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Digital in 2018: Essential Insights Into Internet, Social Media, Mobile, and E-Commerce Use Around the World
We Are Social; Hootsuite (2018), 153 slides
"Perhaps the most exciting headline in this year’s reports is that global internet users have now passed the 4 billion mark. Well over half of the world’s population now uses the internet, and a quarter of a billion new users came online for the first time during the past 12 months. People are s
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Vulnerable Children in a Digital World
Youthworks; Internet Matters (2018), 42 pp.
"“Vulnerable children are more likely to be at risk from online dangers than their peers, and it’s vital that professionals working with young people understand the risks and how to help keep children safe. This Internet Matters report is a very welcome resource, explaining why we need to incorp
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018
Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2018), vi, 240 pp.
"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban
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Social Media und psychische Gesundheit: Am Beispiel der Identitätskonstruktion auf Instagram
Communicatio Socialis, volume 51, issue 4 (2018), pp. 467-480
"Jugendliche heute kennen kaum ein Leben ohne Social Media-Plattformen am Smartphone. Untersuchungen legen Zusammenhänge zwischen dieser Mediennutzung und psychischer Gesundheit in der Adoleszenz nahe. Es zeichnen sich positive und negative Effekte ab. Erkenntnisse aus US-amerikanischen und britisc
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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 196 pp.
"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph
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Digital Blooms: Social Media and Violence in Sri Lanka
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute; Alliance for Peacebuilding (2018), 12 pp.
"The policy brief outlines key snapshots of Sri Lanka’s social media landscape as it stood at the time of writing, in early August 2018, and offers some recommendations aimed at civil society’s use of social media for conflict transformation." (Abstract)
Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 225-241
"In this chapter we have offered an interpretation of the first twenty years of mobile telephony in marginal zones in Africa. With case-studies from central Mali, anglophone Cameroon and south-east Angola, we focused on the changes in both communication and mobility patterns, specifically in connect
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Social Media Use Needs Assessment for At-Risk Groups & In-Depth Analysis of Use of Social Media in Indonesia
Search for Common Ground; Love Frankie (2018), 84 pp.
"This report summarizes the findings from a research study conducted by Love Frankie to inform Search for Common Ground (Search) in developing an implementation strategy for a 24-month project to reduce the influence of violent extremist narratives online, particularly targeted at youth and ex-juven
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"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal
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Klinische Cyberpsychologie und Cybertherapie
Wien: facultas (2018), 246 pp.
"Das Werk vermittelt verständlich und anschaulich den aktuellen Stand des Wissens zum Einsatz neuer Medien in der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Neben dem Wandel psychologischen und psychotherapeutischen Denkens und Handelns beleuchten die AutorInnen auch die daraus entstehenden ethisch
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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
Deep Insights
London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi
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Chinese Social Media: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xvii, 245 pp.
"This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media
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The Arab World Online 2017: Digital Transformations and Societal Trends in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 61 pp.
"In this decade of digital transformation in the region, the Arab World stands at a critical juncture, where the internet is driving three interconnected waves of change: 1. A developmental juncture: The emergence of an online critical mass of 173 million interconnected people online today is creati
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Youth and Violent Extremism on Social Media: Mapping the Research
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 161 pp.
"Based on a bibliometric and scientific study of research conducted in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Arab world, parts of Africa and Asia on the links between the use of social media and the phenomena of radicalization, the Report analyzes more than 550 studies published i
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The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
New York; London: Routledge, paperback ed. (2017), xxiii, 558 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s
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The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxiv, 494 pp.
"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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Mídias sociais no Brasil emergente: Como a internet afeta a mobilidade social
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 291 pp.
"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd
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The State of World's Children 2017: Children in a Digital World
New York: UNICEF (2017), vi, 205 pp.
"[This report] surveys the landscape of digital opportunity as it relates to – and affects – children. It examines the digital divides that prevent millions of children from accessing through the internet new opportunities to learn and, someday, to participate in the digital economy, helping to
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