COM3704
Assignment 1
(COMPLETE
ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 -
DUE 2024
, COM3704 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024 - DUE
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. •
Coward, C. 2008. Why do telecentres deserve ongoing attention? Telecentre
For assistance whatsapp +254702715801
Assignment 1
(COMPLETE
ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2024 -
DUE 2024
, COM3704 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024 - DUE
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. •
Coward, C. 2008. Why do telecentres deserve ongoing attention? Telecentre
For assistance whatsapp +254702715801
