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Communications, media and internet concentration in Turkey, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 54 pp.
"Turkey’s network media economy witnessed substantial growth between 2019 and 2021, especially in the wireless, digital music, digital games, and internet advertising sectors. All told, revenue increased sharply over this period from TRY 65.7 billion to TRY 95.1 billion. This, in turn, was nearly
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Communications, media and internet concentration in Chile, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 27 pp.
"Between 2019 and 2021, the combined income of all the sectors studied increased by 44%. The sector with the most significant percentage growth is internet advertising, impacting other traditional media industries (newspapers, radio, and television) which have experienced a decrease in relative mark
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The emergence of China's smart state
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), ix, 250 pp.
"China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more ass
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The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI – which is estimated to drive up the extraction of natural resources such as minerals, fossil fuels or water –
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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.
"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros
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The price of the world in your pocket: A price only some can afford. 2024 Device Pricing
Alexandria, VA: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 9 pp.
"The median price for a smartphone globally is US$92.59. The lowest regional median price is in Africa, at $60.23, while the highest is $101.88 in the Americas. The median global affordability (defined as price as a percentage of average monthly income) for a smartphone is 11%. Europe has the greate
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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The Mobile Economy Asia Pacific 2024
London: GSMA (2024), 50 pp.
Digital Economy Trends 2025
Digital Cooperation Organization (2024), 204 pp.
Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xxiv, 149 pp.
"The new series Digital Progress and Trends Report adopts a holistic framework of digitalization, with selective topics examined in depth in each edition. The framework [...] includes both the production and the adoption sides of digital technologies and their interactions. Box ES.1 explains how the
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Le prix des perturbations: Évaluation de l’impact économique des coupures d’Internet au Sénégal en 2023
Internews (2024), 25 pp.
"Ce rapport a constaté une baisse vertigineuse de 1,3 point de pourcentage du produit intérieur brut (PIB) global associé aux coupures d’Internet en juin 2023. Cela se traduit grosso modto par une perte de 76,8 millions de dollars américains (46,86 milliards de francs CFA). Cette perte a princ
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Digitale Ethik
Deep Insights
Baden-Baden: Nomos; Verlag Karl Alber (2024), 661 pp.
"Das neue umfassende Standardwerk für den Bereich der Digitalen Ethik. Das Handbuch verschafft einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen und Besonderheiten der Ethik im digitalen Raum und versammelt namhafte Expert:innen zu folgenden Themenfeldern: Theoretische Zugänge (Deontologische Ansätze,
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The Mobile Economy 2024
London: GSMA (2024), 47 pp.
The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2023
Deep Insights
London: GSMA (2023), 46 pp.
"Mobile connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to drive digital transformation and socioeconomic advancements. This underlines the need for continued efforts to address the persisting barriers that impact mobile internet adoption in the region, particularly the affordability of devices, online
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Digit@l China: Überwachungsdiktatur und technologische Avantgarde
München: Beck (2023), 190 pp.
"Mit parteistaatlicher Unterstützung avancierten die großen IT-Unternehmen Chinas seit Ende der 1990er Jahre schnell zu den Motoren der am dynamischsten wachsenden Digitalwirtschaft der Welt. Sie adaptierten zunächst Produkte und Geschäftsmodelle aus dem Ausland, gingen danach aber eigene Wege.
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The Mobile Economy Pacific Islands 2023
London: GSMA (2023), 44 pp.
"Mobile technologies underpin digital transformation in the Pacific Islands as authorities take steps to help economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and manage threats from climate change and natural disasters. Mobile is the first (in most cases only) form of internet connectivity for many con
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Huawei Knowledge Transfer in Africa: Corporate Communication and Users’ Responses on Social Networks
Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 77-99
"This article focuses on the launch by the Chinese company Huawei of ICT academies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Kenya especially. Existing literature shows contrasting findings concerning the impact of such formation and recruitment centres. Through high-level thematic and sentiment analyses, th
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Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs
Washington, DC: World Bank (2023), 202 pp.
