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Global Digital Data Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Global Digital Data Governance

This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a polycentric approach, allowing readers to consider the issue across multiple disciplines and scales. Polycentrism, this book argues, provides a set of lenses that tie together the variety of actors, issues, and processes intertwined in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and glo...

World trends in freedom of expression and media development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

World trends in freedom of expression and media development

In the face of such challenges, this new volume in the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series offers a critical analysis of new trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists.

Who She Was
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Who She Was

Nearly 30 years after his mother died at age 50, the acclaimed author of "JewVs. Jew" set out to discover everything he could about her lost life. This isthe poignant, unflinching chronicle of what he found.

Public Access ICT Across Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 491

Public Access ICT Across Cultures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-08
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

A systematic assessment of the impact of public access to computers and the Internet, with findings from developing countries in South America, Asia, and Africa. Shared public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries is often hailed as an effective, low-cost way to share the benefits of digital technology. Yet research on the economic and social effects of public access to computers is lacking. This volume offers the first systematic assessment of the impact of shared public access in the developing world, with findings from ten countries in South America, Asia, and Africa. It provides evidence that the benefits of diversified participation in digital society go beyond pr...

The Media in the Network Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 562

The Media in the Network Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

In the Network Society the development of a new communicational model has been taking shape. A communicational model characterized by the fusion of interpersonal communication and mass communication, connecting audiences and broadcasters under a hypertextual matrix linking several media devices. The Networked Communication model is the informational societies communication model. A model that must be understood also in its needed literacies for building our media diets, media matrixes and on how it's changing the way autonomy is managed and citizenship exercised in the Information Age. In this book Gustavo Cardoso develops an analysis that, focusing on the last decade, takes us from Europe to North America and from South America to Asia, combining under the framework of the Network Society a broad range of scientific perspectives from Media Studies to Political Science and Social Movements theory to Sociology of Communication.

Consumer Culture in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Consumer Culture in Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to buying cell phones, this collection brings together original research on some of the many forms of consumption and consumers that contribute to Latin American cultures and histories. Contributors include sociologists, anthropologists, media and cultural studies scholars, geographers and historians, showcasing diverse approaches to understanding Latin American consumption practices and consumer culture.

Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Each year the IGF Secretariat produces a book to provide a concise yet comprehensive summary of the proceedings that take place at the annual global IGF gatherings. Included herewith are edited transcripts of all of the main sessions that took place over the four days in Baku and the reports of the workshops and other events that were submitted appropriately. The theme of the forum for the seventh meeting was 'Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development'. As per standard IGF practice, the entire meeting was webcasted and the possibility of remote participation was offered, which doubled the active participation in both main sessions and workshops and other events throughout the week. Real time transcription was also available to enhance the participatory experience for those present in Baku and around the world.

Smart Ports and Robotic Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Smart Ports and Robotic Systems

This book provides a comprehensive overview of smart ports and remote technologies in the maritime industry. It demonstrates how modern advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have transformed the shipping industry, and assesses the impact of this technology from a law and governance standpoint. The book covers a range of topics including port autonomous operations systems, cybersecurity, big data analytics, digitalization and blockchain to throw light on the opportunities and benefits of these new technologies in improving security and safety. It also considers the challenges and threats of their application. It concludes by examining the trajectory of national and international regulatory developments. The book will appeal to scholars and students of maritime technology, law and governance, as well as practitioners and policymakers. Chapters 8, 19 and 20 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Internet has created a formidable challenge for human rights law and practice worldwide. International scholarly and policy-oriented communities have so far established a consensus regarding only one main aspect – human rights in the internet are the same as offline. There are emerging and ongoing debates regarding not only the standards and methods to be used for achieving the "sameness" of rights online, but also whether "classical" human rights as we know them are contested by the online environment. The internet itself, in view of its cross-border nature and its ability to affect various areas of law, requires adopting an internationally oriented approach and a perspective strongly...

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides. Gendered Power and Mobile Technology uses empirical research to focus on changing intersections between technology, gender and other categories of social and cultural power difference (such as age, race, class, and ethnicity) in the use of mobile communication technologies. Asking how these intersections can inform development discourse, practice, and research, this volume seeks to rectify the lack of attention to the Global South, calling for more sensitivity to the contexts and consequences of mobile phone use. Indeed, drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book engages with the intersectionality paradigm to tease out the complexities of using mobile technologies for development purposes. Gendered Power and Mobile Technology will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as media studies, development studies, gender and technology, feminist technoscience, anthropology, and sociology.