"Medien – digitale wie traditionelle – spielen eine zentrale Rolle im Leben der Menschen. Sie informieren über das Geschehen weltweit und bieten zudem diverse Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, beruflich wie privat. Einen großen Teil ihres Alltags bewältigen Menschen digital. So haben sich durch d
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ie fortschreitende Digitalisierung beispielsweise der Schulalltag, die Lehr- sowie Studienjahre und das Berufsleben auf tiefgreifende Weise gewandelt. Um die Flut von Nachrichten und Informationen verarbeiten und nach Relevantem filtern zu können, wird eine fundierte Medienkompetenz benötigt. Durch diese lernen Menschen zu erkennen, welche Informationen wichtig, welche richtig und welche falsch sind und welche Interessen sich hinter ihnen verbergen. Auch für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und den Zusammenhalt in der Demokratie ist Medienkompetenz daher ein wichtiger Faktor. Diese Darstellung gibt einen konsistenten Überblick zum Thema Medienkompetenz, beleuchtet dabei die historische Entwicklung und die theoretische Perspektive und blickt auch auf aktuelle Herausforderungen." (www.bpb.de)
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"The prevalence of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is rising at an unprecedented rate, and influencing human behavior is often the first line of defense to slow disease transmissions. We synthesize the contributions that social and behavior change research and programming has made in 6 recent EI
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Ds that reached epidemic proportions: HIV, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Zika virus, Ebola virus disease, and coronavirus disease. Analysis of successful and unsuccessful responses to EID outbreaks suggests 5 primary lessons learned that can be used by social and behavior change (SBC) experts in future EID responses: engage communities, build trust through transparent risk communication, segment audiences for tailored interventions, prioritize behaviors, and cultivate political will and commitment. Incorporating SBC experts into EID responses can reduce mortality and improve efficiency in such precarious and time-sensitive settings." (Key messages)
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"This chapter explores the role that the media plays in transitional justice settings where countries embark on a mission to redress past histories of atrocity. These accountability mechanisms will be reported on by the same media outlets that operated during times of repression and violent conflict
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. The author argues for a proactive discussion of how the media fits into transitional justice projects, and contends that those who design transitional policy may need to ask whether the media should be expected to promote the transitional justice agenda as well as censor divisive and potentially misleading statements from those opposing the transitional justice process." (Abstract)
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"This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, comm
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unication and the media are widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although there has been significant academic attention on the relationship between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links between communication and conflict, rather than on communication and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding - as opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention." (Publisher description)
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"The present paper [...] seeks to examine what could be the groundwork to build a framework for ‘Communication for Peace’ (C4P) on, to identify the major areas of relevant research that exist, lacunae in this body of work, fruitful intersections between different disciplines and eventually, to p
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rovide outlines for a future research agenda. Specifically, the potential of the post-liberal peace critique will be considered as a fruitful theoretical lens for such further endeavors." (Abstract)
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