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"From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital medi ... more

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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.

"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more

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Digital Blooms: Social Media and Violence in Sri Lanka

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute;Alliance for Peacebuilding (2018), 12 pp.

"The policy brief outlines key snapshots of Sri Lanka’s social media landscape as it stood at the time of writing, in early August 2018, and offers some recommendations aimed at civil society’s use of social media for conflict transformation." (Abstract)

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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization

Ralph Schroeder

London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 196 pp.

"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph ... more

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A Global Framework of Reference on Digital Literacy Skills for Indicator 4.4.2

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018), 146 pp.

"The objective of the Digital Literacy Global Framework (DLGF) project is to develop a methodology that can serve as the foundation for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) thematic Indicator 4.4.2: “Percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital lite ... more

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Mapping Study on Cyberviolence

Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY)

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2018), 151 pp.

"While cyberviolence may be targeted at any individual or group and may entail a wide range of acts, this mapping study focuses in particular on children and women, who are often the victims of cyberviolence. The experience and solutions with regard to these victims should modus modendi be applicabl ... more

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Donor Organizations and the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis

Björn Haßler, Meaghan Brugha, Chisenga Muyoya, Joel Mitchell, David Hollow, Alan Jackson

London: Jigsaw Consult (2018), 39 pp.

"This study engages with a comprehensive spectrum of stakeholders within the development and aid sectors around the role of digital, and the ideals that guide that role. The Principles for Digital Development, stewarded by Digital Impact Alliance, and the community of endorsers present a key forum f ... more

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A Toolkit for Researching Women’s Internet Access and Use

London: GSMA;Association for Progressive Communications (APC);World Wide Web Foundation;Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2018), 44 pp.

"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r ... more

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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
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Richard Heeks

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.

"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve ... more

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Better Connectivity, Better Programs: How to Implement a Broadband Demand Aggregation Program

USAID (2018), 43 pp.

"In 2012, some of the most expensive internet access service in the world was the only way humanitarian organizations could serve the world’s largest refugee community, Dadaab in Kenya. Even though it was founded twenty years earlier, internet access in Dadaab was still inadequate -- slow, ineffic ... more

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Das Kapital sind wir: Zur Kritik der digitalen Ökonomie

Timo Daum

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 268 pp.

"Dass die Digitalisierung die Wirtschaft grundlegend verändert, steht mittlerweile außer Frage. Die technischen Innovationen haben neue Geschäftsfelder eröffnet, neue Formen von Wertschöpfung ermöglicht und Grenzziehungen zwischen Produzenten und Konsumenten ins Wanken gebracht. Aber wie genau ... more

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Digitale Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

Jan van Loh

Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (2018), 245 pp.

"Seit das DSM 5 die »Internet Gambling Disorder« als Störungsbild unter Vorbehalt auswies, sind Medien erstmals in den Einzugsbereich therapeutischen Handelns gerückt. Da für Diagnostik und Therapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit medienbezogenen Störungen von analytischer und tiefenpsycholog ... more

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Competencias mediáticas en medios digitales emergentes

Ignacio Aguaded, Luis M. Romero Rodríguez (eds.)

Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2018), 229 pp.

"Competencias mediáticas en medios digitales emergentes aborda los asuntos más importantes que atraviesan los campos de estudios de la Comunicación o la Educación y en específico de las competencias mediáticas y digitales de la ciudadanía como capacidad de los individuos de desenvolverse en e ... more

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More Than Just Bitcoin: The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Using the Example of Latin America

Christian Hübner

KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 64-77

"Blockchain tehcnology (BT) can make a significant contribution to the future development of Latin America. It provides a robust alternative to weak state authorities in the fight for democratically legitimised laws and standards that have only been applied to a limited extent, or not at all. BT cou ... more

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Media Influence Matrix: Bulgaria. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Marius Dragomir, Mariia Altergot

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2018), 24 pp.

"Technology plays an important role for news media distribution in Bulgaria: 88% of Bulgarians get their news online, first and foremost on the online platforms of popular television channels and their social network pages. Bulgarians are some of the most active social media users in the EU (ranked ... more

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An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South

Richard Heeks, Satyarupa Shekhar

Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2018), 25 pp.

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3TH1CS: Die Ethik der digitalen Zeit

Philipp Otto, Eike Gräf (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 264 pp.

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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South

Jakob Svensson

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), 19 pp.

"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen ... more

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Digital News Report 2018

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 143 pp.

"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. Usage is down six percentage points in the United States, and is also down in the UK and France. Almost all of this is due to a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing o ... more

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