Reading List on New Media and International Development

Tema Milstein and Philip Howard, Communication, University of Washington

 

12/29/2002

 

 

The Middle East and the Internet: Politics and Development.

 

(1987). Assembly Calls for Co-Operation in a New World Information and Communication Order. UN Chronicle. 24: 96-98.

 

(1996). Tele-Haves and Have-Nots (Developing Countries Make Use of Technological Innovations)(Editorial). The Economist. 339: 19-20.

 

(1998). @T Ease with E-Mail: A Handbook on Using Electronic Mail for Ngos in Developing Countries, United Nations Non-Government Liaison Service.

 

(1999). At the Back of Beyond: Cellular Telephone Service in Developing Countries. The Economist. 353: 20.

 

(1999). Challenges to the Network: Internet for Development. Geneva, International Telecommunication Union: 22.

 

(2000). Cyber Citizenship Gains in Developing World. The Futurist. 34: 19.

 

(2000). "Global Telephone Access Improves as Internet Gap Widens: Defying Conventional Wisdom." Database and Network Journal 32(2): 12.

 

(2002). Addressing the "Digital Divide:" International Telecommunication Union Holds "World Telecommunication Development. Video Age International. 21: 10.

 

(2002). Cybermarketing: A Guide for Managers in Developing Countries, Unknown.

 

(2002). Exploiting the Potentials of the Internet in Developing Countries. Africa News Service: p1008044u6116.

 

(Unknown Binding). Amâerica Latina En Internet : Manual Y Fuentes De Informaciâon, CSIC, CINDOC: 263.

 

(updated). Economist Intelligence Unit.

 

Abbott, J. P. (2001). Democracy@Internet.Asia? The Challenges to the Emancipatory Potential of the Net: Lessons from China and Malaysia. Third World Quarterly. 22: 99.

 

Adamu, A. U. (2002). "From Mindmeld to Mindset: Negotiating the Information Minefield in Developing Countries." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 28(6): 25-31.

 

Adonis, A. (1995). Oxcarts on the Infobahn: Most of the World Is Not yet Equipped for the Information Highway. World Press Review: 40.

 

Aris, L., P. Gee, et al. (1996). Getting on-Line in Emergencies: A Guide and Directory to the Internet for Agencies Involved in Relief and Rehabilitation. London, Overseas Development Institute.

 

Arquilla, J., G. E. Fuller, et al. (1999). The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico, Rand Corporation for the U.S. Defense Department: 181.

 

Arunachalam, S. (1999). "Information and Knowledge in the Age of Electronic Communication: A Developing Country Perpective." Journal of Information Science 25(6): 465.

 

Arunachalam, S. (1999). Information Technology: What Does It Mean for Scientists and Scholars in the Developing World? How Technology Enhances Existing Inequalities. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 25: 21-24.

 

Baker, S., S. Gelston, et al. (1990). The Third World Is Getting Cellular Fever. Business Week: 80-81.

 

Boukhari, S. (1998). Satellites for the South. UNESCO Courier: 74-75.

 

Bryant, C. (2001). The Use of the Internet in the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network. Ottawa, University of Guelph.

 

Burkett, I. (2000). Beyond the 'Information Rich and Poor': Futures Understandings of Inequality in Globalising Information Economies. Futures. 32: 679-694.

 

Butler, D. (1999). Internet May Help Bridge the Gap. Nature. 397: 10.

 

Canclini, N. G. (1996). Unequal Partners: Threat of New Communications Media to Non-Western Culture. UNESCO Courier. September: 29-31.

 

Chasia, H. (1995). Satellites and Developing Countries. IEEE Communications Magazine. 33: 110-112.

 

Cleaver, H. (1998). "The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric." Journal of International Affairs 51(2): 621-640.

 

Coy, P., S. Moshavi, et al. (1994). There's More Than One Way to Play Leapfrog: Third-World Countries Are Adopting Key Technologies. Business Week. 3399: 162-163.

 

Dadashzadeh, M. (2002). Information Technology Management in Developing Countries, IRM Press.

 

Daly, J. A. and R. R. Miller (1998). Corporations' Use of the Internet in Developing Countries (Discussion Paper (Intl Finance Corp), No 35), World Bank.

 

Deane, J. (1998). Crossed Wires in Global Telecoms. UNESCO Courier: 43-45.

 

Edejer, T. T.-T. (2000). "Disseminating Health Information in Developing Countries: The Role of the Internet." British Medical Journal 321(7264): 797-800.

 

Edwards, S. (2002). "Information Technology and Economic Growth in Developing Countries." Challenge 45(3): 19-43.

 

Ferrer, A. (2001). De Cristobal Colon a Internet: America Latina Y La Globalizacion, Fondo De Cultura Economica.

 

Franda, M. F. (2002). China and India Online: The Politics of Information Technology in the World's Largest Nations, Rowman & Littlefield.

 

French, H. W. (1998). In Africa, Reality of Technology Falls Short. The New York Times: C1, D1.

 

Ghashghai, E. and R. Lewis (2002). Issues Affecting Internet Use in Afghanistan and Developing Countries in the Middle East. Santa Monica, CA., Rand.

 

Goldstein, A. and D. O'Connor (2001). Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: Will E-Commerce Help Solve Problems That Have Dogged Developing Countries for Decades, or Will a Widening Digital Divide Entrench Them Still Further in a Vicious Circle of Poverty? OECD Observer: 72-74.

 

Grant, E. S. (2000). "Towards an Internet-Based Education Model for Caribbean Countries." Journal of Educational Media 25(1): 21-30.

 

Group, Y. (2001). Latin America: Paid Dial-up Internet Subscriber Accounts Update, MarketResearch.com.

 

Group, Y. (2001). Snapshot: Latin America's Pan-Regional Facilities-Based Internet Hosting Service Providers, MarketResearch.com.

 

Gueiros, N. (1994). Technological Future Must Include All Nations. Billboard. 106: 8.

 

Guemriche, S. (1997). The Mixed Signals of Globalization: How Ideas Travel. UNESCO Courier: 22-24.

 

Hafez, K. (2001). Mass Media, Politics, and Society in the Middle East. Cresskill, N.J., Hampton Press.

 

Hanna, N. K. (1991). The Information Technology Revolution and Economic Development (World Bank Discussion Papers, No 120), World Bank: 57.

 

Harcourt, W. (1999). Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London, Zed Books.

 

Hegener, M. (1995). E-Mail from the Bush: On-Line in the Third World. World Press Review: 11.

 

Holderness, M. (1996). The Internet and the South. Earth Island Journal. 12: 40-42.

 

IDC (2001). Two Steps Forward...One Step Back? Latin America Internet Perspectives.

 

James, J. (2001). " Bridging the Digital Divide with Low-Cost Information Technologies." Journal of Information Science 27(4).

 

Jimba, S. W. (2000). "The Influence of Information Technology Access on Agricultural Research in Nigeria." Internet Research 10(1): 63.

 

Jouhy, E. (1984). New Media in the Third World. New York, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School.

 

Kagami, M. and M. Tsuji (2002). Digital Divide or Digital Jump: Beyong "It" Revolution. Tokyo, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization.

 

Kalathil, S. and T. Boas (in press). Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, Carnegie.

 

Khosrowpour, M. and M. Khosrow-Pour (1998). Effective Utilization and Management of Emerging Information Technologies: The 1998 Conference Proceedings in Boston Massachusettes. IRMA International Conference, Boston, Idea Group Publishing.

 

Kowalczykowski, M. (2002). "Disconnected Continent." Harvard International Review 24(2): 40-43.

 

Lal, K. (2001). "Institutional Environment and the Development of Information and Communication Technology in India." The Information Society 17(2).

 

Loo, E. and Y. S. Beng (1998). "‘Cyber-Colonialism in Asia: More Imagined Than Real?’." Media Asia 3(25): 130-137.

 

Madon, S. (2000). "The Internet and Socio-Economic Development: Exploring the Interaction." Information Technology & People 13(2): 85.

 

Mbambo, B. (2002). "The Internet as an Information Conduit in Developing Countries: An Investigation of World Wide Web Usability among Small and Medium Textile Enterprises in Botswana." Pretoria.

 

Mesch, G. S. (2001). "Social Relationships and Internet Use among Adolescents in Israel." Social Science Quarterly 82(329-340).

 

Mitra, A. (1996). "Nations and the Internet: The Case of a National Newsgroup." Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2(1): 44-75.

 

Mitra, A. (1997). "Diasporic Web Sites: Ingroup and Outgroup Discourse." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14: 158-181.

 

Mitra, A. (1997). Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet. Virtual Culture. S. Jones. Newbury Park, SAGE.

 

Mitra, A. (2000). Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet. The Cyberculture Reader. D. B. a. B. M. Kennedy. New York, Routledge: 676-694.

 

Mitra, A. (2001). "Diasporic Voices in Cyberspace." New Media and Society 3(1): 29-48.

 

Mitter, S. and S. Rowbotham (1995). Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World. London, Routledge.

 

Morring, F. and M. A. Taverna (2001). Satellites Seen as Bridge over `Digital Divide'. Aviation Week & Space Technology. 155: 86-87.

 

Mueller, M. (1999). Emerging Internet Infrastructures Worldwide. Communications of the ACM. 42: 28-30.

 

multiple (2001). Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth - International Evidence and Implications for Economic Development.

 

Muthien, Y. (2002). Commercial Solutions to a Social Problem. Intermedia. 30: 42-44.

 

Najar, R. (2001). A Voice from the Third World: Towards a 'New World Order of Information'. UNESCO Courier. December: 45-47.

 

Peha, J. M. (1999). Lessons from Haiti's Internet Development. Communications of the ACM. 42: 67-72.

 

Peng, B. (1994). "The Regulation of New Media in Taiwan." Asian journal of communication 4(2): 97-109.

 

Persaud, A. (2001). Knowledge and the Internet: Global Inequalities of Wealth. Current: 17.

 

Persaud, A. (2001). The Knowledge Gap. Foreign Affairs. 80: 107-117.

 

Petrazzini, B. "Petrazzini, B. And M. Kibati. 1999. "the Internet in Developing

Countries." Communications of the Acm 42, 6 (June): 31-36.

           

Ronfeldt, David, John Arquilla, Graham Fuller, and Melissa

Fuller. 1998. The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico. Santa Monica, Ca:

Rand, Mr-994-A."

 

Petrazzini, B. and M. Kibati (1999). The Internet in Developing Countries. Communications of the ACM. 42: 31-37.

 

Press, L. (1995). Resources for Networks in Less-Industrialized Nations. Computer. 28: 66-71.

 

Richardson, D. (1997). The Internet and Rural and Agricultural Development: An Integrated Approach, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

 

Robins, M. B. (2002). "Are African Women Online Just Ict Consumers?" Gazette 64(3): 235-249.

 

Rosenberg, D. (1999). Cd-Rom: A Sustainable and Sustaining Medium for African Libraries? Online & CD - ROM Review. 23: 231-233.

 

Rothman, D. H. (1987). The Electronic Peace Corps (Computer Communications in Poorer Countries). National Review. 39: 43-44.

 

Stevenson, R. L. (1992). Communication, Development, & the Third World: The Global Politics of Information. Lanham, MD., University Press of America.

 

Sussman, G. and J. A. Lent (1991). Transnational Communications: Wiring the Third World. Newbury Park, CA., Sage Publications.

 

Talero, E. and P. Gaudette (1996). Harnessing Information for Development: A Proposal for a World Bank Group Strategy (World Bank Discussion Papers, 313), World Bank: 40.

 

Tan, Z. A. (1999). China's State-Coordinated Internet Infrastructure. Communications of the ACM. 42: 44-53.

 

Venkat, K. (2002). "Delving into the Digital Divide." IEEE Spectrum 39(2): 14-16.

 

Vijaya Lakshmi, K. P. (1993). Communications across the Borders: The U.S., the Non-Aligned and the New Information Order. New Delhi, India, Radiant Publishers.

 

Wheeler, D. "Islam, Technology and Community: September 11th and Its Global Meaning." The Journal of Education, Community and Values.

 

Wheeler, D. (2000). "New Media, Globalization and Kuwaiti National Identity." The Middle East Journal 54(3): 432-444.

 

Wheeler, D. (2001). "Beyond Global Culture: Islam and the Challenges of Cyberspace." Digest of Middle East Studies.

 

Wheeler, D. (2001). "The Internet and Public Culture in Kuwait." Gazette.

 

Wheeler, D. (2001). Old Culture, New Technology; a Look at Women, Gender and the Internet in Kuwait. Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. C. Ess and F. Sudweeks. Albany, SUNY.

 

Wheeler, D. L. (1996). "In Praise of the Virtual Life? New Media, Democratization, International Development, Human Rights and the Protection of Middle Eastern Cultural Spaces." Monitors: A journal of technology and human rights 1(1): 1-32.

 

Wheeler, D. L. (1998). "Global Culture/Culture Clash: New Information Technologies in the Islamic World—a Veiw from Kuwait." Communication Research 25(4): 359-376.

 

Wright, D. (1994). "Mobile Satellite Communications in Developing Countries: The Role of Inmarsat." Telecommunications Policy 18(1): 5-11.

 

Zaidi, Z. H. and V. Ray (2000). Media and Communications in the Third World. New Delhi, Kanishka Publishers.