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Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies
Stanford University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2012), 20 pp.
"While Internet access to certain sites is blocked in some parts of the world, these restrictions are often circumvented using proxies outside the censored region. Often these proxies are blocked as soon as they are discovered. In this paper we propose a browser-based proxy creation system that gene
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Social Media in the Arab World: Influencing Societal and Cultural Change?
Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 29 pp.
"In this fourth issue of the report, we focus on exploring the societal and cultural transformations taking place in the Arab region, influenced by the continuing exponential growth of social media. In this edition of the report we provide regional statistics on more social networking platforms, in
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo
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Mapping Digital Media: India
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 155 pp.
"The United Nations pointed out in 2010 that more Indians have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet. There are over 800 million mobile connections, although the number of unique users (excluding inactive connections) is estimated at around 600 million. Together with the fact that 60 percent of
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Mapping Digital Media: News and New Media in Central Africa. Challenges and Opportunities
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 65 pp.
"In this report, Marie-Soleil Frère surveys the news landscapes of DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda. Marshaling an impressive range of data, she examines patterns of production and consumption, the often grim realities of law and regulation, the embryonic state of media policy, the role of donors, and the
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ICTs and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide: Theory and Perspectives
Hershey; New York: Information Science Reference (2011), 314 pp.
"This book focuses on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), which includes any technology used for communication and information, researching the social side of computing, the users, and the design of systems that meet the needs of "ordinary" users." (Publisher descript
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Telecommunications Regulation Handbook
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program; ITU, 10th anniversary ed. (2011), 241 pp.
Revisiting the ‘leapfrog’ Debate in Light of Current Trends of Mobile Phone Internet Usage in the Greater Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 263-276
"At first glance, mobile technology appears to have the potential to allow countries in Africa to technologically ‘leapfrog’ across the digital divide and provide much needed Internet access to a wide range of people currently unable to participate in the Information Society. This study investig
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Virtualität und Inszenierung: Unterwegs in der digitalen Mediengesellschaft. Ein medienethisches Impulspapier
Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2011), 88 pp.
"Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich seit einiger Zeit in einem großen Umbruch. Ein wichtiger Motor der Veränderungen sind die Medien. Die technische Entwicklung hat zu einem Medienwandel geführt. Der Wandel hat weit reichende Folgen, gerade auch für das soziale Gefüge. Die Aufspaltung in viele K
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Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy: Converting the Virtual Economy into Developmental Potential
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xii, 58 pp.
The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.
"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es
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The Handbook of Internet Studies
Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xiii, 498 pp.
ICTs and Development in India: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society
London; New York: Anthem Press (2011), xii, 215 pp.
"ICTs and Development in India' is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India." (Publisher description)
Social Change and the Russian Network Society: Redefining Development Priorities in New Information Environments
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2011), 27 pp.
"This paper explores the use of new information technologies in Russia to examine the next generation of media development and to ask how the ability of the “network society” – and the new forms of collective action it allows to contribute to social change can be supported. Building on the ide
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Stream your life!? Kommunikation und Medienbildung im Web 2.0
München: kopaed; Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (GMK) (2011), 227 pp.
"Der Band gibt einen Einblick in verschiedene sozial- und medienwissenschaftliche Studien zur Erforschung der Potenziale und der sozialen, ethischen sowie rechtlichen Problematiken von sowohl Netzwerkportalen als auch Online-Spielekulturen. Wissenschaftler und Praktiker setzen sich ausführlich mit
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