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Digital Empowerment for Girls
Woking, UK: Plan International (2018), 23 pp.
"This briefing paper argues that promoting girls’ digital literacy and closing the digital gender gap will play an important role in achieving gender equality and promoting the rights of girls and women worldwide. Indeed, bridging the digital gender divide is essential in ensuring girls and women
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xiv, 516 pp.
"Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and
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A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xiii, 281 pp.
"From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital medi
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Instrumentalising the Digital: Adolescents’ Engagement with ICTs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 432-443
"In development agendas regarding children in low-income communities, both older and emerging media are typically ignored or assumed to have beneficial powers that will redress social and gender inequality. This article builds on a recent rapid evidence review on adolescents’ digital media use and
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Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373
"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a
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Techio comunitario: Caminos hacia un programa de formación en comunicación indígena
Revista NuestrAmérica, volume 6, issue 12 (2018), pp. 22-35
"A partir de la experiencia de investigación participativa y la construcción de un programa de formación de técnicos comunitarios en México, en este texto se problematizan las características, retos y posibilidades de la comunicación indígena. La invitación que hacemos es a reflexionar sobr
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Competência informacional e o uso ético da informação na produção científica
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2018), 208 pp.
Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 225-241
"In this chapter we have offered an interpretation of the first twenty years of mobile telephony in marginal zones in Africa. With case-studies from central Mali, anglophone Cameroon and south-east Angola, we focused on the changes in both communication and mobility patterns, specifically in connect
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Socio-Informatics: A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), xviii, 559 pp.
"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w
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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development, Volume 2
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 48 pp.
"With the second volume in the series Digital Innovation Made in Africa, we want to raise awareness of the enormous potential of young entrepreneurs in Africa. In this edition, the Tech Entrepreneurship Initiative Make-IT in Africa presents innovative initiatives and projects that have attracted att
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Digital Identity in the ICT Ecosystem: An Overview
Geneva: ITU (2018), vii, 29 pp.
"In our increasingly digital environment, it is of paramount importance that citizens be in possession of a legal and digital identity if they are to access digital government services and participate fully in the digital economy. In 2018, of the 175 countries with a national ID (foundational or leg
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"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.
"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve
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