COM3704 Assignment
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, Knowledge is like light. Weightless and intangible, it can travel
the world, enlightening the lives of people everywhere. Yet
billions of people still live in the darkness of poverty –
unnecessarily (World Development Report, 1999, p.1).
QUESTION 1: NEW MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT ESSAY
[45] Read the following prescribed readings and Study Unit 8:
New Media and Development • Mdlongwa, F. 2009. Doing
Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems.
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Johannesburg. • Mohammad
Abbaszadeh, Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam, Reza
Pourhosein, Leila Nasrolahi Vosta, (2019). Technological media
and development: A systematic mapping study and research
agenda. Information Technology & People, 32 (3), 478-515. •
White, A. (2014). Digital Media Use in the Developing World. In:
Digital Media and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. •
Bourdeau de Fontenay, A & Beltran, F. 2008. Inequality and
economic growth: Should we be concerned by the digital divide?
Paper delivered at the 17th Biennial Conference of the
International Telecommunications Society, Montreal, 24–27 June.
• Chibber, NK. 2002. Overcoming rural-urban digital divide in
South Asian developing countries. Paper delivered at the 14th
Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications
Society, Seoul, 18–21 August. • Coward, C. 2008. Why do
telecentres deserve ongoing attention? Telecentre Magazine. •
Lesame, NC. 2009. The role of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) in development: A case study of the role of
telecentres in the education of users. Pretoria: University of South
Africa. • Nandi, B. 2002. Role of telecommunications in
developing countries in the 21st century. Paper presented at the
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