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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Disaster Risk & Preparedness Communication, Disaster Prevention Communication
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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International Humanitarian Crisis Reporting, Foreign Disaster Reporting
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Radio in Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Media Assistance: Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Information Needs in Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Humanitarian Aid
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Infectious Diseases' Outbreak Communication
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Emergency Health Communication
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Disaster Relief & Humanitarian Aid Reporting
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Early Warning: Disasters
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Media Use: Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Disasters, Disaster Relief, Disaster Prevention
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Crisis Communication
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NGOs & Civil Society Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Foreign Conflict Reporting, International War Reporting
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Developing Countries Reporting & Representation in Foreign / International Media
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Famines: Media Representation & Reporting
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COVID-19 Communication
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Africa: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Risk Communication
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Coordination in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Good Practice Examples
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Influence of Media on Foreign & International Policies
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Resilience
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Community Radios
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Rumours & Rumour Management
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Development Organizations: Communication Strategies & Media Representation
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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Influence of Media on Development Aid
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Social Media
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Artificial Intelligence
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Image Ethics, Ethics in Photojournalism
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Journalism Ethics
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Photojournalism
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Networks & Networking
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Media Use, Media Consumption
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Communication
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Human Rights Protection & Violations: Media Representation & Reporting
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Development Aid Reporting
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Websites
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Trust Building in Health & Emergency Communication
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Gender-Sensitive Journalism
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Food, Food Security, Nutrition
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Vaccination Campaigns & Vaccine Hesitancy
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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United Nations (UN)
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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BBC
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Access to Media & Information
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Open Data
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Mobile Phone Use
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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Nonprofit Public Relations: Experiences
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Community Development
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Armed Conflicts
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Humanitarian Interventions
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Cyberwarfare, Cyber Operations: Attacking Enemy Computers, Software, and Control Systems
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Donor Coordination, Funder Collaboration, Aid Harmonsation
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
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Volunteers & Volunteer Management
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Social Media & Web 2.0 for Development
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Disadvantaged Groups & Communication, Minorities & Media
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication: Disadvantaged Groups, Minorities, Hard-To-Reach Audiences
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Indicators
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Food / Nutrition Communication & Media Representation
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Health Campaigns: Planning & Implementation
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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Foreign News, International News
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Transnational & Comparative Communication Research
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Translations & Translating
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Local Communication & Media
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Media Assistance: Implementing Organizations
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Crowdsourcing
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Ushahidi (Crowdsourcing Mapping Software)
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Information Ecosystems
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Migrants, Refugees, Diasporas & Media
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Migrants & Refugees: Tailor-Made Media Products & Information Services
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Conflict & War Photography
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Local Ownership, Local Stakeholder Participation
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Rohingya
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Radio Broadcasting Equipment & Technologies
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Radio Sets, Radio Receivers
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Al-Jazeera
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Information Gathering
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Advocacy
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Advocacy Journalism
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Migrants & Refugees
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Advocacy & Political Films
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Celebrity Humanitarianism
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Audience Clubs & Listener Groups
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Audience Research Methods
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Audience Research: Concepts & Experiences
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Audience Research: Online Surveys
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Community Media Audiences & Use
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Internet & Social Media Use: Minorities
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Information Needs
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Interactive Radio: Audience Participation, Interaction & Feedback
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Media Diaries
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Mobile Phone Use: Minorities
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Clandestine Radios
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Information Campaigns
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Public Awareness Campaigns
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Solidarity
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Child Protection, Protection of Minors
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Children: Media Representation & Reporting
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Comics, Cartoons, Caricatures
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Political Cartoons & Comics
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Media Literacy: Children
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Christian Communication
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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
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Communication Strategies
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Development Aid Public Relations, Development Public Awareness Raising
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Ethics in Public Relations
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Nonprofit Public Relations & Marketing
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Community Radio Equipment & Infrastructure, Community Radio Digitalization
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Community Reporters, Media Volunteers
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Participatory Communication
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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Storytelling
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Genocides
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Holocaust
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Land Mines
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Conflicts and Media
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Conflict-Sensitive / Peace Communication
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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War Reporting
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
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Ritual Communication & Media Rituals
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Corruption in Development Cooperation
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Development NGOs
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Médecins sans Frontières
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Communicating Development Projects, Media in Development Programmes
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Development Journalism & Media Representation of Development Issues
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Edutainment Campaigns: Planning & Implementation
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Radio for Development
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Data
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Labour, Digital Work
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Electronic Newsletters
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet Shutdowns
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Chatbots
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Bots
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Instagram
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AI in Development Assistance
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ICT Development Assistance
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ICT Regulation
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Health Communication: Disadvantaged Groups, Minorities, Hard-to-Reach Audiences
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Minorities & Disadavantaged Groups: Oppression
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Racism in Communication & Media
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Data Bases, Digital Libraries, Open Access Repositories
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Mobile Money Cash Transfer Programmes
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Energy Supply, Electricity
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Solar Energy, Renewable Energy
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Educational Broadcasting
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Environmental Communication
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Environmental Journalism
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Water Resources Management, Water Access & Supply
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Codes of Journalistic Ethics
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Editorial Guidelines
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Journalism Ethics: Covering Vulnerable Persons
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Social Norms
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Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Tools
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Health Campaigns: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Impact Assessment & Outcome Evaluation
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Participatory, Collaborative & Empowerment Evaluation
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Decolonial & Non-Western Approaches
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Health Communication
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Addiction Reporting, Media Representation & Prevention
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Alcohol Abuse: Prevention & Media Representation
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Cancer Prevention, Cancer Communication
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Child Health, Mother & Child Care Communication
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Health Campaigns: Experiences
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Health Campaigns: Message Design
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Health Communication: Community Involvement
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Health Data
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Health Journalism
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Health Radio Programmes
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Polio Communication
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WASH Communication (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene)
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Image Abroad
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International Radio Broadcasting, Foreign Radio Broadcasting
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International Organizations
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Journalism
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Journalism Education & Training
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Journalistic Style & Language
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Journalists
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News Values, News Selection Criteria
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News Agencies
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Court Reporting & Media Representation of Judicial System
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Witnesses, Witness Testimonies
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Metaphors
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Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Good Practice Examples
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Communication & Information Needs
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Informal Communication Channels, Networks & Structures
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Mindfulness, Mindful Communication
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Radio Landscapes
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Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Television Landscapes
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Criminal Law & Criminal Prosecution
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Design Thinking
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Personnel Recruitment, Staff Recruitment
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Knowledge Sharing & Transfer
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Low-Cost Solutions, Low Budget Calculation
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Quality Management
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Standardisation
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Forced Migration, Forced Displacement
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Migrants
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Dadaab (Refugee Camp, Kenya)
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Music Videos
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People with Disabilities: Tailored ICT & Media Products
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Social Photography
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Failed States
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Personal Safety
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Trade Unions & Labor Movements: Communication Strategies
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Coordination
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Stakeholders, Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Participation
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Radio Stations
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Mayardit FM (Turaley, South Sudan)
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Gatekeeping Function of Media
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Compassion
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Yazidism, Yazidis, Yezidis
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Research in Media & Communication
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Applied Communication Research
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Qualitative Analysis
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Data Collection, Data Collection Methods
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Indicators & Indices
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Human Security
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Disappeared People, Missing People
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Demography & Demographic Development
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Inequalities
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Blockchain Technologies
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Frequency Modulation (FM)
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Satellite Communication & Information Services
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GIS, Geospatial Services
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Software
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Mobile Phone Apps
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SMS
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CNN
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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User-Generated Contents
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Colours
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Infographics & Data Visualization
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Signs, Signals, Semiotics
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A Red Cross Red Crescent Guide to Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA): Improving Communication, Engagement and Accountability in All We Do
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ICRC) (2017), 104 pp.
Media, Politics, Compassion and Citizenship in the Post-Humanitarian Imaginary
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 13-27
"Andersen explores the definition of humanitarian communication, its history, language, visual renderings, and narrative structures. Building on the historical effects of media depictions and their relationship to aid appeals and public response, the chapter engages the concepts of empathy and compa
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 189-199
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa
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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220
"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a
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How Media Portrayals of Suffering Influence Willingness to Help: The Role of Solvability Frames
Journal of Media Psychology, volume 31 (2017), pp. 92-102
"When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by eliciting sympathy, while those that prompt a more rational respon
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Disaster Management in the Philippines: Media, Unions, and Humanitarian Action
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 321-328
"In this essay, a different way to approach reporting on natural disasters has been suggested. It requires news reporters and their editors to recognize that there are progressive unions and allied organizations that exist, and because of their rootedness in their various communities across the coun
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C4D in Emergency Response
UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2017), 4 pp.
Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out
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Humanitarian Response and Media in the Arab Gulf Countries
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 329-340
"Two major media revolutions transformed the humanitarian response to disasters facing the Arab Gulf States, namely the 1991 launch of Pan-Arab satellite TV channels, and the 2010 advent of social media. Drawing on her own professional experience, the author argues that both media revolutions have h
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Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 416-427
"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv
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Media, Gender and the Reporting of Emergencies: A Booklet for Journalists and Professionals Dealing with Flood Reporting
Belgrade: OSCE (2017), 54 pp.
"This booklet first presents as a case study an overview and analysis of the actual reporting during the May 2014 flood in Serbia from the gender perspective. This part contains examples of gender stereotypical portrayal of men and women, but also the lack of visibility of female contribution to the
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Effective Communication During Disasters: Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources
Oakville, Ontario; Waretown, NJ: Apple Academic Press (2017), xxvi, 284 pp.
Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017
Internews (2017), 5 pp.
"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w
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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 400-418
"This article examines how three Chinese and two British newspapers sourced content from social media in their coverage of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the 2013 Ya'an Earthquake, and the 2015 Tianjin Explosion. The media outlets citing of social media content present different patterns in line with
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Security risk management: A basic guide for smaller NGOs
European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2017), 80 pp.
Data collection and social media: Innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid? Event report
Brussels: VOICE (2017), 7 pp.
"On 15 May 2017, as a precursor to the annual General Assembly, VOICE hosted an event entitled “Data collection and social media - innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid?”. The event brought together VOICE members, leading practitioners, and academics. The three panellists were Massimo Mar
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Lost in Translation: The Misinformed Journey of Migrants Across Italy
Internews (2017), 22 pp.
"In April 2017, an Internews team conducted a rapid assessment on information needs among refugees and migrants in Italy, visiting formal reception facilities (hotspot, CAS, CARA) in Lampedusa, Agrigento, Catania, and informal centers in Ventimiglia and Rome [...] Lost in Translation examines the cr
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Information Needs Assessment: Cox’s Bazar - Bangladesh
Arcata, Calif.; London: Internews (2017), 56 pp.
"There is no accessible media in the Rohingya language, leaving the Rohingya population of well over a million, now spread between Myanmar and Bangladesh, reliant on information only available in languages other than their own [...] This assessment, conducted in the Cox’s Bazar region of Banglades
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Front Pages and Frontlines: How the News Cycle Impacted Humanitarian Assistance in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 200-210
"Heather Bourbeau finds that in a crisis, media professionals and humanitarian aid providers negotiate a delicate balance between thorough and consistent coverage, and coverage that sensationalizes a crisis and leads to hysteria, misery, and fatigue. In "F" Bourbeau compares the media coverage of th
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Inventory of Digital Technologies for Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Quick Overview
FHI 360;Rockefeller Foundation (2017), 103 pp.
"This inventory was developed by FHI 360, with grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, to support resilience practitioners and the broader development community to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. It was primarily popu
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