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A taxonomy of internet shutdowns: the technologies behind network interference
Access Now
(2022), 45 pp., glossary p.39-45
"In this paper, we outline each of the various technical mechanisms for implementing a shutdown, and the options for mitigating each type. Our hope is that technologists and civil society groups working to end shutdowns will find this a useful technical resource to understand, prepare for, circumven...
Digital platform regulation: global perspectives on internet governance
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022), xvii, 319 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-030-95220-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-95219-8 (print)
CC BY
"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 ...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2022
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2022), iv, 26 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-37011-5 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-SA
"As the world welcomes its 8 billionth inhabitant, an estimated 5.3 billion people – roughly 66 per cent of the global population – are using the Internet. Yet some 2.7 billion people worldwide remain totally offline, with universal connectivity still a distant prospect in least developed countr...
Künstliche Intelligenz: so lässt sie sich nachhaltiger gestalten
Berlin:
Algorithm Watch; Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (iöw); DAI-Labor
(2022), 58 pp.
"Eine Zahl taucht immer wieder in der Diskussion zur Nachhaltigkeit von KI auf: Die Emissionen, die in der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsphase großer Sprachmodelle anfallen, entsprechen den Emissionen von fünf Autos während ihrer gesamten Laufzeit. Diese Zahl stammt aus einer wegweisenden Analyse v...
Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit: Medienpraktiken für ein gutes Leben
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2022), xi, 277 pp., bibliogr. p.241-277
ISBN 978-3-658-36166-2 (print); 978-3-658-36167-9 (ebook)
CC BY
Other Editions: Habilitation Universität Bremen, 2020
"Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen Folgen aktueller Digitalisierungsprozesse und zeigt anhand dreier Fallstudien...
Digital inequality beyond the digital divide: conceptualizing adverse digital incorporation in the global South
Information technology for development, volume (2022), 17 pp.
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi...
At the confluence of digital rights and climate & environmental justice: a landscape review
Engine Room; Ford Foundation; Ariadne; Mozilla Foundation
(2022), 90 pp.
"The aim of this report is to provide a landscape scan of how an extremely diverse set of communities and movements are working at intersections of technology, digital rights, environmental justice and climate justice. The report’s primary audiences are grantmakers and practitioners working in or ...
Government internet shutdowns are changing: how should citizens and democracies respond?
Washington, DC:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(2022), 45 pp.
"The most promising strategies to help citizens circumvent internet shutdowns do not involve deploying satellite internet devices or floating balloons. Instead, simpler solutions, such as encouraging citizens to download anticensorship apps or software ahead of time, are much more useful. But they d...
Atlas der digitalen Arbeit: Daten und Fakten über die Beschäftigung der Zukunft
Berlin; Düsseldorf:
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund; Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
(2022), 54 pp.
"Der Atlas der digitalen Arbeit blickt auf viele verschiedene Branchen: Auto, Chemie und Pharma, aber auch die Pflege und die öffentliche Hand. Es geht um grundlegende Fragen: Wie weit sind smarte Computer und Roboter in diesen Bereichen auf dem Vormarsch? Welche Folgen hat das für die Beschäftig...
Artificial communication: how algorithms produce social intelligence
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press
(2022), xiv, 184 pp., bibliogr. p.147-180, index
ISBN 978-0-262-04666-4 (hardcover)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we h...
Digital Africa: how Big Tech and African startups are reshaping the continent
Hamburg:
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
(2022), 13 pp.
"In summary, digitalisation is gaining momentum in Africa as the continent experiences significant improvements in its digital infrastructure and a vibrant startup ecosystem. To harness this momentum across society, African governments and their partners will need to strike the right balance between...
Revisiting digital inclusion: a survey of theory, measurement and recent research
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Manchester:
Centre for Digital Development
(2022), 50 pp., bibliogr. p.42-50
"Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/us...
The digital disconnect: the social causes and consequences of digital inequalities
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...
Social Media Handbuch: Theorien, Methoden, Modelle und Praxis
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)
The digital Silk Road: China's quest to wire the world and win the future
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...
National emergency telecommunications plans: enablers and safeguards. A brief evaluation guide for policy practitioners
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...
Digitally empowered generation equality: women, girls and ICT in the context of COVID-19 in selected Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU); UN Women
(2021), vi, 90 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-33301-0
CC BY-NC-SA
"This report focuses on women and girls using, studying and working in digital technology in five Western Balkan States (Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) and three Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Georgia, and Republic of Moldova). On the su...
The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies
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 ...
Mozilla Fellowships and Awards Program: evaluation and impact narrative. An evaluation of Mozilla’s Fellowships & Awards program strategy and impact from the beginning of 2016 through mid-2020
Mozilla Foundation
(2021), 128 pp.
"This evaluation is an analysis of the Mozilla Foundation’s grantmaking and fellowship work led by the F&A team from the beginning of 2016 through mid-2020. It seeks to understand: 1) the impacts of the programs on individual funding recipients and organizational partners, on the issues the progra...
From digital divide to digital justice in the Global South: conceptualising adverse digital incorporation
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...
