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Exposure Diversity as a Design Principle for Recommender Systems

Natali Helberger, Kari Karppinen, Lucia D' Acunto

Information, Communication & Society, volume 21, issue 2 (2016), pp. 191-207

"Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and ... more

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Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Global Nannies in Paris

Youna Kim

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 525-539

"Feminization of migration has emerged as a common livelihood strategy to alleviate poverty and escape difficult socioeconomic, cultural, and familial situations. Mobile phones have become the most crucial and pervasive communication device that enables migrants to be simultaneously mobile and conne ... more

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Toolkit: Digitalisation in Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und internationaler Zusammenabreit in Bildung, Kultur und Medien
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Bonn; Berlin: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2016), 178 pp.

"The toolkit explores how digital instruments can be employed to meet the sector- and region-specific needs of those planning, managing and implementing DC/IC measures. It provides political decision-makers and DC/IC implementers with information on the kinds of digital applications that are relevan ... more

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Safeguarding Human Rights on the Net

Council of Europe (2016), 6 pp.

"Revelations on mass online surveillance and regular reports on abuses of the rights to privacy and free expression clearly show the need to effectively protect human rights on the net. The Council of Europe works with governments, the private sector, civil society and other actors to shape the Inte ... more

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Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics, and Society

Jacob Metcalf, Emily F. Keller, Danah Boyd

Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society (2016), 23 pp.

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South African Kids Online: A Glimpse Into Children’s Internet Use and Online Activities

Liesa Jossel (ed.)

Cape Town: Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (2016), 46 pp.

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Communication in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of Media and Mobile Audiences

Annabelle Wittels, Nick Maybanks

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.

"The survey indicates that radio remains the most widely accessed broadcast platform in Sierra Leone. In all, eight out of 10 (81%) Sierra Leoneans have access to radio, and 47% listen to it daily. Radio listenership is fractured, however, with no single station able to reach a national audience. Ar ... more

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2015, 70/125: Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

United Nations, General Assembly (2016), 14 pp.

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Compromised Connections: Overcoming Privacy Challenges of the Mobile Internet

Internews;Vodafone Foundation (2016), 14 pp.

"Compromised Connections is a brief introduction to emerging security issues facing mobile phones in development. It recommends safety measures that can be quickly adopted – from device safety to data security – and points to resources that may be useful for people interested in following future ... more

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The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use the Law to Silence Expression Online

Wafa Ben Hassine

Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016), 31 pp.

"I have found that Saudi Arabia and Jordan rely on counterterrorism and cybercrime regulations to prosecute online activism. Egypt uses a new anti-protest law passed in 2014 and Tunisia, in contrast, relies on old defamation and anti-drug laws that have been used for decades prior to the revolution. ... more

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Ethics for a Digital Age

Bastiaan Vanacker, Don Heider (eds.)

New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2016), xii, 239 pp.

"Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive content, and privacy), this volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues facing a society where digital has become the new normal. St ... more

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Understanding the Use of Circumvention Tools to Bypass Online Censorship

Yi Mou, Kevin Wu, David Atkin

New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 5 (2016), pp. 837-856

"Circumvention tools designed to bypass online censorship such as simple web proxies, virtual private network service, and so on are frequently used in countries whose governments impose heavy Internet censorship. Around 18 million Internet users in China are currently using those tools to bypass th ... more

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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia

Larissa Hjorth, Olivia Khoo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.

"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever ... more

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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares

Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.

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Social Media: Enduring Principles

Ashlee Humphreys

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xviii, 302 pp.

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Indigenous Social Media Practices in Southwestern Amazonia

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

AlterNative: An International Journal, volume 11, issue 4 (2016), pp. 350-362

"This article discusses how the use of social media fosters, motivates, and regulates social relations among the Arawakan- and Panoan- speaking indigenous groups in the state of Acre and the southern part of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, where even the smallest towns have recently received highspee ... more

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How to Engage in Cyber Policy: Tools for Human Rights Defenders

Global Partners Digital (2016)

"This series aims to help human rights defenders develop the tools, skills and knowledge they need to engage effectively in cyber policy debates. The series is structured around five modules. The first four each focus on a different aspect of cyber policy - human rights, cybersecurity, regulatory fr ... more

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Evolución del mercado de telecomunicaciones móviles en el Perú

Rozzana Loaiza Flower

Lima: Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) (2016), 82 pp.

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Journalist Security in the Digital World: A Survey. Are We Using the Right Tools?

Javier Garza Ramos

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 13 pp.

"This survey was designed to measure how journalists around the world take advantage of technology to enhance their security. The results suggest that there is a general lack of awareness about the power that digital tools have to improve a journalist’s protection. There are scores of organization ... more

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Geopolitics of Search: Google Versus China?

Shin Joung Yeo

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 591-605

"This article focuses on the case of Google, the newly emerged US Internet industry and global geographical market expansion. Google's struggles in China, where Chinese domestic Internet firm, Baidu, controls the market, have been commonly presented in the Western mainstream media in terms of a stru ... more

Toolkit: Digitalisation in Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und internationaler Zusammenabreit in Bildung, Kultur und Medien Key Guidance

Toolkit: Digitalisation in Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und internationaler Zusammenabreit in Bildung, Kultur und Medien
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