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Teaching and Learning with Twitter

Twitter;UNESCO (2019), 36 pp.

"Educators use Twitter in many ways, including: - The Digital Classroom: Twitter can be used to teach media and information literacy, including digital skills as well as global citizenship. You can prepare students to be informed, creative, engaged, empowered as well as how to express themselves — ... more

"Privacy is Not a Concept, But a Way of Dealing with Life": Localization of Transnational Technology Platforms and Liminal Privacy Practices in Cambodia

Margaret Jack, Pang Sovannaroth, Nicola Dell

In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2019), 19 pp.

"This paper describes findings from a qualitative research study that examines practices and perceptions of privacy in Cambodia as the population rapidly moves into an online environment (specifically Facebook, the most popular Internet tool in Cambodia today). We empirically demonstrate how the con ... more

Algo.Rules: Regeln für die Gestaltung algorithmischer Systeme

iRights.Lab;Bertelsmann Stiftung (2019), 7 pp.

"Bei den Algo.Rules handelt es sich um einen Katalog an formalen Kriterien, die beachtet werden müssen, um eine gesellschaftlich förderliche Gestaltung und Überprüfung von algorithmischen Systemen zu ermöglichen und zu erleichtern. Sie legen eine Grundlage für ethische Erwägungen und für die ... more

Mobile Myanmar: The Impact of Social Media on Young People in Conflict-Affected Regions of Myanmar

Brad Ridout, Melyn McKay, Krestina Amon et al.

Singapore: Save the Children;University of Sydney (2019), 137 pp.

"Most young people lack the digital citizenship skills required to protect themselves from the online dangers and emotional and mental health impacts of social media highlighted in this report. The study finds evidence that young people across Myanmar suffer from ‘hate speech fatigue’, often exa ... more

Social Media Guidelines for Media Professionals & Journalists in Southern Africa

Public Media Alliance (2019), 20 pp.

"For media organisations and broadcasters, blogs and other forms of online speech are fast becoming the most important forms of communication with audiences. To maintain the quality and consistency of your brand, any staff member who communicates officially on behalf of your organisation in any soci ... more

China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Technological Competition and Exporting Political Illiberalism

Clayton Cheney

Pacific Forum (2019), iv, 23 pp.

"The Digital Silk Road is the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that aims to establish China as the global technological superpower. While the Belt and Road Initiative is generally understood to be a foreign policy initiative, it is important to view the Digital Silk Road as both a for ... eign and domestically focused aspect of the initiative. The first step to analyzing this component of the Belt and Road Initiative is to create a conceptual roadmap to understand the components of the Digital Silk Road. This paper argues that it comprises four interrelated, technologically focused initiatives. First, China is investing abroad in digital infrastructure, including next generation cellular networks, fiberoptic cables and data centers. Second, it contains a domestic focus on developing advanced technologies that will be essential to global economic and military power. These advanced technologies include satellite navigation systems, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Third, because China recognizes the importance of economic interdependence to international influence, the Digital Silk Road promotes e-commerce through digital free trade zones. Last, digital diplomacy and governance, including through multilateral institutions, are key to China creating its ideal international digital environment. After outlining a broad conceptual map of the Digital Silk Road, this paper focuses on how China’s investment in digital infrastructure and the strategic technological competition between China and the United States will shape the international orders in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. It argues that China perceives technological advancement as the sphere in which it can most adequately challenge the United States’ global power without creating direct confrontation, including possible military confrontation. Second, the United States seeks to constrain the Digital Silk Road and China’s technological ascendancy by presenting Chinese technology corporations as posing an unacceptable risk to international security. Third, China does not want to replace the current international order that has persisted since the end of the Second World War. Rather, it would like to maintain the liberal economic order that has permitted its economic rise and export its form of digital authoritarianism to create an illiberal political international order. Finally, through investing in data centers and pursuing data localization policies, China aims to achieve strategic geopolitical objectives by projecting sharp power abroad, which will be facilitated by big data." (Executive Summary) more

The State of ICT in Uganda

Alison Gillwald (ed.)

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2019), VII, 26 pp.

"It is evident that Uganda will need to do some things differently to ensure improved outcomes. Addressing inconsistencies in policy that affect the sector is critical. Each policy that impacts the sector, regardless of the Ministry that develops it, should be evaluated before implementation within ... more

‘I didn’t read many books’: Chinese rural women’s reception of ‘born-digital’ social media and community engagement

Yini Wang, Judith Sandner

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 343-365

"Currently, research on older Chinese rural women’s reading activities through social media is scarce. This paper, based on a 2015 ethnographic study in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha, responds to this disparity. It highlights some of the reading choices and sources shared by a group o ... more

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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media

James E. Katz, Kate K. Mays (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 283 pp.

"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci ... more

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Design Thinking for Digital Wellbeing

Fiona C. Chambers, Anne Jones, Orla Murphy, Rachel Sandford

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xiii, 202 pp.

"Design Thinking for Digital Well-being empowers teacher educators/student teachers to teach pupils how to critically embrace technology in their lives. It provides a pedagogical framework for teaching young people to flourish in a digital society and enjoy digital well-being. In so doing, it establ ... more

Unpacking Social Media Use in Stabilization Efforts

Dianna E. Almanza, Victor Odundo Owuar

One Earth Future (2019), 2 pp.

"Social media use has provided access to entertainment, opportunities for a richer social life, and the ability to communicate with many others in a manner that was not possible just a few decades ago. In SSA, the convergence of homegrown ideas and collaboration with the international community has ... more

Jenseits der "Big three": Alternative Plattformen für Hassrede online

sCAN-Projektkonsortium (2019), 16 pp.

Mapeo y análisis de apps de monitoreo y seguridad para mujeres

Carla Bustos, Haydeé Quijano, Paul Aguilar

SOCIALTIC (2019), 34 pp.

Consejos de seguridad digital para medios de comunicación independientes

Derechos Digitales América Latina (2019), 9 pp.

Manual de seguridad digital: Kit de herramientas para una internet feminista

Larissa Saud

Málaga: ArsGames (2019), 12 pp.

Mobiltelefone in Afrika = Mobile Phones in Africa

Christine Hoffendahl

Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2019), 29 pp.

The State of ICT in Mozambique 2018

Alison Gillwald, Onkokame Mothobi, Broc Rademan

Research ICT Africa (2019), iv, 15 pp.

The State of ICT in In Kenya

Margaret Ndung'u Nyambura, Charley Lewis, Onkokame Mothobi

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2019), v, 41 pp.

Investigating Usage of Social Media Platforms in South Africa

Adheesh Budree, Katja Fietkiewicz, Elmar Lins

African Journal of Information Systems, volume 11, issue 4 (2019), pp. 314-336

"This study investigated the differences in usage of different social media platforms within the South African context, broken down by user characteristics, specifically gender and age, in addition to investigating the correlation between usage of differing social media platforms. This was carried o ... more

Social Media Consumption in Kenya: Trends and Practices

United States International University-Africa;Social Media Lab Africa (SIMElab) (2019), 73 pp.