Warren Feek

May 3, 2024 | comminit.com | Warren Feek

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community "...hope that this issue might pave the way towards sustaining relationships and collaborations of care, trust, and future feminist decolonial works beyond this special issue, and potentially become a collective of like-minded scholars, activists, artists and thinkers guided by decolonial feminist intentions." This special issue of the journal Gender & Development (July-November 2023) attempts to centre...

Dec 12, 2023 | comminit.com | Warren Feek |Rebecka Lundgren

convening the communication and media development, social and behaviour change community Affiliation: Tata Memorial Hospital (Raj); former National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Singh); University of Michigan (Singh, Wagner, Boulton) "Human behavior and understanding of the vaccine ecosystem play a critical role in the vaccination decision-making process." People experience a variety of biases, and these biases have an...

Dec 2, 2023 | comminit.com | Warren Feek |Rebecka Lundgren

Affiliation: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (Nielsen, Cherubini); University of Oxford (Nielsen) "Our findings capture how digital-born publishers reject the hype that sometimes surrounds the opportunities platforms offer..." This report, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, analyses how various digital publishers across a range of Global South countries approach digital platforms, including: big platform companies, such as Google and Meta; rapidly...

Dec 2, 2023 | comminit.com | Warren Feek |Rebecka Lundgren

Affiliation:  "...interventions using an exclusively religious framing are unlikely to be effective and highlight the need to develop and sustainably implement tailor-made interventions that match actual barriers..."The Jewish Ultra-Orthodox (UO) population is an under-vaccinated minority group that has been disproportionally affected by outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) such as measles and polio. Underlying reasons remain poorly characterised.

Dec 2, 2023 | comminit.com | Warren Feek |Rebecka Lundgren

Affiliation: "Caught between polarised hostile politics, broken economics, media capture, platform dominance, and a brutally competitive media and entertainment environment, journalism sectors worldwide are struggling to survive while preserving their key public interest function." This policy paper looks at the emergence around the world of national funds for journalism (NFJs) as an increasingly important instrument for providing strategic, long-term financial support to independent public...