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Cancer during pregnancy, though rare, poses unique medical, emotional, and logistical challenges, particularly in resource-limited settings. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are crucial but often hindered by limited healthcare access, digital literacy barriers, and cultural stigmas. Digital media and mobile health (mHealth) applications offer promising solutions to raise cancer awareness among pregnant women in such settings. This review explores the role of digital media platforms (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook) and mHealth apps in enhancing cancer awareness, early detection, and health-seeking behaviors. It assesses the reach, impact, and engagement strategies of these tools, highlighting successful initiatives in countries like Uganda and Kenya, while also addressing challenges such as digital accessibility, privacy concerns, and the need for culturally sensitive content. Despite challenges, digital platforms provide essential health information, foster support networks, and enable remote consultations, offering an innovative way to bridge healthcare gaps. The review concludes by emphasizing the need for sustainable, culturally tailored, and accessible digital health interventions to improve cancer care for pregnant women in low-resource environments. 

Cancer during pregnancy, though rare, poses unique medical, emotional, and logistical challenges, particularly in resource-limited settings. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are crucial but often hindered by limited healthcare access, digital literacy barriers, and cultural stigmas. Digital media and mobile health (mHealth) applications offer promising solutions to raise cancer awareness among pregnant women in such settings. This review explores the role of digital media platforms (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook) and mHealth apps in enhancing cancer awareness, early detection, and health-seeking behaviors. It assesses the reach, impact, and engagement strategies of these tools, highlighting successful initiatives in countries like Uganda and Kenya, while also addressing challenges such as digital accessibility, privacy concerns, and the need for culturally sensitive content. Despite challenges, digital platforms provide essential health information, foster support networks, and enable remote consultations, offering an innovative way to bridge healthcare gaps. The review concludes by emphasizing the need for sustainable, culturally tailored, and accessible digital health interventions to improve cancer care for pregnant women in low-resource environments. 

Presentation by Marco Scarcelii at the Closing Seminar of the #ON_Sex Project about Sexual Rights for At-Risk Youth. Lisbon, Portugal December 2nd, 2015

Presentation by Marco Scarcelii at the Closing Seminar of the #ON_Sex Project about Sexual Rights for At-Risk Youth. Lisbon, Portugal December 2nd, 2015

[ Watch this video interview here ] CNS Special Correspondent Rahul Kumar Dwivedi was in conversation with Dr Becky Freeman, Senior Lecturer at School of Public Health, The University of Sydney and NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow. CNS is an official media partner of the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health (12th APACT) in Bali, Indonesia (12-15 September 2018). Dr Becky Freeman shares her invaluable insight on how tobacco industry is exploiting social media and digital online tools, to lure our children and youth and hook them to deadly tobacco products. She also shares how tobacco industry is leveraging social media and digital tools to exponentially grow new markets of electronic cigarettes, heat not burn tobacco products, other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems, etc. Dr Becky Freeman rightly says that “The biggest fear of the tobacco industry is that smoking will no longer be socially accepted. They are the masters of using media to promote tobacco products right from the beginning, be it TV, radio, or newspapers. And they are doing the same in digital era too. So, governments should invest in monitoring online media, make tobacco industry report on their marketing budgets, and frame policies and legislation that includes online social media to curb tobacco consumption". ‘Focus’ is a CNS video series on current global health and development priorities. This is episode 142. Thanks CNS Team Email: [email protected] Website: www.citizen-news.org Twitter @CNS_Health, @RahulDwived85 Facebook.com/CNS.page

[ Watch this video interview here ] CNS Special Correspondent Rahul Kumar Dwivedi was in conversation with Dr Becky Freeman, Senior Lecturer at School of Public Health, The University of Sydney and NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow. CNS is an official media partner of the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health (12th APACT) in Bali, Indonesia (12-15 September 2018). Dr Becky Freeman shares her invaluable insight on how tobacco industry is exploiting social media and digital online tools, to lure our children and youth and hook them to deadly tobacco products. She also shares how tobacco industry is leveraging social media and digital tools to exponentially grow new markets of electronic cigarettes, heat not burn tobacco products, other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems, etc. Dr Becky Freeman rightly says that “The biggest fear of the tobacco industry is that smoking will no longer be socially accepted. They are the masters of using media to promote tobacco products right from the beginning, be it TV, radio, or newspapers. And they are doing the same in digital era too. So, governments should invest in monitoring online media, make tobacco industry report on their marketing budgets, and frame policies and legislation that includes online social media to curb tobacco consumption". ‘Focus’ is a CNS video series on current global health and development priorities. This is episode 142. Thanks CNS Team Email: [email protected] Website: www.citizen-news.org Twitter @CNS_Health, @RahulDwived85 Facebook.com/CNS.page

Marco Torres is an internationally renowned speaker, filmmaker, and author of a wide variety of digital content. He is also a high school social studies teacher in San Fernando, California, which is in Los Angeles county. Marco was named the California Teacher of Year last year, and serves on the board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. He is a passionate teacher focused on helping students become engaged in learning and acquire the skills they need to thrive in our twenty-first century digital culture. Marco believes in helping students learn to market themselves well, because test scores cannot and do not sum up the capabilities and potentials of human beings. Marco is a fellow-devotee of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, and sees digital media as the tools of liberation for people who have lived in comparatively disadvantaged situations. Marco sees the Internet as the stage on which digital media content is and will continue to be published for a global audience hungry to hear the voices of our neighborhoods. The podcast shownotes include links to some of Marco's websites, digital media creations, and those of his amazing high school students. We need more teachers in our schools with the passion, dedication, and vision of Marco Antonio Torres.

Marco Torres is an internationally renowned speaker, filmmaker, and author of a wide variety of digital content. He is also a high school social studies teacher in San Fernando, California, which is in Los Angeles county. Marco was named the California Teacher of Year last year, and serves on the board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. He is a passionate teacher focused on helping students become engaged in learning and acquire the skills they need to thrive in our twenty-first century digital culture. Marco believes in helping students learn to market themselves well, because test scores cannot and do not sum up the capabilities and potentials of human beings. Marco is a fellow-devotee of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, and sees digital media as the tools of liberation for people who have lived in comparatively disadvantaged situations. Marco sees the Internet as the stage on which digital media content is and will continue to be published for a global audience hungry to hear the voices of our neighborhoods. The podcast shownotes include links to some of Marco's websites, digital media creations, and those of his amazing high school students. We need more teachers in our schools with the passion, dedication, and vision of Marco Antonio Torres.

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.

The title of this volume, "Learning Languages in the Digital Age," focuses on the integration of technology to promote authentic and interactive communication within and outside the walls of the language classroom. Major innovations have shifted Internet use from a consumer to a participatory model; that is, previously, Internet users were placed in the role of consumers who had access to materials and information (this phase of Internet integration is commonly referred to as Web 1.0). Now Internet users can become producers of resources themselves (Web 2.0 is a term used to describe this shift in Internet use from a consumer model to a participatory model). While traditional consumer and communication applications continue, widespread participation as producers of resources has jumped dramatically. Blogging, podcasting, Wikis, and other forms of democratized media are all examples of applications that promise to challenge traditional systems and roles and to enhance the nature of language teaching and learning. This shift from consumer to producer allows language learners to take a more active role in the learning process, participate in authentic communication and create products that can serve as authentic assessment of language production. This volume provides the theoretical foundation for effective language teaching and learning while providing practical applications for the language classroom. Each of the three sections represents an important aspect of language education designed to promote best practices and to increase student achievement: (1) Embracing Technology: Tools Teachers Can Use to Improve Language Learning; (2) Teacher Education and Professional Development: Agents of Change; and (3) Teaching Culture through Divergent Paths.

The shift towards good-looking, interactive, and platform-based content has been accompanied by an explosion in demand for effective social media content creation . It is not just a creative task for businesses, brands, and agencies; it is a growth driver. Anyone can create a scalable, professional content strategy that performs and that people engage with using content creation tools for social media and platforms like Munch Studio that are future-proof.

The battle for online visibility is intense. A torrent of millions of posts, stories, reels, and videos bursts onto platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube every day. If the battle is as intense, posting much without a strategy and the proper social media marketing tools will not suffice; it needs a strategy-driven initiative driven by the proper tools. The shift towards good-looking, interactive, and platform-based content has been accompanied by an explosion in demand for effective social media content creation . It is not just a creative task for businesses, brands, and agencies; it is a growth driver. Anyone can create a scalable, professional content strategy that performs and that people engage with using content creation tools for social media and platforms like Munch Studio that are future-proof.