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Guide to the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) Framework
Grahamstown; Oxford: African Journals Online (AJOL); International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2017), 10 pp.
"Journals in the developing world face challenges in becoming known and respected in the international research landscape. Since 1998 the Journals Online project has established a network of local journal platforms to help Southern journals gain an online presence and increase their global visibilit
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"This rapid evidence review examines adolescents’ access to and use of digital media (especially mobile phones and the internet), together with the associated digital skills and practices, opportunities and risks, and forms of safety mediation, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The revi
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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.
"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont
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Hands Off my Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries
World Development, volume 84 (2016), pp. 299-311
"Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it can threaten their political control. As a result, in the last two decades, 39 of the world’s 153 low- and middle-income countries have adopted la
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Digitalisation
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue April (2016), pp. 14-33
[...] , innovation enables developing economies to leapfrog technologies. Some former digital deserts have catapulted themselves into the information age. Landline telephony never reached the world’s poorer corners – even in the capital cities of developing countries. Mobile networks, however, s
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Guidebook Internet Governance: Media Freedom in a Connected World
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; iRights.Lab (2016), 39 pp.
"To many in the media, Internet governance seems to be an issue far removed from their daily life and work. This misconception can have substantial consequences. The Internet is fast becoming the infrastructure for all communications between media and citizens. If journalists and media freedom activ
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Last Mile Connectivity in Emerging Markets
Developing Telecoms (2016), 28 pp.
"This report focuses on the difficulties faced by operators in emerging markets looking to deliver data bandwidth cost effectively to challenging locations, including remote communities and busy cities. While the challenges are myriad, improvements in technology are increasingly making the business
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Emerging Markets Telecom Trends 2015
Developing Telecoms (2015), 48 pp.
Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice
Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.
"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks
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Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial
Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.
"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial
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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen
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The Media and Development
D+C: Development and Cooperation, volume 42, issue 1 (2015), pp. 10-29
"Democracy depends on a free press, independent TV and radio stations and controversy-rich online communication. Governments must therefore not only accept, but indeed facilitate independent journalism. Development agencies, moreover, can support the media in relevant ways. Donor institutions are di
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Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82
"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res
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Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), ix, 300 pp.
"Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer
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Ignorance is Bliss! Internet Usage and Perceptions of Corruption in a Panel of Developing Countries
International Journal of Communication, volume 8 (2014), pp. 2561-2577
"In a world of open-ended access to social media, the ability of governments to control information is slipping away. It is plausible in countries with limited Internet access for citizens to remain ignorant of the true amount of corruption. We built a cross-country panel of 124 developing nations t
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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp.
"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone
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The Global News Challenge: Market Strategies of International Broadcasting Organizations in Developing Countries
New York; London: Routledge (2013), xv, 188 pp.
"This book employs a global perspective to explore the subject across the whole population and different media platforms in select developing markets of Africa and South Asia. It is unique in providing a theoretical framework by which to analyze demand and usage of and trust in news from internation
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
[authors], 3rd ed. (2013), 495 pp.
