COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
[School]
[Course title]
, COM3704 Assignment 1 Semester 2 2024
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.
Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
[School]
[Course title]
, COM3704 Assignment 1 Semester 2 2024
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.
