[Date]
COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
, 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.
COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
, 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.
