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The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies

Daria Gritsenko; Mariëlle Wijermars; Michail Vjaceslavovic Kopotev (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp., illustr., diagr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-42855-6 (pdf); 978-3-030-42854-9 (print) CC BY

"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in ... more

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Social Media Handbuch: Theorien, Methoden, Modelle und Praxis

Stefan Stumpp; Daniel Michelis; Thomas Schildhauer (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021) 4., aktual. und erw. Aufl., 402 pp., 81 illustr., 24 tables, index

ISBN 978-3-8487-6611-6 (print); 978-3-7489-0746-6 (pdf)

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National emergency telecommunications plans: enablers and safeguards. A brief evaluation guide for policy practitioners

Ken Okong'o

London: GSMA (2021), 16 pp.

"Section 1 focuses on creating an enabling environment. Mobile network operators (MNOs) operate in a regulated environment.5 However, if this environment is not sufficiently enabling to support disaster preparedness, response and recovery, MNOs will encounter challenges when disaster strikes. This s... more

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The Routledge companion to digital media and children

Lelia Green; Donell Holloway; Kylie Stevenson; Tama Leaver; Leslie Haddon (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp., illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-54434-5 (hbk); 978-1-351-00410-7 (ebook)

"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen... more

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The digital disconnect: the social causes and consequences of digital inequalities

Ellen Helsper

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2021), viii, 231 pp., bibliogr. p.195-223, index

ISBN 978-1-5264-6340-1 (pbk)

"Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and prac... more

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From digital divide to digital justice in the Global South: conceptualising adverse digital incorporation

Richard Heeks

Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2021)

"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de... more

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Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts

Stefanie Felsberger; Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.

ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)

"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse... more

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Understanding how young Cambodians (15-30 year olds) use media and information: key findings

BBC Media Action (2021), 6 pp.

"Social media is the most popular form of media, consumed by 87% of 15-30 year old Cambodians. Nevertheless, traditional mass media (television and radio) remain important, particularly for more vulnerable groups. For example, TV usage is higher amongst women, those from rural locations, and those f... more

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Gender approaches to cybersecurity: design, defence and response

Katharine Millar; James Shires; Tatiana Tropina

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) (2021), 70 pp.

"This report outlines the relevance of gender norms to cybersecurity. It draws on existing research, supplemented by stakeholder and expert interviews, to assess gender-based differences in the social roles and interaction of women, men and non-binary people of all ages reflected in the distribution... more

The digital Silk Road: China's quest to wire the world and win the future

Jonathan E. Hillman

New York, NY: Harper Business (2021), xiv, 351 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-06-304628-3 (hbk); 978-0-06-304629-0 (online)

Other Editions: London: Profile Books, 2022; German ed.: Kulmbach: Plassen Verlag, 2022

"China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data... more

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Cybersecurity primer: how to build cybersecurity into USAID programming

USAID; Digital Frontiers (2021), 65 pp., abbrev. p.5-6

"This Primer is intended to increase awareness and provide a basic understanding of cyber threats, cybersecurity, and cyber resilience as they relate to development programming for USAID staff. It does not provide specific cybersecurity programming or operational recommendations or address technical... more

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Policy brief and recommendations for an enabling environment for community networks in Brazil

Adriana Labardini Inzunza; Bruna Zanolli et al.

Association for Progressive Communication (APC) (2021)

ISBN 978-92-95113-47-3 CC BY

Other Editions: also published in Portuguese

"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f... more

Le digital au secours de l'Afrique: penser une économie numérique au service du développement

Sophonie Koboude

Éditions Anovi (2021), 116 pp.

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Digitalisierung aus theologischer und ethischer Perspektive: Konzeptionen - Anfragen - Impulse

Gotlind Ulshöfer; Peter G. Kirchschläger; Markus Huppenbauer (eds.)

Baden-Baden; Zürich: Nomos; Pano Verlag (2021), 310 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8487-8009-9 (print); 978-3-7489-2401-2 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"Es geht in diesem Band um die Fokussierung, Ethik und Religion als Teil von gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen zu verstehen, die insbesondere hinsichtlich Wirtschaft und Politik zu untersuchen sind. Da sich Gesellschaft heutzutage jedoch nicht mehr ohne Digitalisierung analysieren lässt, tritt für di... more

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Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2021

Geneva: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2021), iv, 26 pp.

ISBN 978-92-61-35401-5 (pdf)

"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi...llion people estimated to have come online since 2019. Internet penetration increased more than 20 per cent on average in Africa, in Asia and the Pacific, and in the UN-designated Least Developed Countries (LDCs). With most of the 17 Global Goals thrust sharply off-track by the force of the emergency, the pandemic has highlighted – and exacerbated – the crippling cost of digital exclusion. Achieving universal meaningful connectivity has become a matter of the utmost urgency if we are to meet the SDGs by the end of the decade. We cannot close the digital divide if we cannot measure it. And we cannot connect the unconnected if we do not know who they are, where they live, and why they remain offline – nor can we measure the success of our policies to bridge the gap . While the access divide is close to being bridged, with 95 per cent of the world’s population now living within range of a mobile broadband network, important blind spots remain. Close to 30 per cent of Africa’s rural population still lacks mobile broadband coverage. And even though the vast majority of the world’s people could access the Internet through mobile broadband, less than two thirds actually do. The statistics reveal a connectivity ‘grand canyon’ separating the digitally empowered from the digitally excluded, with 96 per cent of the 2.9 billion still offline living in the developing world. Drilling down to country level also affords a more nuanced picture. Location plays a big part: our figures reveal that the share of Internet users in urban areas is twice as high as in rural areas. There is also a generational gap – 71 per cent of the world’s population aged 15-24 is using the Internet, compared with 57 per cent of all other age groups. And gender remains a factor: globally, 62 per cent of men are using the Internet compared with 57 per cent of women. While that digital gender divide has been narrowing across all regions, women remain digitally marginalized in many of the world’s poorest countries, where online access could potentially have its most powerful effect." (Foreword) more

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The mobile gender gap report 2021

Isabelle Carboni et al.

London: GSMA (2021), 65 pp., many illustr., many graphs

"1. Women’s access to mobile internet continues to increase across low- and middle-income countries, while mobile ownership remains relatively flat: 83 per cent of women own a mobile phone and 58 per cent use mobile internet. Women are also more likely than men to access the internet exclusively o... more

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The state of mobile internet connectivity 2021

Anne Delaporte; Kalvin Bahia et al.

GSMA (2021), 66 pp., many illustr., many graphs, glossary p.66

"Six years ago, about a third of the world’s population were using mobile internet. Today, it is more than half. Despite this progress, the pandemic has highlighted how big gaps in connectivity persist, even in high-income markets. 3.8 billion people still do not have access to the internet – du... more

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Lie machines: how to save democracy from troll armies, deceitful robots, junk news operations, and political operatives

Philip N. Howard

New Haven; London: Yale University Press (2020), xviii, 221 pp., glossary p.171-174, bibliogr. p.185-200, index

ISBN 978-0-300-25020-6; 0-300-25020-7

"Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our... more

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Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research

Matthew L. Smith; Ruhiya Kristine Seward (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-262-53911-1 (pbk); 9781552505953 (ebook) CC BY

"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene... more

Connected: how a Mexican village built its own cell phone network

Roberto Jesús González

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp., glossary p.223-230, bibliogr. p.231-248, index

ISBN 978-0-520-34420-4 (hbk); 978-0-520-34421-1 (pbk); 978-0-520-97540-8 (ebook)

"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect... more

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The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies

Social Media Handbuch: Theorien, Methoden, Modelle und Praxis

National emergency telecommunications plans: enablers and safeguards. A brief evaluation guide for policy practitioners

The Routledge companion to digital media and children

The digital disconnect: the social causes and consequences of digital inequalities

From digital divide to digital justice in the Global South: conceptualising adverse digital incorporation

Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts

Understanding how young Cambodians (15-30 year olds) use media and information: key findings

Gender approaches to cybersecurity: design, defence and response

The digital Silk Road: China's quest to wire the world and win the future

Cybersecurity primer: how to build cybersecurity into USAID programming

Policy brief and recommendations for an enabling environment for community networks in Brazil

Le digital au secours de l'Afrique: penser une économie numérique au service du développement

Digitalisierung aus theologischer und ethischer Perspektive: Konzeptionen - Anfragen - Impulse

Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2021

The mobile gender gap report 2021

The state of mobile internet connectivity 2021

Lie machines: how to save democracy from troll armies, deceitful robots, junk news operations, and political operatives

Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research

Connected: how a Mexican village built its own cell phone network