COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]
, 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
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]
, 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.
