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Digital public goods platforms for development: the challenge of scaling
The information society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox...
COVID-19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: media viability, framing and health communication
Bingley:
Emerald Publishing
(2022), xix, 257 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.215-248, index
ISBN 978-1-80382-272-3 (print) / 978-1-80382-271-6 (online)
"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be...
A review of food and nutrition communication and promotion in Ghana
African journal of food, agriculture, nutrition and development, volume 22, issue 2 (2022), pp. 19602-19623
"As part of the process to develop food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) for Ghana, this rapid evidence review examined the nature, extent, sources, and medium of food and nutrition information dissemination and promotion in Ghana. PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and Open Access Theses Dissertatio...
Children and media worldwide in a time of a pandemic
New York et al.:
Peter Lang
(2022), vi, 242 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-1-4331-9484-9 (pdf); 978-1-4331-9483-2 (print)
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ...
The impact of COVID-19 on communication, community engagement and accountability: perspectives from stakeholders, communicators and audiences
London:
CDAC Network
(2022), 62 pp.
"This study sought to identify changes, if any, to the communication and community engagement landscape as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It did not aim to evaluate CCEA during the pandemic but, rather, aimed to bring together some of the key literature, recommend additional reading and reflect ...
Reclaiming the public sphere in a global health crisis
Javnost: the public, volume 28, issue 2 (2021), pp. 111-235
Building capacity in communication for development and health promotion
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 262-284
"Strengthening capacities in communication for development (C4D) and health communication is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other global health and development goals. This chapter presents case studies of recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations Children´s Fu...
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...
“Fake news”, religion, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 313-321
"Salali and Uysal (2020) found in their study that vaccine acceptance significantly increased when people believe in the natural origin of the virus. Therefore, mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories about how the virus started need to be debunked, especially in countries having high vaccine hes...
Pacific crises: COVID, climate emergency and West Papua
Pacific journalism review, volume 27, issue 44958 (2021), pp. 1-174
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...
Transforming gender norms through communication: Minga Perú's communicative actions in the Amazon
In: Handbook of communication and development
Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2021), pp. 302-321
"We illustrate the principles and processes of gender transformative communication by presenting a case study of a long-running social change initiative spearheaded by Minga Perú, a community-based organization in the Peruvian Amazon. Applying a gender and power lens, we illustrate how communicatio...
Communication infrastructure and community mobilization: the case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 response network for the marginalized in India
Journal of development communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement, ...
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...
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...
Towards media systems framework in Asia Chinese and Korean media on framing the initial COVID-19 pandemic
International communication gazette, volume 83, issue 5 (2021), pp. 183-205
"Due to the relative lack of media comparison studies within Asian contexts, theoretical frameworks based in Western societies have been applied to knowledge production in the global South. Using a ‘most different’ design, this study compares the dimensions of media systems reflected in two Chin...
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...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Ghana, March - June
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 7 pp.
"The media in Ghana have had relatively free space to operate even amidst the COVID-19 restrictions. The traditional legal texts and the new emergency laws adopted by the government to fight the pandemic have not been used to violate press freedom. The media have, therefore, discharged with distinct...
Communiquer sur Ebola: expérience du Sénégal du 23 mars au 1er décembre 2014. Récit et analyse critique des faits
Paris:
L’Harmattan
(2020), 204 pp.
ISBN 978-2-343-21720-8
"Le 23 mars 2014, l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé publie sur son site web l'apparition de la maladie à virus Ébola en Guinée. Du fait de la proximité du Sénégal avec la Guinée, la commission Média et Communication, dispositif multisectoriel et centre nerveux de la communication impulse ...
Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, volume 16, issue 11 (2020), pp. 2586-2593
"Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, ...
