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Digital Innovation Profile Montenegro

Geneva: ITU (2020), vii, 23 pp.

"The three main ecosystems fundamental to the Montenegro digital transformation journey are the national innovation ecosystem, the entrepreneur ecosystem, and the technology ecosystem. These three ecosystems interlink closely to form the innovation landscape, from ideation to market. Each ecosystem ... more

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Assessing Internet Development in Brazil: Using UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM-X Indicators

Paris: UNESCO;Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br);Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) (2019), 197 pp.

"The development of the national environment of the Internet in Brazil is strong and positive, and in line with international standards when considering the regulatory framework. However, there are enforcement problems in some areas and significant shortcomings in access and connectivity for citizen ... more

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Evaluando el desarrollo de Internet en Argentina: Utilizando los indicadores ROAM-X de Universalidad de Internet de la UNESCO

Carolina Caeiro, Delfina Ferracutti, Maria Fernanda Martínez, Ivan Kirschbaum, Juan Ortiz

Paris; Montevideo: UNESCO (2019), 275 pp.

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Social Media and Social Change in Jordan: Opportunities and Threats

Diana Ishaqat

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 10 pp.

"The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has great humanitarian responsibilities towards a war-torn region. Deliberately referred to as a regional entrepreneurship hub, over eight million of Jordan’s citizens (86.4%) have access to the internet, and they produce more than half of the digital content avail ... more

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Digital Asia

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 40 pp.

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Enabling the Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Policy Reforms?

Jose Lopez-Calix, Michel Rogy et al.

World Bank Group (2017), 61 pp.

"I am glad to introduce the third edition of a series of reports aimed at discussing macroeconomic developments in the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. This series intends to foster public debates on key macroeconomic and fiscal policy options in support of poverty reduction. ... more

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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia

Larissa Hjorth, Olivia Khoo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.

"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever ... more

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Social Media in China: Wie deutsche Unternehmen soziale Medien im Chinesischen Markt erfolgreich nutzen können

Yinyuan Liu

Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler (2016), xv, 235 pp.

"Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über die chinesische Social-Media-Landschaft sowie die Besonderheiten und Trends des Social Media Marketing in China. Der Autor beschreibt, welche sozialen Medien in China genutzt werden, wo Statistiken darüber zu finden sind, welche Hauptfunktionen die wichtig ... more

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Una alucinación consensual: Redes sociales, cultura y socialización en internet

Nelson Manrique

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Fondo Editorial (2016), 335 pp.

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Online Media Overview: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia

Laurent Giacobino

Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2015), 27 pp.

"This document is an abridged version of a wide-ranging survey conducted between July 2014 and January 2015, which attempts to provide an overall view of the complex, ever-changing and fluid landscape of the online media in the Arab world. It is based on over 45 in-depth interviews, 130 applications ... more

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Centroamérica, democracia desconectada: Balance regional de un ecosistema digital enfrentado con la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la comunicación

Andrea Cristancho, Carlos Augusto Barrera Cuesta, Juan Carlos Sánchez Mejía et al.

San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2015), 300 pp.

"No existe duda alguna que el desarrollo de las TIC representa una oportunidad indiscutible para el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la comunicación, pues permiten que la ciudadanía tenga un rol protagónico en el desarrollo de los procesos de comunicación e incidencia en las ... more

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Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything

Liz Carter

London: Tauris (2015), 212 pp.

"Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and ... more

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Social Media and Their Use by Albanian Media

Tirana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Albanian Media Institute (2015), 52 pp.

"This study takes it upon itself to present a general overview of the development of online media and social media in Albania, focusing particularly on how professional media outlets use social media. The empirical research focused on monitoring the most widely used social media in Albania, such as ... more

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Digital Russia: The language, culture and politics of new media communication

Michael S. Gorham, Ingunn Lunde, Martin Paulsen (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xix, 292 pp.

"Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have ... more

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The Social Media Landscape in Nigeria

africapractice (2014), 32 pp.

"This report is the 1st of future analysis, which aims to highlight the personalities and the platforms that are the most impactful through the quality of content and material ( not just the most popular but the most reliable, forward thinking, social media bodies that are in*uencing the landscape w ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Indonesia

Kuskridho Ambardi, Gilang Parahita, Lisa Lindawati, Adam Sukarno, Nella Aprilia

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2014), 92 pp.

"The emergence of digital media in Indonesia coincided with the country’s transition to democracy beginning in 1998. In some ways, digitization has catalyzed the development of diverse and independent media. Market reforms in favor of liberalization have gone hand in hand with convergence and prol ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Malaysia

Jo-Ann Ding, Lay Chin Koh, Jacqueline Ann Surin

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 120 pp.

"Two out of three Malaysians regularly use the internet (even though large areas of the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, where nearly a fifth of the population lives, pose logistical challenges regarding infrastructure) and a third of the population have a 3G mobile subscription. Broadban ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Bulgaria

Vesislava Antonova, Andrian Georgiev

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 92 pp.

"After a significant delay, the transition to digital terrestrial broadcasting in Bulgaria is scheduled to be finished in 2013. While cable television appears to have peaked since 2007, satellite television continues to increase its penetration, more often through bundled services. On the other hand ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Kenya

George Nyabuga, Nancy Booker

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 94 pp.

"In online journalism, the virtues associated with ethics—accuracy, honesty, truth, impartiality, fairness, balance, respect for autonomy of ordinary people—are barely respected, largely because there is no effective way of policing this, and there are no legal penalties. Concentration of owners ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Brazil

Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Joana Varon

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 134 pp.

"Digitization has had profound effects in Brazil. In journalism, information flows faster than ever, and from a greater number of sources; journalists have to adapt to an environment that demands immediate coverage of events, sometimes privileging speed over content. The internet has become the seco ... more