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What’s New in Digital Scholarship: April 2013
April 2013 review of recent studies and reports that relate to news, social and civic media.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: January 2013
January 2013 review of recent studies and reports relating to news, social and civic media.
Is There an Asian Model of Technological Emergence?
2013 study in Socio-Economic Review assessing looking at distinctions among Asian countries in terms of technological development and economics.
Mobile Leapfrogging and Digital Divide Policy
2013 paper from the New America Foundation reviewing existing scholarship on mobile phone use in the developing world and critically examining the potential downsides versus building more broadband infrastructure to support PCs.
2013 review of research and article in the journal Science on the global energy consumption of Internet and communications technology.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship?: March 2013
March 2013 review of the latest studies in the areas of journalism, digital media and communications, cross-posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Innovation in Hybrid Spaces: 2011 U.N. Climate Summit and the Expanding Journalism Landscape
2013 study in Journalism on the converging practices of journalistic and advocacy organizations, as seen through the case of climate change-related coverage.
Effects of the Internet on politics: Research roundup
A literature review of studies in the past few years that shed light on issues such as online political polarization.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship?: February 2013
February 2013 review of the latest studies in digital-oriented academic disciplines; the new studies touch on journalism, social media and communications. A cross-post with Nieman Journalism Lab.
The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup
Roundup of recent studies that bring a scholarly, data-driven lens to questions around the Arab Spring.
Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2013
2012 report report from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and the Georgia Tech Research Institute presented at the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit 2012 on the top cybersecurity threats.
Social Networking Popular Across Globe: Arab Publics Most Likely to Express Political Views Online
2012 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitude Project on the use of social networking and mobile phones in 21 countries around the world.
The Territorial Dynamics of Innovation in China and India
2012 study from the London School of Economics on differences between China and India in terms of business innovation.
Global protest, technology and social media: Research roundup
2012 review of scholarship on the Internet, social media and political activism around the world.
New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring
2012 study by the United States Institute of Peace on the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring uprisings.
Comparing the Cell Phone Driver and Drunk Driver
2004 AEI-Brookings Joint Center study assessing the risks of using a cell phone while driving
Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data Evidence from Uganda
2009 study in World Development on how mobile technology can help farmers thrive.
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk
2012 study by MIT, Yale and UC-Berkeley on social science research participants on the Internet.
Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere
2012 study by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Russia’s relative Internet freedom.
2012 study in the Journal of Communication about the relationship between Internet use and the potential development of greater democracy in Asia and Africa.
