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Online Privacy for Journalists: A Must-Have Guide for Journalism in 2017

Michael Dagan

vpnmentor.com (2017), 28 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.

"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: Internet Governance from the Edges. National and Regional IGFs in Their Own Words

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 87 pp.

"It is precisely to counterbalance what are largely “outsider” views in the main edition of Global Information Society Watch that we wanted this companion edition to capture the origin stories, achievements and challenges of National and Regional IGF Initiative (NRI) in their own words. Their st ... more

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Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility

Jolynna Sinanan

London: UCL Press (2017), xiv, 236 pp.

"Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwell ... more

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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective

Daniel Miller, Jolynna Sinanan

London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.

"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their ... more

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Children’s Online Activities, Risks and Safety: A Literature Review by the UKCCIS Evidence Group

Sonia Livingstone, Julia Davidson, Joanne Bryce et al.

London: UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS);London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017), 106 pp.

"Age is the key factor that differentiates among children’s online experiences, with gender also significant. One in ten children to one in five young teens say they encountered something worrying or nasty online in the past year. Children’s top worries are pornography and violence; they say the ... more

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Conceptual Evolution of the Digital Divide: A Systematic Review of the Literature Over a Period of Five Years (2010 – 2015)

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya

World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies (2017), pp. 41-74

"Throughout the last twenty years the digital divide – a multidimensional concept – has evolved in a manner that takes account of various technological, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural considerations. The objective of this study is to access recent conceptualizations of the t ... more

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Social Media Education Trainer's Manual: For Media Education Trainers

Magimai Pragasam (ed.)

Chennai: Signis Asia (2017), 172 pp.

"This publication is the result of two workshops. The first was held in March 2016, in Chennai, during which 14 scholars and media education specialists identified ten broad areas on which to build a lesson plan. The second workshop was in July 2016, in Sri Lanka with a similar group which continued ... more

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Who Governs the Internet? Players and Fields of Action

Henning Lahmann, Philipp Otto, Valie Djordjevic, Jana Maire

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2017), 42 pp.

"This publication recognizes the principle that “internet policy is social policy”. Accordingly, its core assumption is that internet governance concerns everybody. The stakes are high in today’s digital society. Equitable access to the internet; human and civil rights; the right to social, cu ... more

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Youtubers y otras especies: El fenómeno que ha cambiado la manera de entender los contenidos audiovisuales

Millán Berzosa

Madrid: Fundación Telefónica;Ariel (2017), 188 pp.

"[Este libro] acerca de manera amena al lector la realidad que hay detrás del éxito de YouTube, un fenómeno que ha transformado la manera de crear y consumir contenido audiovisual [...] Un libro que conecta con el ciclo ‘Youtubers, personas (y cintas de vídeo)’ realizado en el Espacio Fundac ... more

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The Potential of Social Media Intelligence to Improve People's Lives: Social Media Data for Good

Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young

Governance Lab (Govlab) (2017), 119 pp.

"In this report, developed with support from Facebook, we focus on an approach to extract public value from social media data that we believe holds the greatest potential: data collaboratives. Data collaboratives are an emerging form of public-private partnership in which actors from different secto ... more

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Measuring the Information Society Report 2017. Vol.1

Geneva: ITU (2017), xi, 154 pp.

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Neutralidad de red en América Latina: Reglamentación, aplicación de la ley y perspectivas: Los casos de Chile, Colombia, Brasil y México;Neutralidade de rede na América Latina: Regulamentação, aplicação da lei e perspectivas: Os casos do Chile, Colômbia, Brasil e México

São Paulo: Intervozes (2017), 177 pp.

"Sinteses de las recomendaciones: Incentivar la creación de tecnologías de evaluación del cumplimiento de la neutralidad de red en las capas lógica y de infraestructuras; Incentivar la creación de piezas procesuales de referencia para la creación de jurisprudencia, usando como base tanto el Ma ... more

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Tendências em comunicação digital. Volume 2

Elizabeth Saad, Stefanie C. Silveira et al.

São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Grupo de Pesquisa em Comunicação Digital COM (2017), 212 pp.

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ICT4D Playbook: A Guide for Peace Corps Staff and Volunteers on Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Gabriel Krieshok

Peace Corps (2017), 57 pp.

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The Arab World Online 2017: Digital Transformations and Societal Trends in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Fadi Salem

Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 61 pp.

"In this decade of digital transformation in the region, the Arab World stands at a critical juncture, where the internet is driving three interconnected waves of change: 1. A developmental juncture: The emergence of an online critical mass of 173 million interconnected people online today is creati ... more

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Digital Principles Into Practice

Dar es Salaam: Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) (2017), 15 pp.

"At HDIF, we want to share learning from our own experience to assist players in ICT4D to ensure we are not creating more stacks of unused hardware and limited viability which combine to create a larger wasteland of well-intended development projects. A broad set of donors and partners have combined ... more

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What if We All Governed the Internet? Advancing Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance

Anri van der Spuy

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 108 pp.

"The research in these pages covers the theory around multistakeholder participation in Internet governance through a review of relevant literature. It also analyses case studies from Kenya to Brazil, South Korea, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which illustrate how multistakeholder approac ... more

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Women's Pathways to the Digital Sector: Stories of Opportunities and Challenges

Panoply Digital

Bonn: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2017), 51 pp.

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Digital Media Literacy in Conflicts: The Increasing Role of Social Media in South Sudan

Anke Fiedler, Stephen Kovats

In: International Handbook of Media Literacy Education

Belinha S. De Abreu; Paul Mihailidis; Alice Y. L. Lee; Jad Melki; Julian McDougall (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 368-379

"In this chapter we have discussed a number of concrete strategies and practical examples on how to implement digital media literacy projects even in a difficult political and socio-cultural context like South Sudan. These are based in developing a holistic approach that considers citizen interactio ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs) Top Insights

Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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