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Digital Modernity: Why we Need to Think Historically about the Digital Age
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiii, 205 pp.
"This is the first systematic theorization of digital modernity, arguing that the digital age cannot be understood apart from the long historical arc of modernity. Bridging digital humanities, critical theory, sociology, philosophy, and global history, Digital Modernity demonstrates that contemporar
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Toward AI Governance Alignment in Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye (AMET) Region
Global Center on AI Governance (GCG) (2026), 54 pp.
"The analysis begins by identifying the core “centric approaches” that guide Artificial Intelligence (AI) national strategies. These include security-anchored models driven by state control, innovation-led frameworks that prioritise competitiveness, rights-based regimes centred on fundamental pr
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Grounding Digitalization: Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 278 pp.
"Digitalization is usually perceived as an invisible process and its cultural embeddedness as well as its material, spatial, and environmental grounding are often neglected. However, digital technologies and transformations are shaped not only by cultural values, practices, and imaginaries, but also
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L' économie numérique au Tchad: état des lieux, opportunités et défis
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 149 pp.
"L’originalité de ce livre est d’aborder l’écosystème africain du numérique dans sa réalité complexe. Le cas spécifique du Tchad met en lumière tous les ressorts de l’inscription du numérique dans ce pays sahélien, pour valoriser le potentiel et porter les défis face aux contraint
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The Information Animal
La Vergne: C. Hurst and Company (2025), 314 pp.
"Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology’s ‘unprecedented’ threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have al
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on New Media, AI and Data Governance
Deep Insights
Paris: International Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), xxxvi, 265 pp.
"This report is an invitation to grapple with the complex interplay between infrastructure, media systems, civil society, and public sector institutions. Our findings suggest that effective policy solutions must: acknowledge the historical, political, economic, and social forces that shape informati
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Atlas der KI: Die materielle Wahrheit hinter den neuen Datenimperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 336 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz nur eine weitere Entwicklung der Digitalisierung des Alltags, eine effiziente Software in einer „Cloud“? Die KI-Forscherin Kate Crawford entlarvt diese verharmlosende Vorstellung und beleuchtet die konkreten Auswirkungen der Technologie auf die physische Welt. Ihre R
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El colapso de Babel: El fin del sueño de Internet
Madrid: Encuentro Ediciones (2025), 294 pp.
"En El colapso de Babel, el teólogo y experto en ética digital Paolo Benanti nos invita a reflexionar sobre el colapso de la utopía digital. En sus inicios y hasta su «explosión», el mundo de Internet prometía dar un nuevo rostro a toda la humanidad, a su forma de comunicarse, de presentarse
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The State of Knowledge on News Media, AI, and Data Governance
Göteborg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg; Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), 305 pp.
"A critical assessment of why today’s information ecosystems are troubling for democracy, this book, based on research in the Global North and Global Majority World, examines changes in news media, artificial intelligence, and data governance. It focuses on measures to improve the quality of publi
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Le Congo numérique en construction: Plaidoyer pour une structuration cohérente des infrastructures de connectivité
Brazzaville: L'Harmattan Brazzaville (2025), 138 pp.
"Dans cet ouvrage ambitieux, Max Bouhoyi dresse un état des lieux rigoureux des infrastructures numériques du Congo, en s'intéressant aux deux piliers de la connectivité : le segment spatial (satellites) et le segment maritime (câbles sous-marins et fibre optique). À travers une approche à la
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De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2025), ix, 524 pp.
"The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminological concepts, the book defines and further establishes a vibrant, rapidly developing field. Focus
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Intelligence artificielle et emploi en Afrique: Analyse des impacts de la digitalisation du travail
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 267 pp.
"Ce livre étudie les effets de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et de la digitalisation sur l’emploi en Afrique, en usant d’une méthodologie à deux articulations. D’une part, l’analyse des effets directs de l’IA : destruction d’emplois traditionnels dans des secteurs-clés (agricult
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Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South
Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2025), vi, 122 pp.
"With our modern world relying more and more on Internet-based technologies, this timely book takes a renewed look at the ever-increasing digital divide between developing and more technologically advanced countries and the resulting impacts on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Jef
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Parvenir à un développement numérique de la Guinée à l’horizon 2030: Stratégies - actions
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 163 pp.
"Ce livre est à la fois un diagnostic des politiques publiques antérieures du secteur de l’économie numérique du pays et un conteneur de solutions inductrices de changements axés sur des réformes structurelles pouvant permettre au pays de réussir sa transformation numérique. Cet ouvrage es
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Giving Thanks: Top 15 Digital Development Blogs Focused on LMICs
ICTworks, November 27 (2025)
"Analysis of the 15 most influential ICT4D blogs reveals three dominant meta-themes reshaping the field in the last few years. None of these topics should surprise long-term ICTworks readers: responsible AI deployment and governance; digital public infrastructure as foundational systems; critical po
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Die intelligente Täuschung: Über die Fähigkeiten Künstlicher Intelligenz
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 246 pp.
"Der Einzug von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in unser Leben wird gleichermaßen von Heils- und Unheilserwartungen begleitet: Die einen erhoffen sich Produktivitätssteigerungen, die anderen befürchten, dass Europa den Wettlauf mit den USA und China längst verloren hat. Autohersteller setzen auf a
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Atlas de Inteligencia Artificial para el Desarrollo Humano de América Latina y el Caribe
Deep Insights
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) (2025), 466 pp.
"La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) está reconfigurando las economías, las sociedades y la gobernanza en todo el mundo. En América Latina y el Caribe, el Atlas de IA para el Desarrollo Humano ofrece una guía estratégica para navegar esta transformación. El Atlas mapea el impacto de la IA en cuatr
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AI in Africa: A Landscape Study
Global Center on AI Governance; African Observatory on Responsible AI (2025), 44 pp.
"Though comprehensive AI regulation is still nascent in Africa, there is an increased focus on national AI strategies, ethical guidelines and international collaborations. Over 40 countries have already established data protection and privacy laws, creating opportunities for harmonised regulations a
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La era digital. Teoría del cambio de época: Persona, familia y sociedad
Madrid: Encuentro Ediciones (2024), 166 pp.
"La tecnología está transformando el mundo que nos rodea y a nosotros mismos: la Era Digital es la nueva era de la historia de la humanidad. ¿Cuáles son sus herramientas? ¿Cuáles son sus lenguajes? ¿Quién es el nuevo ser humano de la Era Digital? ¿Qué relación existe entre tecnología y c
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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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