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Unmasking racism: Guidelines for educational materials

Eckhardt Fuchs, Simiao Yu et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 82 pp.

"Since wars begin in the minds of men and women, it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace must be constructed” Countering racism in and through education Racist ideologies and discrimination continue to be a global problem. They are still widespread in our societies and roote ... more

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Chancen und Herausforderungen der redaktionellen Umsetzung von Audience Engagement – eine Fallstudie am Beispiel des Projektes #unserWasser

Bernadette Uth

Publizistik, volume 69 (2024), pp. 39-63

"Redaktionen müssen angesichts einer zunehmend fragmentierten Publikumsbeziehung neue Wege finden, ihre Rezipierenden an sich zu binden. Eine in diesem Kontext oftmals diskutierte Strategie ist die des Audience- Engagements. Im Rahmen einer Fallstudie untersucht dieser Beitrag Chancen und Herausfor ... more

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E-empowerment tips for facilitators: Information and communication technologies for farmer field schools

Rome: FAO (2024), viii, 56 pp.

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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation

Monja Sauvagerd, Maximilian Mayer, Monika Hartmann

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.

"This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector. We examine this phenomenon through the lens of Van Dijck e ... more

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Error 404, farmer not found: Why agricultural information services must consider how smallholders use their phones

Jonathan Steinke et al.

Alliance of Bioversity International;International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT);CGIAR (2024), 7 pp.

"Numerous barriers hinder mobile information services in delivering information effectively to smallholder farmers. Many of these barriers can be explained by farmers’ habits in using their phones. Therefore, carefully considering how exactly farmers use their phones in specific local context is c ... more

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ADE for Games: Approaches to Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Games Research and Creation

Daniel Harley, Gerald Voorhees (eds.)

Pittsburgh: Play Story Press (2024), viii, 241 pp.

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Manual: Forum Theatre in Peacebuilding. With Experiences from Jordan

Lisenka Sedlacek, Anne Dirnstorfer

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2024), 62 pp.

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A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe

Ziyi Wang

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.

"In 2011, Alibaba launched the Taobao Villages initiative, which enables rural e-commerce and connects rural sellers with urban buyers, highlighting the role of e-commerce platforms in reducing rural poverty. This approach was later integrated into national rural development policies. As the Digital ... more

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Unlearning Communication for Social Change: A Pedagogical Proposition

Thomas Tufte

Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 335 (2024), 16 pp.

"We have in recent years seen growing calls for pedagogies for social change amongst communication and development scholars, identifying resistances, critiques, and emerging practices in the field. This review article addresses this ‘pedagogical turn’, suggesting that it is in these pedagogies w ... more

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Decolonisation: The media challenge

Henry Roberts

International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) (2024), 28 pp.

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Análisis del Ecosistema de Información sobre fauna silvestre en Puerto Asís, Orito y Puerto Leguízamo en El Putumayo. Amazonía colombiana

Internews;USAID (2024), 45 pp.

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Klimawandel in den Medien: Zwischen konstruktiver Debatte und Polarisierung

Michael Brüggemann, Louisa Pröschel

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2024)

"Der Klimawandel ist eine besondere Herausforderung für den Journalismus. Welche Hindernisse gibt es in der Klimakommunikation? Und wie können diese überwunden werden?" (Einführung)

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Wandel der Einstellungen und Kommunikation zu Klimawandel und Klimapolitik von 2015 bis 2023: Rückschlag für den Klimaschutz

Anne Reif, Lars Guenther, Robin Tschötschel, Michael Brüggemann

Media Perspektiven, issue 15 (2024), 12 pp.

"Eine breite Mehrheit unterstützt Klimaschutz, aber erstmals sinkt die Unterstützung für klimapolitische Maßnahmen, während die Anzahl der Menschen steigt, die die Existenz des anthropogenen Klimawandels bezweifeln. Das Vertrauen in die Klimawissenschaft ist nach wie vor hoch, ging 2023 aber se ... more

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The Power of Trust: Countering Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru

María Fernández García

Internews (2024), 19 pp.

"Internews designed “The Power of Trust” to strengthen intercultural health networks and provide information to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines. Over 11 months, Internews and local partners continuously listened to the information needs of the communities. In response, we developed forums i ... more

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An analysis of the effectiveness of civic education radio programmes among youths in Freetwon, Sierra Leone

John Peter Bebeley

Port Harcourt: Catholic Institute of West Africa, Master Thesis (2024), x, 141 pp.

"This study investigated the effectiveness of civic education radio programmes on the behaviour of the youth in Freetown, Sierra Leone and how assessing and evaluating them could restructure the approach in order to yield the desired goals of supplementing the conventional school systems. “There i ... more

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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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Un planeta vivo y para vivir: Comunicación con perspectiva ambiental

Tachi Arriola

Radios Libres;Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados;Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (2023), 91 pp.

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How Are Africans Talking About Climate Change and Who is Doing the Talking?

Rebecca Pointer, Samuel Mtsiko

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 247-271

"This study identifies who is talking about climate change in Africa, both in the mainstream media and on Twitter, and analyses the key messages emerging from the different platforms. For the mainstream media, we used Google’s Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) platform to access ... more

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COVID-19 and the Constructions of Africa in African News Media

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Maame Nikabs

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 179-198

"This article examines the constructions of Africa in COVID-19-related stories that were produced by African news media. Dominant scholarship indicates that western media generally reproduce and perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Africa. Given that there is scant literature on how African media cover ... more

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Esperançar com Freire: Reflexões sobre comunicação e mudança social

Ailton Krenak, Ana Cristina Suzina, Anita Gurumurthy et al.

Instituto Ubíqua (2023), 188 pp.