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Women & Web Content Creation Guidebook

Mwende Ngao, Rayhab Gachango

Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 54 pp.

"This guide is aimed at helping content creators sharpen their skills and better navigate the storytelling platform(s). It covers blogs, vlogs, podcasts and use of social media. It gives tips on how to be a better storyteller, identifies audiences and how to monetize platforms. It also explains some ... more

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Lockdown and Shutdown: Exposing the Impacts of Recent Network Disruptions in Myanmar and Bangladesh

Harvard Law School, Cyberlaw Clinic;International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC);PDi-Kintha;Rohingya Youth Association (2021), 44 pp.

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Harnessing Blockchain for Sustainable Development: Prospects and Challenges

Clovis Freire, Abiy Solomon, Maria Godunova, Weijing Ye, Ronak Shahsavar

Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2021), vii, 56 pp.

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Le Smartphone Global: Au-delà d’une technologie destinée aux jeunes

Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo et al.

London: UCL Press (2021), xxvii, 311 pp.

"[...] 11 anthropologues ont passé chacun 16 mois dans des communautés en Afrique, en Asie, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud pour analyser l’utilisation des smartphones par les personnes âgées. Leur recherche montre que les smartphones sont une technologie pour tous, qui n’est pas seulement ... more

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Social Media Usage During Covid-19 Pandemic: Beneficial or Injurious to Public Health in Nigeria?

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju

Abuja Journal of Philosophy and Theology (APT), volume 11 (2021), pp. 67-82

"Before the outbreak of COVID-19 from the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019, many people across the globe, Nigerians inclusive already relied on social media to gather and disseminate information and news. Since the outbreak of the virus on February 27th, 2020 in Nigeria, people have depended on ... more

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Algorithms and Communication

Monika Taddicken, Christina Schumann (eds.)

Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2021), 132 pp.

"The role of algorithms for producing and curating content as well as potential outcomes of these mechanisms is one of the most debated issues in existing communication research. “Communicating algorithms” affect processes of political, social and interpersonal communication. A broad variety of ... more

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Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely!
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Alton Grizzle, Carolyn Wilson, Dorothy Gordon (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed. (2021), 403 pp.

"This pioneering curriculum presents a comprehensive competency framework of media and information literacy and offers educators and leraners structured pedagogical suggestions. It features various detailed modules covering the range of competencies needed to navigate today’s communications ecosys ... more

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The "Hate Speech" Policies of Major Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ana Laura Pérez

Montevideo: UNESCO Office Montevideo and Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), 32 pp.

"This document reports an increase in so-called “hate speech” posts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although dissimilar, such an increase can be observed in the transparency reports of the different platforms and the surge in content moderation since M ... more

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Digital Literacy

Jinmyeong Chung, Jiseon Yoo

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2021), 20 pp.

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Watching the Watchmen: Content Moderation, Governance, and Freedom of Expression

London: Article 19 (2021), 86 pp.

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Taming Big Tech: A Pro-Competitive Solution to Protect Free Expression

London: Article 19 (2021), 42 pp.

"In this policy, ARTICLE 19 outlines how open markets, competition, and users’ empowerment can help address current freedom of expression challenges in online content curation. We offer practical solutions on how to achieve these objectives through a pro-competitive instrument: the unbundling of t ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization

Dal Yong Jin

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 297 pp.

"The book begins by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and proceeds to explore how digital media have influenced a complex set of globalization processes in broad international and comparative contexts. Contributors address a number of key political, economic, ... more

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Policy guidance on AI for children

Virginia Dignum, Klara Pigmans, Steven Vosloo, Melanie Penagos

New York: UNICEF (2021), 59 pp.

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Data Responsibility Toolkit: A Guide for Cash and Voucher Practitioners

Linda Raftree, Anna Kondakhchyan

Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) (2021), 45 pp.

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Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Takaaki Masaki et al.

World Bank Group (2021), 49 pp.

"What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using pan ... more

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Regulating Disinformation in Europe: Implications for Speech and Privacy

van Hoboken, Joris, Ronan Ó Fathaigh

UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, volume 6 (2021), pp. 9-36

"This article examines the ongoing dynamics in the regulation of disinformation in Europe, focusing on the intersection between the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy. Importantly, there has been a recent wave of regulatory measures and other forms of pressure on online platform ... more

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Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns

Asia Centre (2021), 15 pp.

"Asia Centre’s Briefing Note, Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns, tracks the period 1 February to 31 March 2021. The Note provides a timeline of the shutdowns, reactions from protestors, technology companies and the international community, legal analysis of key laws and Myanmar’s international ... more

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The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy

Jamie Woodcock

London: University of Westminster Press (2021), x, 115 pp.

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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities

Allison Hahn

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.

"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com ... more

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ICT Use for Teaching Media Literacy: A Closer Look at the Relationships Between Teaching with and Teaching about Media

Priscila Berger

Media Literacy and Academic Research, volume 4, issue 2 (2021), pp. 6-24

"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are often considered crucial for teaching media and information literacy (MIL). However, there is a wide variety in educational media, and there are different competence areas in MIL. Thus, the idea that using any ICT can facilitate the fostering of ... more

Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely! Key Guidance

Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely!
Key Guidance