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COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2
2024
QUESTIONS WITH 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.
COM3704
Assignment 1
Semester 2
2024
QUESTIONS WITH 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.
