One laptop per child program
This is a research essay on any topic relevant to the course. About 8 pages maximum.
For example, you could choose a country in the Global South and research how our media covers this country. And ~ or you could also research the media industry of this country: newspapers, broadcasting, the internet, mobile phones, social media. Draw on what you have learned in the course in your discussion.
SAMPLE RESEARCH TOPICS
Critically assess the One Laptop Per Child program. See readings in Files – Week 9.
Warschauer and Ames, “Can one laptop per child save the world’s poor? Journal of International Affairs 64(1) 2010: 33-51. Trent e-journal.
Daiana Beitler, National Programmes, Technical Projects: An ethnography of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) programme in Uruguay. London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2013. Available online.
Research report: The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay (2014), online at:
Marginalized youth in developing countries often access the web through internet cafes. Describe what these are like and the aspirations of youth using them.
Jenna Burrell, “User Agency in the Middle Range: Rumours and the Reinvention of the Internet in Accra, Ghana,” Science, Technology and Human Values 2011, 36(2): 139-159. Trent Library e-journal.
Jenna Burrell, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana (2012). Trent Library. Print. use APA style citations.
Qiu and Liuning, “Through the Prism of the Internet Café,” China Information (2005) XIX:261-297. Trent Library e-journal.
Jack Linchuan Qui, Working Class Network Society (MIT, 2009). Trent Library. Print.
Graham Candy, Winning and Losing in Modern China, Peeps Magazine. Available online.
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