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Digital Infrastructure Investment Initiative: Closing the digital infrastructure investment gap by 2030

Geneva: ITU (2025), vi, 37 pp.

"This white paper summarizes the outcomes of the initial phase of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Initiative (DIII), launched in 2024 by the ITU in collaboration with the International and Regional Development Finance community, and in coordi ... nation with the G20 Brazil Presidency. The initiative also benefitted from the advice and feedback of over 40 organizations who comprised the DIII Working Group. The aims of the DIII in its initial stage are: i) Understand the digital infrastructure investment gap and opportunity: Despite the increase in internet usage in recent years, 35% of the global population does not use the internet at sufficient speeds. This percentage increases to 54% in low and lower-middle-income countries, primarily due to the absence of necessary infrastructure. Developing this infrastructure is estimated to require at least USD 1.6 trillion, according to high-level calculations by the DIII. ii) Develop a framework that describes the key areas that need to be addressed to increase investment and measure a country’s digital infrastructure investment readiness: By exploring the factors affecting investments, the DIII has identified five archetypal challenges that hinder investments in digital infrastructure. These challenges are demand fragmentation, significant gaps in core infrastructure, unclear digital agendas and policies, execution risks, and country risks. The presence and significance of these challenges depend on the context. iii) Identify innovative financing mechanisms and instruments that international organizations and private or public plurilateral/multilateral financing institutions can implement to accelerate reaching the target of universal and meaningful connectivity by 2030: Closing the digital infrastructure investment gap will necessitate the identification and deployment of innovative financing mechanisms and instruments. Through a series of discussions, the DIII has identified a range of initiatives, including platforms for pooled digital investments and technical forums designed to enhance coordination and share best practices. Detailed in the report, these initiatives aim to enable stakeholders to improve coordination and collaboratively finance infrastructure projects. With this document, the initiative aims to inspire multistakeholder solutions through innovative financing of digital infrastructure, moving toward the goal of providing universal, meaningful connectivity to the 2.6 billion unconnected individuals across the world by 2030." (Executive summary) more

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The Handbook on Religion and Communication
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Yoel Cohen, Paul A. Soukup (eds.)

Newark: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 571 pp.

"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and ... more

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Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance

Terry Flew, Fiona R. Martin (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 319 pp.

"Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has in recent years moved to the forefront of policy debate. In the wake of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the global 'techlash' against digital monopolies, platform studies are undergoing a ... more

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A Missional Study of the Use of Social Media (Facebook) by Some Ghanaian Pentecostal Pastors

P. White, F. Tella, M. D. Ampofo

KOERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, volume 81, issue 2 (2016), 8 pp.

"Social media as a new phenomenon has become a tool used by many televangelists and pastors all over the world. It is against this background that this research sought to explore the Facebook activities of some Ghanaian Pentecostal pastors from a missional perspective. The article deals with the con ... more

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The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis

John Scott (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (2011), xvi, 622 pp.

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Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture

Jolyon P. Mitchell, Sophia Marriage (eds.)

London; New York: T&T Clark (2003), xv, 407 pp.

"This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way. Some of the to ... more

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SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners. Vol. 1: A Comparative Overview of the Laws and Practice in Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Khahliso Mochaba, Carla Raffinetti, Sheetal Vallabh, Justine White

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2003), xii, 144 pp.

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Telling Their Stories: Child Rights, Exploitation and the Media: Guidelines for Journalists and Media Professionals

Jane Worthington, Jacqueline Park (eds.)

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2003), 48 pp.

"The critical issue is to raise awareness among journalists. There needs to be an awareness of child rights generally but as journalists we must also understand the consequences of our reporting. The way media portray children impacts not only on society’s attitude to children; it also influences ... more

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Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills. International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis

Yael Danieli (ed.)

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2002), xiv, 429 pp.

"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrat ... more

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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.

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Critical Issues in Communication: Looking Inward for Answers. Essays in Honour of K. E. Eapen

Srinivas R. Melkote, Sandhya Rao (eds.)

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New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2001), 491 pp.

"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher description)

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Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research

Ingunn Hagen, Janet Wasko (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2000), vi, 330 pp.

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Pastoral Planning for Social Communication

Victor Sunderaj (ed.)

John P. Foley (foreword)

Québec: Paulines (1998), 174 pp.

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Teoría y praxis de la iglesia latinoamericana en comunicaciones sociales (25 años después de ínter Mirifica)

Pedro Briseño Chávez (coord.)

Bogotá: Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM) (1988), 426 pp.

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The Press of Africa: Persecution and Perseverance

Frank Barton

London; Basingstoke: Macmillan (1979), xi, 304 pp.

"As political freedom came to the Continent, so did press freedom disappear," is Barton's opening sentence. Although his attitude is definitely colonial, this statement is not as prejudiced as it first appears, for he attempts to put it in a historical perspective by making the case that this trend ... more

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