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Social Media for Development’s case-study archive
David Girling’s archive collects 134 case studies and other posts on how charities, aid agencies, and activists use social media in international development.
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- The archive spans 2012–2023, with 35 entries in 2013 and 31 in 2014; it also includes a 2020 coronavirus-communications case.
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Entries are grouped by year and can also be filtered through labels such as case studies, round-ups, video, Twitter, and photography. The visible sample ranges from a Malawi gender-based-violence reporting example to a question about using children’s images in charity fundraising. The archive includes short pieces with displayed reading times, including entries marked one to six minutes.
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