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Werte ins Spiel bringen: An der Schnittstelle von digitalen Spielen und Wertebildung

Chadi Bahouth, Jessica Dietz, Amir Alexander Fahim et al.
Berlin: Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2024), 118 pp.
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Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications

Sarah Hackfort, Sarah Marquis, Kelly Bronson
Big Data & Society (2024), 15 pp.
"The global food system is characterized by market concentration and oligopoly. In our article, we focus on the most powerful input supply and machinery companies and analyze how these firms create value, both economic and otherwise, from big data. In digital capitalism, data is valorized across sec ... more
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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance

Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain ... more
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Imaginaries of democratization and the value of open environmental data: Analysis of Microsoft’s planetary computer

Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 14 pp.
"The proliferation of environmentally oriented programs within the tech industry, and the industry’s coinciding efforts toward data and technology democratization, generate concerns about the status of environmental data within digital economy. While the accumulation of digital personal data has b ... more
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Deconstructing the role of ICTs in agricultural development using the diverse economies framework

Maria Touri
Information Technology for Development, volume 30, issue 4 (2024), pp. 696-716
"ICT4D research is predominantly governed by discourses of instrumental usage of ICTs and measurable ends dictated by official policies. Particularly in agricultural production, farmers are cast as tool-users expected to use ICTs to achieve pre-determined goals. The article argues that such approach ... more
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In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions

Patricia Ferrante, Federico Williams, Felix Büchner, Svea Kiesewetter, Godfrey Chitsauko Muyambi, Chinaza Uleanya, Marie Utterberg Modén
Learning Media and Technology, volume 49, issue 1 (2024), pp. 122-132
"The interplay of digital technologies and inequalities are increasingly discussed in contemporary research, mostly focusing on different forms of digital divides and often addressed as a ‘problem’ that societies should face. Hence, digital education and its governance becomes a major arena for ... more
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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation

Monja Sauvagerd, Maximilian Mayer, Monika Hartmann
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.
"This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector. We examine this phenomenon through the lens of Van Dijck e ... more
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Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram

Eduardo Paz Diaz, Paola Ricaurte
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 15 pp.
"The antivaccine hesitancy movement represents a challenge to public policy and platform regulations. During COVID-19, various Latin American antivaccine groups clashed with official sanitary initiatives. Despite many responses, little progress has been made in reaching these groups to transform the ... more
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective

Vaclav Stetka, Francisco Brandao, Sabina Mihelj, Fanni Toth, Daniel Hallin, Danilo Rothberg, Paulo Ferracioli, Beata Klimkiewicz
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to ... more
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Experientially simulated others: Finding social support for mental health in digital games

Jeff Nicklas
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"People with mental illness struggle to find connection and community due to a combination of stigma, social isolation, and adverse social experiences. Digital games, as an immersive and interactive media, can convey aspects of mental health experiences in thoughtful ways. I considered how players c ... more
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Using social impact games to overcome intractable conflicts: The case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker

Ronit Kampf, Lolie Nicolaidou
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 16 pp.
"Is there a spillover effect in multiperspectivity regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among Israeli and Palestinian undergraduate students that results from playing a social impact game about a different conflictual context? We examined whether playing Fact Finders (Cyprus conflict) and Peac ... more
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Decolonisation: The media challenge

Henry Roberts
International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) (2024), 28 pp.
"Newsrooms and NGOs need to diversify: Both newsrooms and charities need to diversify further in order to avoid the same perspectives being overrepresented and outdated assumptions being perpetuated. Charities should use photography in more innovative ways: Charities can use photography in different ... more
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The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024: Marking Ten Years of the Humanitarian Data Exchange

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 33 pp.
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OCHA and Meta: Partnering to give humanitarians open access to population data

Kate Katch
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 10 pp.
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OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2024), 46 pp.
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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa

Oluyinka Osunkunle
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124
"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t ... more
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Effects of Radio-Based Extension Services on farmers’ Adoption of Organo-Mineral Fertilizers, Biofertilizers, and Manure in Lesotho

Nthapeliseng Nthama, O. I. Oladele
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 17 pp.
"This study examined the effects of radio-based extension services on farmers’ adoption of organo-mineral fertilizer, biofertilizer, and manure in Lesotho using a sample of 1659 farmers extracted from the 2019/2020 agricultural production survey database Bureau of Statistics (BOS). Data were analy ... more
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Building a Better Participatory Culture and Enhancing Sense of Community in Podcasts: Systematic Literature Review

Juska Wendland
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 23 pp.
"This article studies the mechanisms for building a better participatory culture around podcasts and narrows the information gap among the podcast studies from the perspective of a sense of community. The research question is “What kind of participatory culture enhances a sense of community among ... more
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Low-connectivity Educational Technology: A Case Study of Supporting Learning during Covid-19 via SMS with ‘Keep Kenya Learning’

Katy Jordan, Albina Mumbi, Phoebe Khagame, Lydia Njuguna
Journal of Learning for Development, volume 11, issue 3 (2024), pp. 553-562
"The use of Short Messaging Service (SMS) for education has grown in recent years, drawing particular attention to supporting school-level learners, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This renewed interest has prompted questions about how this form of educational technology could be used in the longer te ... more
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Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review

Winfred Ekezie, Beauty Igein, Jomon Varughese, Ayesha Butt, Blessing Onyinye Ukoha-Kalu, Ifunanya Ikhile, Genevieve Bosah
Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.
"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec ... more