"This report highlights the latest ICT developments in the region and includes key statistical information for every country. It features a regional analysis of the ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket, two ICT benchmarking tools that were launched in March 2009. The report point
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s to key policy issues in the region and provides concrete recommendations for policy makers." (Foreword)
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"This guide has been written for people in the UK public sector delivering online digital services who wish to research their audiences. Although it is focused on online digital services, it will also be useful for researching audiences reached via other channels. It is primarily aimed at non-expert
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s who do not have market research skills themselves, and who do not have access to dedicated market research teams. It is therefore likely to be most useful for people in small organisations / services, or those conducting small projects in larger organisations. It may also be useful for people procuring services who want to know what guidelines to provide, and for those setting policies." (Introduction, page 6)
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"The internet in the Arab World: Egypt and beyond is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the internet and its uses and effects in Egypt and the Arab world. Tackling the issue in a systematic, scientific manner, this book also examines Islamic online communic
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ations, online censorship, and internet use by the civic society as an alternative channel for its mostly oppressed voices." (Back cover)
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"[...] This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practices of Internet users, journalists, demonstrators and producers of reality TV, it explores the interface between public interaction
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over the airwaves, at the polls and on the streets. A lively group of contributors explores such issues as whether young people are served well by new media, whether blogging is an influential political tool, whether satellite news helps or hinders diasporic communities politically, and much more." (Publisher description)
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"Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journ
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ey through the lives of women, youth, and Islamist Internet users, and through their testimonies shows what the Internet means to various Internet subcultures in the emirate. The book includes a historical overview of the values and design principles embedded in the Internet by its inventors and early adopters, and examines the major questions, debates, assumptions, and findings of the emerging field of Internet studies. Drawing on six years of research, including three years of fieldwork in Kuwait, Dubai, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, Wheeler provides a comparative overview of the meaning and manifestations of the Internet in the Middle East, giving careful attention to whether or not the Internet lives up to global expectations of promoting democracy, economic privatization, and personal freedom." (Publisher description)
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"Das Lehrbuch bietet eine aktuelle und verständliche Einführung in die verschiedenen Bereiche der Medienpsychologie. Neben den Grundlagen einer Medienpsychologie werden einschlägige Forschungsmethoden vorgestellt. Die spezifischen Anwendungsfelder schließen sowohl Einsatzgebiete der "klassischen
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" Medien als auch der neuen Medien ein. Im Lehrbuch werden zunächst die Grundlagen einer empirischen Medienpsychologie dargestellt, z.B. die Schlüsselkonzepte der Mediennutzung und Medienwirkung sowie der Medienkompetenz, aber auch kognitions-, emotions-, entwicklungs-, persönlichkeits- und sozialpsychologische Theorien. Weiterhin wird über die für dieses Fachgebiet spezifisch relevanten Forschungsmethoden informiert. Die Breite und Vielschichtigkeit der Forschungsfelder der modernen Medienpsychologie wird im dritten Teil des Lehrbuches deutlich. Hier vermitteln Beiträge aus dem Bereich der "klassischen" Medien als auch der neueren computerbasierten und interaktiven Medien einen umfassenden Eindruck vom breiten Spektrum der Aufgabenfelder. Themen sind z.B. Lesen, Fernsehnutzung und -wirkung, Infotainment und Edutainment, Unterhaltung, Werbung, computervermittelte Kommunikation, E-Learning und netzbasierte Wissenskommunikation, Computer- und Videospiele sowie die sozio-emotionale Dimension des Internet." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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