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Youth Culture and Mobiles

Gerard Goggin

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-88

"The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and ... more

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Freedom of Expression and the Internet

Wolfgang Benedek, Matthias C. Kettemann

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2013), 190 pp.

"This book sets out to answer essential questions regarding the extent and limits of freedom of expression online. It seeks to shed light on the often obscure landscape of what we are allowed to say online and how our ideas, and the process of imparting and receiving information, are protected. It s ... more

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Social Media in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Geraldine de Bastion

In: Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik

Hartmut Ihne; Jürgen Wilhelm (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2013), pp. 367-380

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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media

Natalie M. Underberg, Elayne Zorn

Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.

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Lions Go Digital: The Internet’s Transformative Potential in Africa

James Manyika, Armando Cabral, Lohini Moodley, Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Suraj Moraje, Michael Chui, Jerry Anthonyrajah, Acha Leke

McKinsey (2013), 112 pp.

"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid ... more

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Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach

Dorothea Kleine

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2013), xii, 267 pp.

"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi ... more

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The World Internet Project: International Report

Jeffrey I. Cole et al.

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Center for the Digital Future, 5th ed. (2013), 87 pp.

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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more

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The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective

Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (eds.)

London: Routledge (2013), 324 pp.

"This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines “the digital divide” as the unequal access and utility of internet communic ... more

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Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: A critical analysis

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn

In: Online Journalism in Africa

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara; Okoth Fred Mudhai; Jason Whittaker (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), 16 pp.

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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia

Weiyu Zhang, Emmanuel C. Lallana (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 3 (2013), pp. 249-337

"The articles collected in this special issue share a common focus: young adults’ use of new media for civic engagement in South and Southeast Asia. Youth engagement problems are evident when established democracies witness a decline in youth participation in traditional civic activities (e.g., vo ... ting) compared to the participation levels of older generations. MacKinnon et al. (2007) stated, ‘[y]outh are turned off by the game of partisan politics and increasingly refuse to learn or apply the rules. In large measure, they are reinventing civic and political engagement.’ We began our project with the observation that the youth in South and Southeast Asia demonstrate distinctive patterns of civic and political engagement, and we sought information about whether these patterns are a consequence of a generational shift or a result of contextual changes, such as those in political systems and media technologies. We examined two propositions that are often associated with youth engagement and new media. First, new media change the relationship between youth and existing political systems. Second, new media change the nature of civic engagement itself, especially for the youth. As we inquired further, we found that using established democracies as our reference point might have been incorrect. The difference between the so-called young or semi-democracies and established or mature democracies is not that the former is an inadequate version of the latter. Instead, the political systems found in South and Southeast Asia have their own characteristics, and these systems cannot be simply classified as a lack of democratic components. The same thing can be said about new media. The difference between the region in question and other regions, such as North America and Europe, is not that the former lacks access to technologies that are common in the latter. Instead, the type and use of technologies in the region show unique patterns that cannot be simply defined as less advanced. When we refer to the region, we make no attempt to generate a singular discourse for all the countries involved. Instead, we are highly sensitive to the diversity presented in the individual cases that belong to the region in this study. The end product, therefore, becomes a juxtaposition of multiple reference points that can be not only compared to established democracies but also compared to the other countries in Asia." (Page 249) more

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The World in 2013: ICT Facts and Figures

Geneva: ITU (2013), 8 pp.

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Überwachtes Deutschland: Post- und Telefonüberwachung in der alten Bundesrepublik

Josef Foschepoth

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2013), 377 pp.

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Spider Stories 2012

Katja Sarajeva (ed.)

Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions;Stockholm University (2013), 99 pp.

"In Spider Stories 2012 you will get an overview of results from Spider projects initiated in 2011-2012 in collaboration with project partners in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In partnership with local organizations, we have supported innovative projects in democracy, education, and ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Malaysia

Jo-Ann Ding, Lay Chin Koh, Jacqueline Ann Surin

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 120 pp.

"Two out of three Malaysians regularly use the internet (even though large areas of the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, where nearly a fifth of the population lives, pose logistical challenges regarding infrastructure) and a third of the population have a 3G mobile subscription. Broadban ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Bulgaria

Vesislava Antonova, Andrian Georgiev

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 92 pp.

"After a significant delay, the transition to digital terrestrial broadcasting in Bulgaria is scheduled to be finished in 2013. While cable television appears to have peaked since 2007, satellite television continues to increase its penetration, more often through bundled services. On the other hand ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Kenya

George Nyabuga, Nancy Booker

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 94 pp.

"In online journalism, the virtues associated with ethics—accuracy, honesty, truth, impartiality, fairness, balance, respect for autonomy of ordinary people—are barely respected, largely because there is no effective way of policing this, and there are no legal penalties. Concentration of owners ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.

"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept ... more

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Neue Medien

Nah Dran (GIZ), issue 1 (2013), pp. 12-27

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Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT): Schlüsseltechnologien für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Bonn; Berlin: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2013), 32 pp.