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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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ICT Effects & Impact
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Public Funding & Support Policies for Digitalisation
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Deepfakes (Realistic-Looking Media Content that has been Modified, Generated or Falsified Using AI)
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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China: Transnational Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
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Media Assistance: Elections
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Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Information Policies
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Comparative Approaches & Methods in Communication Research
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Ethnographic Research
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Interviewing (Journalistic Genre)
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Social Change
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Digital Television
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Technology Transfer
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
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"This study encompasses both quantitative and qualitative assessment: On the one hand, the more than 50 evaluated declarations, guidelines, and frameworks are briefly described in the given context; on the other hand, the issues contained in these documents are also qualitatively analyzed. In this, ... more
"Cette étude comprend une évaluation à la fois quantitative et qualitative : d’un côté, la cinquantaine de déclarations, directives et cadres évalués sont présentés brièvement dans le contexte donné; d’un autre côté, les questions contenues dans ces documents sont analysées d’un ... more
"The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has developed one of the most restrictive systems for the regulation of new media in Africa. So far, most discussion has focused on the measures employed by the EPRDF to prevent the Internet and mobile p ... more

Stakes Are High: Essays on Brazil and the Future of the Global Internet

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2014), 41 pp.
"This paper takes four key policy issues for protecting human rights online - net neutrality; an absence of arbitrary online filtering and blocking; an absence of arbitrary surveillance; and protecting intermediaries from liability for user-generated content. For each policy area it summarises the t ... more

Finding a Formula for Brazil: Representation and Legitimacy in Internet Governance

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2014), 29 pp.

Internet Policies: Online Child Protection and Empowerment in a Global Context

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
Dafna Lemish (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 395-402
"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid ... more

The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering ... more
"In the last few years, Russia has become an important player in the international internet governance debate, pushing for a governance model that is state-centric, hierarchical and based on the inviolability of state sovereignty. Russia has not only articulated an alternative model at forums like t ... more
"Über die politische Einschätzung und den Regelungsbedarf des Internets ist im Laufe seiner kurzen Geschichte weltweit schon viel und unterschiedlich debattiert worden. Wiederholt sind diverse Themen in den Vordergrund geschoben worden: etwa digital divide, Netzneutralität, Cyberkriminalität, Da ... more
"Advocates of Internet freedom need to develop more responses to cybercrime and online ethics to make sure that real concerns are not exploited by repressive governments to impose Internet controls and other measures, which violate the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of information. An i ... more
"Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more ef!cient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the ... more
"Die Forderung nach Sicherheit im Internet, besonders in Hinblick auf die persönlichen Daten, die Gewährung der Freiheit dieses Mediums ohne staatliche Eingriffe, die Diskussion um adäquate Formen des Urheberrechts und seiner Durchsetzung sowie eine Fokussierung auf die Risiken verbunden mit eine ... more

An Introduction to Internet Governance

Msida (MT); Geneva: DiploFoundation, 4th ed. (2010), 202 pp.
"An Introduction to Internet Governance provides a comprehensive overview of the main issues and actors in this fi eld. The book is written in a clear and accessible way, supplemented with numerous fi gures and illustrations. It focuses on technical, legal, economic, development, and sociocultural a ... more
"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