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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices

Tendai Chari

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110

"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat ... more

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Hotlines: Responding to Reports of Illegal Online Content. A Guide to Setting Up an Internet Hotline

London: GSMA;Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content;International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE) (2014), 30 pp.

"As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting online child sexual abuse content and, in particular, to helping its members realise the objectives of the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content, the GSMA has worked with INHOPE, Save the Children, ECPAT, IWF, Net Safe Latvia, Meldpunt, ICM ... more

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Vigilancia de las comunicaciones en Colombia: Al abismo entre la capacidad tecnológica y los controles legales

Carlos Cortés Castillo

Bogotá: Dejusticia (2014), 50 pp.

"El objetivo de este documento es examinar el marco legal y jurisprudencial colombiano sobre vigilancia de comunicaciones, a la luz de las capacidades tecnológicas de hoy. Dicho a manera de hipótesis, el propósito es mostrar cómo la regulación y la jurisprudencia en materia de inteligencia no s ... more

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Digital News Report 2014

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.

"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their ... more

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Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries

Katy E. Pearce

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82

"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res ... more

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Small Island Digital States: How Digital Can Catalyse SIDS Development

Calum Handforth, Florence Liu

UNDP (2014), 178 pp.

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The Mobile Economy Arab States

London: GSMA (2014), 72 pp.

"Mobile has scaled dramatically over recent years in the Arab States. The region’s mobile industry is one of the fastest growing globally, with over half of the population having subscribed to a mobile service at the end of 2013. This figure is forecast to reach almost 60% of the population by 202 ... more

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Sub-Saharan Africa: Universal Service Fund Study

London: GSMA (2014), 95 pp.

"The following report examines Universal Service Funds (‘USFs’) in 23 Sub-Saharan African (‘SSA’) countries These USFs are examined in a global context i.e., taking into account their characteristics and performance when measured against an additional 46 USFs in the Arab States, the Americas ... more

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Digital Russia: The language, culture and politics of new media communication

Michael S. Gorham, Ingunn Lunde, Martin Paulsen (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xix, 292 pp.

"Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have ... more

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Digital Youth Cultures in Small Town and Rural Gujarat, India

Manisha Pathak-Shelat, Cathy DeShano

New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 6 (2014), pp. 983-1001

"Youth in this study treat new media and technologies as one limited component of otherwise rich lives and social experiences. While new technologies promote individualistic mobility, Indian youth of small towns and rural places still live in collective social structures that shape their orientation ... more

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Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in Urban India

Neha Kumar

New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 7 (2014), pp. 1122-1137

"This article presents an ethnographic study of the adoption and use of Facebook among urban Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Mobile-centric use of the Internet is widely prevalent here as general packet radio service (GPRS)-enabled mobile phones and data plans have bec ... more

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Key Issues in the Development of Mobile Telephony in Botswana (1998-2011): An Empirical Investigation

William O. Lesitaokana

New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 5 (2014), pp. 840-855

"The study has shown that as a developing country, Botswana has done well to develop and structurally position the mobile telephony sector for the benefit of its citizens. This is evidenced by the high rate of subscription of mobile telephony countrywide and continuous attempts by the government to ... more

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The Internet and Development: A Critical Perspective

Tim Unwin

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 531-554

"This chapter extends a critical perspective on the economic impact of the Internet to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development, concentrating on the effects of the Internet on the lives of some of the poorest people and most marginalized communities. The disti ... more

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Digital Inequality

Eszter Hargittai, Yuli Patrick Hsieh

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 129-150

"This chapter investigates the research on inequalities in society, and also considers the digital inequality beyond overly simplistic conceptions of access to technologies. Additionally, it describes how people's background characteristics relate to their web-use skills and what they do online. The ... more

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Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia

Annisa R. Beta

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389

"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c ... more

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Safe Surfer: Schutz der Privatsphäre im digitalen Zeitalter

Martin Hellweg

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 190 pp.

"Ein praktisches, verständliches und effizientes Schutzprogramm für alle, die sich in der digitalen Welt bewegen. Safe Surfer funktioniert wie ein Arbeitsbuch – alle Tipps lassen sich parallel zum Lesen umsetzen. Google, Facebook oder die NSA – wie können wir unsere Privatsphäre im digitalen ... more

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Politik und politische Bildung in der digitalen Welt: Chancen und Herausforderungen

Michael Schröder (ed.)

Reinbek; München: Lau (2014), 213 pp.

"Das Digitale führt zu einem tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Betroffen sind das politische System unserer parlamentarischen Parteiendemokratie, die Medien sowie das Lernen in seinen unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen. Diese revolutionären Umwälzungen bleiben nicht ohne Folgen. Denn: Über ... more

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Mobile Community Reporting: A Grassroots Perspective on Journalism

Olivier Nyirubugara

Leiden: Sidestone Press (2014), 144 pp.

"In this book, the author presents what he calls the 'Mobile Community Reporting' approach based on a six-year training experiment [of the Voices of Africa Media Foundation] in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the ... more