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Mapping Digital Media: Chile
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 127 pp.
"Overall, digitization has only partly impacted on the media landscape in Chile. It has neither altered the neoliberal trajectory of media policy, nor reduced high levels of ownership concentration and incumbent advantages. But there is, at the very least, a framework in place that will potentially
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Impact 2.0: New Mechanisms for Linking Research and Policy
Montevideo: Comunica (2012), 167 pp.
This book features case studies and reports on the use of web 2.0 and social networking applications and services to increase the impact of research on policy in Latin America. During 2010 and 2011 Fundación Comunica, with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) an
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Mapping Digital Media: Turkey
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 81 pp.
Speak Safe: Media Workers’ Toolkit for Safer Online and Mobile Practices
Key Guides
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 56 pp.
"Speak safe" introduces reporters, journalists and bloggers to simple yet effective practices for maintaining control of important information and communications. Thirteen short chapters, of two to four pages each, provide basic knowledge about issues such as safe emailing, surfing, Wi-Fi, data dele
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The Rise of E-Reading
Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, Internet & American Life Project (2012), 68 pp.
"The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story about a shift from printed to digital material. Using a broader definition of e-content in a survey ending in December 2011, some 43% of Americans age 16 and older say they have either read an e-book in the past year or have read oth
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Mobilfunk und Modernisierung in Ostafrika: Adoption und Diffusion einer Kommunikationstechnologie
Stuttgart: Edition 451 (2012), 147 pp.
Vida digital: La tecnología en el centro de lo cotidiano
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012), 159 pp.
"Este es un ensayo tentativo, exploratorio, que quiere proponer de manera asequible algunas rutas de exploración de las consecuencias que la presencia de la Internet, las distintas tecnologías de información y comunicación y en general las nuevas formas de comunicación, plantean a las personas
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Iraq’s Information Crimes Law: Badly Written Provisions and Draconian Punishments Violate Due Process and Free Speech
New York et al.: Human Rights Watch (2012), 15 pp.
"Iraq’s parliament is in the process of enacting an “Information Crimes Law” to regulate the use of information networks, computers, and other electronic devices and systems. The draft law includes vague provisions that would allow Iraqi authorities to deter legitimate criticisms of or peacefu
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Cultura digital en América Latina: Investigación interuniversitaria Educación y Evangelización
Bogotá: Centro de Comunicación Educativa Audiovisual (CEDAL); Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); RIIAL (2012), 356 pp.
"This sampler is the result of a common research project of 16 Latin American universities and the Informatics Network of the Catholic Church in Latin America (RIIAL) on "the impact of digital culture in the Latin American societies". The first part consists of seven contributions studying the use o
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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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"Despite the massive uptake of mobile phones by agricultural producers, there are few quantitative studies that provide hard evidence of a link between technology and poverty reduction. Those studies that have explored this, however, found that farmer access to market information through radio, mobi
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The Social Media Reader
New York; London: New York University Press (2012), x, 289 pp.
"The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different s
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A Practical Guide to Sustainable IT
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2012), 167 pp.
"This practical guide to sustainable IT offers a detailed, hands-on introduction to thinking about sustainable computing holistically; starting with the choices you make when buying technology, the software and peripherals you use, through to how you store and work with information, manage your secu
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Mapping with Mobiles: Lessons Learnt from the Use of Smartphones for Fast Humanitarian Surveys in Zimbabwe
Harare; Copenhagen: Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 10 pp.
"SMS services have become a very efficient tool to warn people of health threats such as epidemics or water pollution, but smartphones can also be utilised to stream information in the opposite direction when they are used as tools for snap surveys. In both emergency settings and well-planned nation
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The Transformational Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Africa
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), 164 pp.
The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 66 pp.
"The community radio stations participating in the pilot project offer special dedication and greeting programs that allow community members to send greetings to friends and family on air. The main objective of this pilot was to understand whether these generally underfunded radio stations could mon
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