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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 134-147
"This paper aims to shed light on the threats that young people living in refugee camps face in their use of Facebook. While social media enable a participatory process of communication (Russo et al., 2008), which is based on the agency of the communicator and defined by their own cultural and moral
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
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London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic
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Transnational Communication and Identity Construction in Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of Four Diaspora Communities from the Horn of Africa
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2023), xvii, 325 pp.
"The study was sparked by the absence of literature on transnational masspersonal communication (tmc) of 'Eritrean', 'Ethiopian', Oromo, and Somali diaspora communities. To bridge this theoretical gap, an empirical study was conducted at meso-level based on three questions: (a) what topics do people
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The Digital Leisure Divide and the Forcibly Displaced. Part 2: Field Research
UNHCR (2023), 81 pp.
"Research on forcibly displaced people and their digital cultures have dominantly focused on utility-driven ends, primarily tied to goals of assimilation, social surveillance/tracking, economic betterment and other aid agencies’ specific agendas and outcomes. This approach negates much of their di
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Kyrgyz Diaspora Online: Understanding Political Participation and Transnational Citizenship
OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2022), 23 pp.
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 273 pp.
"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, en
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Análisis del ecosistema de información de población migrante, retornada y refugiada en Cali, Colombia
USAID; Internews (2022), 66 pp.
"La principal información que la población migrante, refugiada y retornada manifiesta necesitar para su vida en Cali, Colombia es: 78.3% sobre necesidades primarias, como acceso a servicios de salud, techo y alimentación; 62.1% sobre medios de subsistencia, como información laboral, educación y
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Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for (big) Data?
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvi, 262 pp.
"This OA book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process
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Asylees' ICT and Digital Media Usage: New Life - New Information?
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), x, 270 pp.
"What kind of information are refugees looking for? Who do they communicate with? What ICT, social and digital media do they apply? What are their motives to use particular devices or services, from Facebook and WhatsApp to YouTube and TikTok? Are gender- as well as age-dependent differences to be o
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Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response: ‘Caminantes’ at the Venezuela–Colombia Border
London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG); Medianálisis (2022), 18 pp.
"The testimonies of caminantes [migrants and refugees travelling primarily by foot] interviewed for this study highlight the significant limitations of social media as a tool for inclusion among populations on the move in Venezuela and Colombia. It is important to note that caminantes are an acutely
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Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Action: The Case of Refugees in Uganda
London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG); Medianálisis (2022), 40 pp.
"The potential benefits of increased digitalisation to refugees, living in situations where access to information and spaces for communication exchange are of the essence, are yet to be realised. Uganda’s forced migrants, both those in refugee settlements and those self-settled in urban areas, hav
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Refugees in the Digital Economy: The Future of Work Among the Forcibly Displaced
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 1-12
"The current scale and duration of displacement prompts renewed urgency about livelihoods prospects for displaced people and the role of humanitarian organisations in fostering them. This special issue focuses on how aid organisations, together with the private sector and other actors, have worked t
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Connecting Without Protecting: Intermediating the Internet Economy in Digital Livelihoods Provision for Refugees
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 13-21
"Because refugees face barriers to making a livelihood online, aid organisations and private enterprises support them by building bridges across digital divides, connectivity problems or skill gaps. They thereby become intermediaries and brokers that facilitate connections between refugees and onlin
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Moving Up the Digital Ladder: The Case of Refugees Digital Financial Inclusion in Rwanda
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2022), 21 pp.
Análisis del Ecosistema de Información de las Personas Provenientes de Venezuela en Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia
USAID; Internews (2022), 66 pp.
"1. Las lideresas comunitarias son el filtro informativo de servicios y ayudas que llegan a los asentamientos de Maicao [...] 2. El voz-a-voz como principal fuente de información y verificación [...] 3. El entretenimiento es el contenido de mayor consumo por encima del noticioso; este tipo de cons
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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the
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Retrouver du lien: S’informer au sein des communautés déplacées au Mali au temps de la COVID-19
Internews (2021), 79 pp.
"Cette évaluation de l'écosystème de l'information documente comment l'information autour de la pandémie de la COVID-19 est produite au Mali ainsi que les pratiques informationnelles des Populations Déplacées internes (PDI) dans les régions de Bamako, Ségou, Sikasso, Mopti et Tombouctou. Ell
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Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), 464 pp.
"Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using interdisciplinary approaches, contributions
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Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2021), xii, 228 pp.
"Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline space
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En movimiento durante la pandemia COVID-19: Información, confianza e influencia entre venezolanos en Nariño, Colombia
Internews (2021), 74 pp.
"1. Los proveedores de información no han atendido suficientemente las necesidades de los refugiados y migrantes en la región, especialmente aquellos en situaciones más vulnerables como los refugiados y migrantes LGBTQI+ y aquellos con estatus migratorio irregular. Los líderes comunitarios para
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