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Using digital technologies safely, wisely and securely: A short guide for small civil society organisations
ICT4D Collective, Version 7 (2026), 13 pp.
"This short guide is designed to provide small civil society organisations (especially those with few resources) with basic advice on how to use digital tech safely, wisely and securely/privately. It is not intended to be all-inclusive or highly technical, but instead focuses on things that should
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„Hi, how may I assist you?” Chatbots for Better Service Delivery. Practical Guide, Applications and Principles in Development Cooperation
Key Guides
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2026), 48 pp.
"The guide provides lessons-learnt for building AI chatbots and explores: motivations and requirements for developing a chatbot; functional types of AI chatbots suitable for different projects; content and knowledge base behind chatbots; technological architectures for AI chatbots; steering and man
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Human rights in the digital domain: core questions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xix, 471 pp.
"This book is essential for scholars, policymakers, and professionals navigating human rights in the digital age. It explores core questions on digital governance, AI regulation, platform accountability, and freedom of expression, offering interdisciplinary perspectives. This title is also available
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Grounding Digitalization: Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 278 pp.
"Digitalization is usually perceived as an invisible process and its cultural embeddedness as well as its material, spatial, and environmental grounding are often neglected. However, digital technologies and transformations are shaped not only by cultural values, practices, and imaginaries, but also
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Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba
Deep Insights
Princeton University Press (2026), xii, 242 pp.
"Until just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly available, Cubans have found inventive ways to work around such remaining barriers as slow speeds, high costs, and inadequate infrastructure. In Island in the Ne
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Digital Media Shadowing Democracy: Technology, Communication, and Power
Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg (2026), 282 pp.
"The book’s message is brief: Liberal democracies are at risk. Democratic decay has numerous causes, but technological innovations and profit-driven dynamics are shaping societal relations in ways that intensify disagreements and polarisation, undermining informed citizenship. The growing number o
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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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Digital Modernity: Why we Need to Think Historically about the Digital Age
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiii, 205 pp.
"This is the first systematic theorization of digital modernity, arguing that the digital age cannot be understood apart from the long historical arc of modernity. Bridging digital humanities, critical theory, sociology, philosophy, and global history, Digital Modernity demonstrates that contemporar
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"This book investigates how the rise of information and communications technologies is transforming life for Indigenous communities and those living in rural and developing areas. The global reach of the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones, broadband and social media have created an inte
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Advancing Open Source AI in India: Recommendations for Governments & Technology Developers
Bonn; Delhi; Noida (IN): Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All; NASSCOM (2026), 80 pp.
"[...] this brief positions open source AI as a strategic policy option within India’s evolving AI ecosystem. It unpacks the critical importance of openness for India’s digital future, crystallising the key opportunities it offers to governments and developers alike. In doing so, it also explore
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"The SAFE AI Framework is designed to support humanitarian organisations on their AI journey, and navigate the risks raised. Organisations procuring AI systems or designing AI projects will benefit from each tool within this framework, which is intended as a practical approach to using, designing, p
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Ethik der Digitalisierung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 347 pp.
"Künstliche Intelligenz, Big Data und die zunehmende Vernetzung stellen uns vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen. Hauke Behrendt wirft einen moralphilosophischen Blick auf den digitalen Wandel und diskutiert unter anderem die Risiken algorithmengestützter Prognose- und Entscheidungssysteme in Bezug au
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Safer platforms, stronger participation: Mapping gender-based violence online in Syria
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 57 pp.
"Findings show that Gender-Based Violence Online( GBVO) in Syria is normalized and systemic, not merely isolated incidents, functioning as a mechanism of social control that reinforces patriarchal power and restricts civic participation. It takes overlapping forms, including sexual blackmail, harass
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Communicating Sustainable Development Goals in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Palgrave Macmillan (2026), xlvii, 523 pp.
"This book is the first scholarly work dedicated to examining the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and communicating the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Moving beyond techno-optimist narratives, the book advances a critical theoretical intervention: the AI Sustainability Exclus
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Unabhängige Expertenkommission „Kinder- und Jugendschutz in der digitalen Welt“: Bestandsaufnahme
Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (2026), 128 pp.
"Diese Bestandsaufnahme ist in der ersten Arbeitsphase der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission „Kinder- und Jugendschutz in der digitalen Welt“, zwischen Oktober 2025 und Februar 2026, von den 18 Mitgliedern der Kommission verfasst worden. Die Kommission hat drei Arbeitsgruppen gebildet, die jeweil
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AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
Journal of Consumer Research, volume 52, issue 6 (2026), pp. 1126–1148
"Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications (apps) are effective at alleviating lonel
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"Based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, the seven characteristics of trustworthy AI are:
1. Valid and Reliable: The AI system should perform as intended, delivering accurate results consistently across different situations.
2. Safe: The sy
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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa
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Resource Guide on Advancing Digital Inclusion
Paris: UNESCO (2026), 19 pp.
"Digital inclusion is essential for equitable access to knowledge and full participation in today’s digital society. As digital public infrastructure expands, it is critical that digital transformation reduces—rather than reinforces—existing inequalities, particularly for persons with disabili
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Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiv, 244 pp.
"Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media sheds light on a fascinating yet often overlooked phenomenon: how ordinary people transform their private lives into captivating performances for the digital stage. Focusing on home dance videos shared on Instagram from 2010 to 2020, the
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