media in shaping awareness concerning environmental challenges and catalyzing a ... more

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Mobile Net Zero 2024: State of the Industry on Climate Action

London: GSMA (2024), 50 pp.

"Climate action continues to be a key priority for the mobile industry. In 2019, the mobile industry set a goal to reach net zero by 2050, becoming one of the first sectors in the world to set such an ambitious target. This report is the fourth annual assessment of the industry’s progress towards ... more

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Ética de la comunicación ambiental y del cambio climático

María Teresa Mercado, María Gemma Teso (eds.)

Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 448 pp.

"Desde una aproximación ética, reconocidos profesionales con amplia experiencia en los medios y en organismos, como la Oficina Española de Cambio Climático o la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, profesores doctores de catorce universidades, entre ellos una decena de investigadores del Observator ... more

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Kenya Media Landscape Guide

London: CDAC Network;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 31 pp.

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Technology enabled learning in Kenya: Kwa Ground insights on building resilient distance learning ecosystems

Jennifer Otieno, Rebecca Ward

Washington, DC: IREX (2024), 31 pp.

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Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective

Ran Wei et al.

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 236 pp.

"This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation ... more

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Charity representations of distant others: An analysis of charity advertising supporting international causes in UK national newspapers

David Girling, Deborah Adesina

University of East Anglia, School of Global Development (2024), 32 pp.

"We are pleased that this project has provided evidence indicating an improvement in the representation of distant others in INGO adverts. On the whole, there is a marked difference in the organisation of cast and characters present in charity’s communications imagery and pitiful images are nearly ... more

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Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions

Dolores Albarracin, Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Javier A. Granados Samayoa

Nature Reviews Psychology, volume 3 (2024), pp. 377-392

"Unprecedented social, environmental, political and economic challenges — such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence — require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. In this Review, we synthesize multidiscip ... more