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Medienbildung und Teilhabegerechtigkeit: Impulse der Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung

Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2016), 30 pp.

"Eine umfassende Medienbildung ermöglicht es, die Prinzipien der katholischen Soziallehre auch in Bezug auf digitale Medien wahrzunehmen. Einzelne wie gesellschaftliche Gruppen können so zu einem souveränen Umgang mit Phänomenen der Digitalisierung wie mit digitalen Medien befähigt werden. Medi ... more

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Digital Access in Africa

Chris Locke, Jonathan Donner, Bryan Pon, Savita Bailur, Francis Hook, Ambacontributors Kak

Farnham (UK): Caribou Digital Publishing (2016), 60 pp.

"The mobile industry has, for the past 15 years or so, done a phenomenal job of connecting users in emerging markets to voice, SMS and Internet access services. But as we strive to reach the remaining unconnected users, we may need new models of connectivity to reach them. In the first section of th ... is document we discuss the need for new Internet access models, and ask the question of what we mean by “Internet Access” and why it’s important to understand what the impacts of limited service and capability are. We then move on to look at the barriers to scaling Internet access, and why, despite the availability and affordability of mobile phones, Internet access remains sub-scale. On the supply side, we discuss the issues around the costs of delivery access, and the difficulty of making connectivity affordable. Many attempts to reduce the cost have been tried, with varying levels of success. From Universal Service Funds delivered at a policy level, to zero-rated services from the private sector, it is important to understand the considerations around subsidizing access for poor or hard-to-reach users. The debate around this is nuanced, as the recent decision by the TRAI to ban Facebook Free Basics in India has shown. Supply side barriers are not easily solvable, and some mix of new industry business models and policy efforts to make regulation fit for purpose is required. Providing affordable—or free—Internet access will require negotiating the original principles of the Internet, the desire for an open and fair architecture, with the real costs of delivering this vision. From a user perspective, even when the available infrastructure enables connectivity, it doesn’t always drive adoption. Users require a reason to go online. A certain amount of this can be demand driven by access to essential government services, but a carrot as well as a stick is required. We have previously researched the digital lives of users in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, and have shown how users come online for non-instrumental reasons (social media, games, etc.) but then often use these platforms for instrumental activities such as self-directed education, searching for employment, or sourcing essential information.3 User research can show us how these needs can be balanced, and we discuss this within this report." (Introduction, page 4-5) more

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2015, 70/125: Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

United Nations, General Assembly (2016), 14 pp.

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Bolivia digital: 15 miradas acerca de internet y sociedad en Bolivia

Eliana Quiroz Gutiérrez (coord.)

La Paz: Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia; Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) (2016), 536 pp.

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Smartphones

Paul A. Soukup

Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39

"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their ... communicative purposes, whether these be talking, surfing the web, using on-line data access for off-site data sources, downloading or uploading materials, or any kind of interaction with social media. They focus not so much on the smartphone itself but on the activities that people engage in with their smartphones. Though most communication research examines on individual and group usage of smartphones, a few people outside of the more technical journals and books have sketched—at least in overview form—the key factors for smartphone success, what Goggin and Hjorth (2014b) identify as infrastructure, economics, and policy. Apart from the manufacture of the handsets, smartphones require an infrastructure of telecommunications operators, with systems across the world divided between national telecommunication services and competing privately owned companies (Curwen & Whalley, 2014; Feijóo, 2014). Secondly, smartphones depend upon both formal and informal economies, from the manufacture and sale of the phones themselves to the production and sale of the apps to the revenues supporting particular app services (music sales, data storage, on-demand services, and so on) (Lobato & Thomas, 2014). Goldsmith (2014) adds a bit of detail, describing an app ecosystem: “Each ecosystem consists of a core company, which creates and maintains a platform and an app marketplace, plus small and large companies that produce apps and/or mobile devices for that platform” (p. 171). Finally, both manufacturers and operators must negotiate agreed-on technical specifications for voice and data transmission, specifications that governments must approve both locally and perhaps in cross-border treaty agreements (Middleton, 2014). These factors lead to a more complex view of smartphones: not only do they function as communication devices and embodiments of technical negotiations, but they also take on identities as symbols of economic and cultural systems, as “moral objects” (whose value justifies their purchase price), as fashion accessories, and as lifestyle supports (Koskinen, 2012, p. 225)." (Introduction, pages 3-4) more

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Die Explosion des Wissens: Von der Encyclopédie bis Wikipedia

Peter Burke

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 384 pp.

"Die öffentliche Diskussion über das Wissen wird täglich und in allen Medien geführt: Was wissen wir, was weiß man über uns, und wie können wir die Hoheit über dieses Wissen behalten oder zurückerlangen? Wieso bemühen wir heute, wenn wir etwas wissen wollen, eine Suchmaschine? Warum werden ... more

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Analog ist das neue Bio: Ein Plädoyer für eine menschliche digitale Welt

André Wilkens

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 224 pp.

"Kaum ein Ort der Erde, der nicht digital vermessen oder erfasst ist, kaum ein Lebensbereich ohne digitale Steuerung, Erleichterung und Optimierung. Die Schattenseite der Digitalisierung bestehe, so Andre Wilkens, in ihrem Potenzial zur Erfassung, Kontrolle und Manipulation. Er stellt in diesem Buch ... more

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Theories of the Information Society

Frank Webster

London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2014), xii, 404 pp.

"Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information Soci ... more

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Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies

Carolin Wiedemann, Soenke Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Insittute of Network Cultures (2012), 192 pp.

"Eager to assist, organize, and structure our lifestream logistics, new corporate actors offer communicative freedoms based on commercial user-as-product philosophies of expression. But we now design our own interfaces to face our others, our algorithmic others. Our collective reflection on nature a ... more

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Internet: Segen oder Fluch

Kathrin Passig, Sascha Lobo

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2012), 315 pp.

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know

Tom Chatfield

Quercus (2011), 208 pp.

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Nerd Attack! Eine Geschichte der digitalen Welt vom C64 bis zu Twitter und Facebook

Christian Stöcker

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 319 pp.

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IT Sector Promotion in Developing and Emerging Countries: Manual

Lucas von Zallinger et al.

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Sector Project Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) (2011), 123 pp.

"The manual and the toolbox seek to address the following question: how to maximise the contribution of the IT industry in developing and emerging countries towards sustainable economic development and poverty reduction? In order to achieve this, the Manual analyses the obstacles impeding the compet ... more

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Media Convergence

Tim Dwyer

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2010), xvi, 200 pp.

"The process of ‘media convergence’ has far broader policy implications for ownership and audience access to diverse information. Dwyer critically analyses the political, economic, cultural, social, and technological factors that are shaping these changing media practices. There are examples of ... more

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Monitoring the WSIS Targets: A Mid-Term Review

Geneva: ITU (2010), xxxvi, 217 pp.

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Pensar los medios en la era digital: Iberoamérica frente al desafío de la convergencia

Adrian Miranda, Gabriel Santagata, Ana Guérin (eds.)

Buenos Aires: La Crujía (2010), 364 pp.

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Digital Solidarities, Communication Policy and Multi-Stakeholder Global Governance: The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society

Marc Raboy, Normand Landry, Jeremy Shtern

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2010), xvii, 281 pp.

"Examines the actors, structures and themes that shaped the WSIS with a particular focus on the role played by civil society. The book investigates how civil society self-organization has continued post-WSIS through the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and other policymaking venues, and reflects on w ... more

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Guide to the Digital Switchover
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Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Andrei Richter

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010), 120 pp.

"If carried out properly, the digital switchover can safeguard human rights, including freedom of the media and the right to access information. If all parties involved in the process co-operate, including broadcasters, producers, resellers and consumer associations, the result is a media landscape ... more

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Medienwandel durch Digitalisierung und Krise: Eine vergleichende Analyse zwischen Russland und Deutschland

Mike Friedrichsen, Jens Wendland, Galina Woronenkowa (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2010), 216 pp.

"Das durch die Digitalisierung mögliche Zusammenwachsen der Medien – z.B. von Fernsehen und Internet – hat ein wesentliches und entscheidendes Merkmal hervorgebracht: die Interaktivität. Mit neuen Medienformaten und Distributionskanälen wird interaktiver Medienkonsum möglich und bietet den K ... more

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Guide to the Digital Switchover
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