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Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad

Johanna C. Ángel Reyes; Joseba Buj (eds.)

México, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México; Taurus; Fundación Telefónica (2020), 192 pp.

ISBN 978-607-319-006-0

"[Este libro] presenta ocho capítulos que se muestran críticos frente a las posibilidades y promesas de la cultura digital, denunciando que la red ha reproducido las formas de desigualdad del mundo analógico. Los autores proponen una reflexión crítica frente a ciertos discursos que se presentan... more

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Reaching 50 million women with mobile: a practical guide

Dominica Lindsey et al.

London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2020), 41 pp.

"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per... more

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Mobile internet connectivity 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa factsheet

GSMA (2020), 2 pp.

"There are now more than 3.8 billion mobile internet subscribers globally, representing 49% of the world’s population. However, adoption has not been equitable, with mobile internet adoption standing at 26% in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2019. The region accounts for almost half of the global... more

Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering

International journal of market research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

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"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im... more

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Measuring digital development: facts and figures

Geneva: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2020), 17 pp.

ISBN 978-92-61-32511-4

"Facts and Figures 2020 reveals that people in rural areas continue to face greater challenges than people in urban areas in terms of remaining connected during the lockdown, especially in developing economies. Large swathes of the rural landscape are still not covered by mobile broadband networks, ... more

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Free to be online? Girls' and young women's experiences of online harassment

Surrey: Plan International (2020), 66 pp.

"More than half of girls surveyed, from around the world, have been harassed and abused online. One in four girls abused online feels physically unsafe as a result. Online abuse is silencing girls' voices. Girls are harassed just for being girls and it gets worse if they speak up about issues they c... more

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Fighting violence against women online: a comparative analysis of legal frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

Chioma Nwaodike; Nerissa Naidoo

Internews; Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.

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"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge... more

Meaningful connectivity: a new standard to raise the bar for internet access

Dhanaraj Thakur; Teddy Woodhouse et al.

Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2020), 18 pp.

"The meaningful connectivity standard is a tool to raise the bar for internet access and set more ambitious policy goals for digital development. It sets minimum thresholds across the four dimensions of internet access that matter most to users. These are: regular internet use - minimum threshold: d... more

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Rádio: credibilidade, resultado e união nacional

São Paulo: Associacão Brasileira de Emissoras de Rádio e Televisão (ABERT) (2019), 25 pp.

"Nove em cada 10 adultos conectados escutam rádio off-line. O rádio é o meio líder em confiança no Brasil. 64% percebem que a maioria das notícias consumidas no rádio é verdadeira. Mais da metade dos ouvintes brasileiros ligam o rádio porque querem se informar. Quando usado de forma combina... more

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Operational handbook for child online safety centres

Jasmina Ivanovic

Belgrade: Save the Children (2019), 67 pp.

"The Operational Handbook for Contact Centres for online safety of children contains action guidelines as well as knowledge, procedures and rules for successful work through the helpline for providing quality assistance and support to children, youth, families, professionals, teachers and others wor... more

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Creating evidence-based youth mental health policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: a description of the integrated approach to addressing the issue of youth depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher; Kevin Perkins; Heather Gilberds; Michael Udedi; Omary Ubuguyu; Tasiana Njau; Rex Chapota; Mina Hashish

frontiers in psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

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"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ...care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) more

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A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: working towards inclusive research

Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas; Debbie Laliberte Rudman; Jeshuran Gunaseelan; Vinod Joseph Abraham; Debra Cameron; Colleen McGrath; Samuel Prasanna Vinoth Kumar

Methodological innovations, volume , issue September-Dezember (2019), pp. 1-19

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"Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affec... more

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A rights-based framework for minority and indigenous languages in Africa: from endangerment to revitalization

Silvia Quattrini

Minority Rights Group International (2019), 23 pp.

ISBN 978-1-912938-21-6 CC BY-NC-ND

"It is estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, of which approximately half, if not more, will disappear by the end of this century ... Language plays a central role not only for the preservation of identity and culture, but also in matters of non-discriminati... more

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How much does the world trust journalists?

Zaac Ritter

Gallup (2019)

"The degree that the public trusts journalists varies widely across 144 countries and territories included in the 2018 Wellcome Global Monitor study. Worldwide, the percentage who express at least some trust in journalists ranges from a low of 12% in Greece to a high of 93% in Uzbekistan. Median glo... more

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The role of community radios in information dissemination to rural women in South Africa

Madeleine C. Fombad; Glenrose Veli Jiyane

Journal of librarianship and information science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58

"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w... more

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Surprising news: how the media affect - and do not affect - politics

Kenneth Newton

Boulder; London: Rienner (2019), x, 277 pp., 16 tables, bibliogr. p.247-266, index

ISBN 978-1-62637-770-7

"In chapter 2, the book lays down its foundations with a review of a large body of experimental psychology research on how and why individuals can preserve their beliefs, sometimes in the face of all evidence, logic, and argument to the contrary. The second part of the chapter shows that millions of... more

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JIM-Studie 2021: Jugend, Information, Medien. Basisuntersuchung zum Medienumgang 12- bis 19-Jähriger

Stuttgart: Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs) (2019), 71 pp.

"Zunächst zeigt die aktuelle Ausgabe der JIM-Studie, dass auch im Jahr 2021 "klassische Medien" wie Radio oder Fernsehen bei Jugendlichen durchaus eine Rolle spielen. Bei offenen Abfrage nach ihren drei wichtigsten Nachrichtenquellen nennt ein Drittel der 12- bis 19-Jährigen das Fernsehen (32 %) u... more

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Rollenbilder in den sozialen Medien und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gleichberechtigung

Anabela Brandao; Sabine Marxen; Anne Rütten

Hamburg: Plan International Deutschland (2019), 11 pp.

"Die Befragung hat gezeigt, dass das Thema Gleichberechtigung durchaus etwas ist, mit dem sich fast alle Nutzerinnen und Nutzer grundsätzlich beschäftigen. Sie hat auch einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen der Nutzung von Social Media und der persönlichen Einstellung der Userinnen und User hinsicht... more

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JIM-Studie 2019: Jugend, Information, Medien. Basisuntersuchung zum Medienumgang 12- bis 19-Jähriger

Stuttgart: Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs) (2019), 60 pp.

"Das Medienrepertoire von Jugendlichen erweitert sich stetig. Aktuell haben etwa drei von vier Familien ein Abonnement für einen Video-Streaming-Dienst wie beispielsweise Netflix oder Amazon Prime Video abgeschlossen. Auch Musik-Streaming-Dienste sind in zwei von drei Familien vorhanden, etwas selt... more

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Violence against women in elections online: a social media analysis tool

Washington, DC: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); USAID (2019), 72 pp.

"Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their civil and political rights. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new vehicles for violence against women in elections (VAWIE), including violence that takes place on so... more