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Conflict-Sensitive Radio Journalism, Radio in Conflict Prevention & Transformation
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Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Political Resistance
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Storytelling
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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Human Rights Protection & Violations: Media Representation & Reporting
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Democracy Assistance
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Good Governance
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Instagram
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Artificial Intelligence
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Good Practice Examples
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Indigenous Radio Broadcasting
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Transnational / International Civil Society Communication Networks & Strategies
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Journalism
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Local Governance & Accountability: Role of Media
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Media Assistance: Citizen Participation & Civil Society
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Media Assistance: Radio
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Photography
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Citizenship
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Political Participation
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Media Effects
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Networks & Networking
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Participation
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Social Justice
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Visual Communication
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Lobbying
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Agricultural Radio Programmes
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Environmental & Land Conflicts
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Land Property, Land Grabbing, Land Reforms
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Media Use, Media Consumption
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Campaigning
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Campaign Strategies
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Public Awareness Campaigns
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Political Cartoons & Comics
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Exile Journalism, Exile Media
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Government Communication Strategies
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Alternative Press
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Community Reporters, Media Volunteers
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Graffiti, Wall Paintings, Street Art
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Boko Haram
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Alternative Cultures, Protest Cultures
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Cultural Resistance
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Fans, Fandom, Fan Cultures
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Rural Communication for Development
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Data
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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TikTok
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WhatsApp
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ICTs and Development
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Ethnic Media, Minority Media
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups: Reporting & Media Representation
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Audio Archives, Visual Archives, Media Archives
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Documenting Human Rights Violations
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Educational Games, Serious Games
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Training
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Gaming, Video Games
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Wastes & Recycling
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender Relations
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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Civic Journalism, Public Journalism
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Collaborative Journalism, Journalism Cooperation
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Radio Journalism
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Drug Trafficking Reporting & Media Representation
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Sexual Abuse Reporting, Sexual Violence Reporting
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Local Press
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Media Assistance: Elections
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BBC Media Action
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Media & Information Literacy
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Constitutions
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Human Rights Protection
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Human Rights Violations
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Escuela Audiovisual Infantil (Belén de los Andaquíes, Caquetá, Colombia)
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Social Photography
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Democratization
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Police
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Agenda Setting
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Framing
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Public Opinion
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Participatory Action Research
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Society
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Theories of Change
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
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Urban Areas
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Youth and Media
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Youth & Digital Media
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Youth Media
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Access to Media & Information
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Access to Information Laws, Right to Information Regulation
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Information Selection
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Advocacy Journalism
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Children
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Chronically ill People
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Ethnic Minorities
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Indigenous People
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Empowerment
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People with Disabilities: Advocacy & Empowerment
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Transnational Advocacy Campaigns, International Advocacy Campaigns
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Peasants / Farmers & Communication
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Geography
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Maps
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Elderly People: Internet & Social Media Use
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Internet & Social Media Use: Minorities
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
1
Media Use: Foreign / International Media
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Mobile Phone Use: Minorities
1
Media Use: Youth
1
News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Opinion Polls, Public Opinion Research
1
Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Samizdat
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Book Publishing
1
Cartonera Books
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Small-Scale & Self-Publishing
1
Digital Media Campaigns
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Political Campaigns
1
Catholic Radios
1
Radio Enmanuel (Huaycán, Lima, Peru)
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Radio Fe y Alegría (Venezuela)
1
Radio Quillabamba (Quillabamba, Peru)
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Radio San Gabriel (El Alto, Bolivia)
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Radio Sutatenza (ACPO) (Colombia)
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Children's Media
1
Children's Radio Programmes
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Children's Rights
1
Comics, Cartoons, Caricatures
1
Digital Literacy: Children
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Aesthetics in Film & Visual Communication
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Film & Gender
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Film Distribution
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Educational Films & Videos
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Indigenous Films, Indigenous Videos
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Science Fiction Films
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Film Editing
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Films
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Latin American Cinema
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Intellectual Property
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Copyright Law
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Open Licensing, Creative Commons, Public Domain
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Plagiarism
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Press Freedom & Communication Rights Violations
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Killings of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Community Communication
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Community Informatics
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Street Papers
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Community Radio Concepts & Principles
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Community Radio & Gender
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Community Radio Training Methods & Training of Trainers
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Conflicts, Conflict Prevention & Management, Mediation, Peacebuilding
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation: Role of Media
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Transitional Justice Reporting
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
1
Content Analysis (Research Method)
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Media Criticism
1
Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
1
Artists
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Dance, Folk Dances
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Theatre
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Arts & Media
1
Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Collective Memory: Violent Conflicts & Wars
1
Cultural Pluralism
1
Memes
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Media Cultures
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Subcultures
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Development Assistance
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Development Assistance: Accountability & Transparency
1
Development Assistance: Beneficiaries, Target Groups, Beneficiary Inclusion & Participation
1
Development Education
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Digitalization in NGOs, Civil Society & Development Organizations
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World Bank
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Development Communication Projects: Case Studies
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Development Strategies
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Funding Criteria & Priorities
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Regional Cooperation, South-South Collaboration
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Development Communication Tools & Methods
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Entertainment Education, Edutainment
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Posters for Development & Education
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Radio for Development
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Criticism
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Religious Digital & Social Media Practices
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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Digital Research Methods
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Online Communication
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WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
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Chatbots
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Political Websites & Online Communities
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Online News
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Video Blogs, Vlogs
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
1
Religion in Social Media
1
Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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Hashtags
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YouTube
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Social Media & Web 2.0 for Development
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Wikis
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NGO Websites
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Digital Economies, Digital Societies
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AI & Democracy / Democratization
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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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ICT Effects & Impact
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ICT Enterprises
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Virtual Reality
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Disadvantaged Groups & Communication, Minorities & Media
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Afro-Latin Americans, Afroamerican Population
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Communication Among Disadvantaged Persons
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Homeless People
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Prisoners & Communication / Media
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Racism in Communication & Media
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Archives
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Digital & Online Archives
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Media Commercialisation
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Media Ownership
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Nonprofit Journalism, Nonprofit Media
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Political Economy of Media
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Alternative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Social Economy Businesses, Fair Trade
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Production
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Educación Popular
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Educational Radios
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Educational Communication
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Media Didactics, Media Use in Education
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Radio Entertainment
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Environmental Journalism
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Extractive Industries & Mining Reporting
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Ethics in Nonprofit & Community Journalism
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Impact Assessment & Outcome Evaluation
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Success Factors
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Gender and Radio
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Health Communication
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COVID-19 Communication
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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Indigenous Movements, Indigenous Organizations
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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International Communication
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World Information and Communication Order
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Youth Journalists, Youth Correspondents, Youth Media Volunteers
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Local Journalism
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Civil Society: Reporting & Media Representation
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Political Reporting
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Constitutions & Constitutional Reforms: Political Discourse & Media Representation
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Islam: Media Representation & Reporting
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Television Journalism
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Media & Communication General
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Crowdsourcing
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Ushahidi (Crowdsourcing Mapping Software)
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Information Ecosystems
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Organizational Communication, Institutional Communication
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Digital Literacy: Youth
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Well-Being Online
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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Blind & Visually Impaired People
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Caruana Galizia, Daphne (1964-2017)
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Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
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Video Production Skills
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Coalition Building
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Communication publique, espace et citoyennete
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 290 pp.
Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy: Their Strategies and Stories
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxviii, 238 pp.
"Policy advocacy is an increasingly important function of many nonprofit organizations, as they seek broad social changes in their concerning issues. Their advocacy practices, however, have often been guided by their own past experiences, anecdotes from peer networks, and consultant advice. Most of
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Activismo mediático híbrido: Ecologías, imaginarios, algoritmos
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2020), 245 pp.
"[Esta publicación] investiga y reflexiona sobre las complejidades, ambigüedades y vacíos del activismo digital. Partiendo de un trabajo de campo sobre movimientos sociales, colectivos y partidos políticos en España, Italia y Méijco, Emiliano Treré desentraña la naturaleza híbrida del activ
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#WhatsHappeningInThailand: The Power Dynamics of Thailand’s Digital Activism
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 23 pp.
"In this report, we’ve analysed samples of Twitter data relating to the online manifestation of contemporary political protests in Thailand. We’ve sought to explore key ways in which the online manifestation of the protests differs from its offline counterpart. That includes how power dynamics o
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2020), xvi, 419 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communicat
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Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 358 pp.
"This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digita
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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 47-54
"This study analyses the content of the messages on the Facebook Page 'Support for Farmers' from the premise of Habermas's 'Public Sphere'. The results show that the discussions in support of the farmers' protest on Facebook galvanized the public interest on the problematic issues faced by farmers a
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Comunicação política digital
Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 5 pp.
The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.
"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time,
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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints
Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.
"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children.
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#UnderPressure: Digital Civil Society
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 56 pp.
"The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) supports civil society actors worldwide in their advocacy for democracy and peace, encourages dialogue within civil society and contributes to the protection of minorities and persons at risk. With the fellowships of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa
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Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
Africa Spectrum, volume 55, issue 2 (2020), pp. 148-169
"The article seeks to discuss varied forms of citizen engagement in the era of Internet viral cultures, ranging from (1) the use of social media for online protest, characterised by political contestation and fleeting outbursts of anger and backlash in the Twittersphere, to (2) the appropriation of
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Social Media and Thailand's Struggle Over Public Space
Singapore: ISEAS (2020), 10 pp.
"Political divisions, the economic downturn after 2006, and technological disruptions have enabled Thai authorities to limit public space for political discussion and expression. People in Thailand have turned to social media instead. At present, the hashtag (#) is a growing tool for all kinds of po
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest
Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.
"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how K
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The Lebanese Uprising in the Digital Age
CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 85-98
"On October 17, 2019, following the announcement of a tax to be placed on calls made via the mobile communication application WhatsApp, thousands of Lebanese citizens took to the streets to protest against this arbitrary decision. The protest quickly morphed into a country-wide uprising in which cit
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Contagious Protests
World Bank Group (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis finds strong evidence of “contagious protests,” with a catalyzing role of social media.
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age: Online and Offline Social Networks After the Arab Spring
London et al.: Tauris (2020), xxiii, 198 pp.
"Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning po
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Ciberactivismo, ejercicio de la ciudadanía y participación política en Internet
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 198 pp.
"[...] El ciberactivismo emerge como una nueva forma de participación y movilización política, que pretende dinamitar los marcos de acción colectiva promoviendo la actuación de los ciudadanos dentro del espacio público. Dentro de la perspectiva de nuestra investigación, el ciberactivismo en C
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