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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.
"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b
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Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level
Information Development, volume 39, issue 1 (2023), pp. 107-122
"This study aims to examine the impact of Internet development on the urban-rural income gap in China. By using a provincial level panel dataset comprising 31 of China’s provinces, it analyzes and compares the effects of the eastern, central, and western regions over the period of 2005–2016. The
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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Critical Gaps and Implications of Risk Communication in the Global Agreements SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC: 3 Select Case Studies from Urban Areas of Tropics in South Asia
Natural Hazards, issue 111 (2022), pp. 2559-2577
"There has been a consistent rise in urban disasters, particularly in developing countries located in tropical areas. Among various challenges of disaster risk management and climate change impacts, it is noted that most residents are poorly informed about their risk exposure or apposite response. T
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La radio en Bucaramanga: Vidas y sonidos de ciudad ...
[author] (2022), 153 pp.
"Este libro se lee con mucha facilidad y nos describe con gran amplitud y rigurosidad investigativa ese paisaje mediático de la ciudad, donde conviven la expresión pública, la comercial y la comunitaria. Es un texto que nos cuenta que la radio sigue vigente y muy presente en la vida de la gente,
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Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality
London: Pluto Press (2022), xiii, 194 pp.
"Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and
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Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below
New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xiv, 184 pp.
"The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing
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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri
Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.
"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of
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The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xviii, 488 pp.
"The Routledge companion to urban media and communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within medi
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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2020), xi, 270 pp.
"Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements. Throu
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Netflix y su crecimiento explosivo en Lima metropolitana
Lima: CPI (2019), 3 pp.
"La primera vez que CPI midió la presencia de Netflix en los hogares, fue en el 2017, logrando una penetración de 17,4% en Lima metropolitana. Al año siguiente, 2018, Netflix experimentó un crecimiento de 62% con una penetración de 28,2%. Durante el presente año, según nuestra última medici
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Catalysing Social Change in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Evaluating the LIN Model of Participatory Community Development
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 3 (2019), pp. 519-540
"In communication for social change, a catalyst can play an important role in creating dialogue within the community, leading to collective actions and providing solutions for common problems. In urban communities of developing countries, this role is more essential because of the complexities of ur
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Numérique, espaces et sociétés en Afrique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 403 pp.
Lima digital
Lima: CPI (2019), 4 pp.
"Ocho de cada diez personas en Lima tienen por lo menos una cuenta en una red social." (Página 1)
Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373
"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r
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