Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Donner, Jonathan. (in press). The shrinking of the fourth world? Mobile communication technologies, economic development, and inclusion in the informational society. In J. Katz (Ed.), The handbook of mobile communication studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Donner, Jonathan, Rangaswamy, N., Steenson, M. W., & Wei, C. (in press). “Express yourself” / “Stay together”: Tensions surrounding mobile communication in the middle-class Indian family. In J. Katz (Ed.), The handbook of mobile communication studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Steenson, Molly & Donner, J. (in press). Beyond the personal and private: Modes of mobile phone sharing in urban India. In S. W. Campbell & R. Ling (Eds.), Mobile Communication Research Annual (Vol. 1). Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Books.
Donner, Jonathan. (2008). Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature. The Information Society 24(3), 140-159.
Donner, Jonathan. (2007). Customer acquisition among small and informal businesses in urban India: Comparing face to face, interpersonal, and mediated channels. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries 32(3) 1-16.
Donner, Jonathan. (2007). The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional “Missed Calls” on Mobile Phones. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13(1).
Donner, Jonathan. (2006). The use of mobile phones by microentrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda: Changes to social and business networks. Information Technologies and International Development 3 (2): 3-19.
Donner, Jonathan. (2005). The social and economic implications of mobile telephony in Rwanda: An ownership/access typology. In P. Glotz, S. Bertschi & C. Locke (Eds.), Thumb culture: The meaning of mobile phones for society (pp. 37-52). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag. (Alternate URL // Reprint))
Donner, Jonathan (2005). The mobile behaviors of Kigali’s microentrepreneurs: whom they call - and why. In Kristof Nyiri, ed., A Sense of Place: The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
Donner, Jonathan (2004). Microentrepreneurs and mobiles: an exploration of the uses of mobile phones by small business owners in Rwanda. Information Technologies and International Development 2(1), 1-22.
Donner, Jonathan (2003). What mobile phones mean to Rwandan entrepreneurs. In Kristof Nyiri, ed., Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics. Vienna: Passagen Verlag: 393-410.
Donner, J. (2001). Using Q sorts in participatory processes: An introduction to the methodology. In Social Analysis: Selected Tools and Techniques (Social Development Papers 36, pp. 24-49). Washington, DC: The World Bank.
Selected Conference Presentations
Donner, Jonathan. (2007, August 23). M-banking and m-payments services in the developing world: New channel, same ties? Presentation on the panel on living and livelihoods at HOIT2007: Home/community oriented ICT for the next billion, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. presentation
Donner, Jonathan. (2007, July 2-4). Perspectives on mobiles and PCs: Attitudinal convergence and divergence among small businesses in urban India. Paper presented at the Mobile Media: An international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies, Sydney, Australia.
Donner, Jonathan. (2007, 23-24 May). M-banking and m-payments services in the developing world: Complements or substitutes for trust and social capital? Paper presented at the Preconference on Mobile Communication at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.
Donner, Jonathan. (2006) Internet use (and non-use) among urban microenterprises in the developing world: An update from India. Paper presented at Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), September 28-30, Brisbane, Australia.
Donner, Jonathan (2004, June). Innovative approaches to public health information systems in developing countries: An example from Rwanda. Presented at ‘Mobile Technology and Health: Benefits and Risks’. Hosted by the Department of Economics, Society, and Geography at the University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Other Publications
Donner, Jonathan. (2007, September). M-Banking. id21 insights #69, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Donner, Jonathan. (2005). User-led innovations in mobile use in sub-Saharan Africa, Receiver #14, Vodafone.
