COM3704 Assignment 1
Semester 2 2024
[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.
Semester 2 2024
[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.
