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Young and Online: Children’s Perspectives on Life in the Digital Age. The State of the World’s Children 2017 Companion Report
Sydney: Western Sydney University (2017), 91 pp.
"In June 2017, 490 children aged 10–18, from 26 different countries and speaking 24 official languages, participated in workshops held by UNICEF Country Offices and National Committees to share their views on how and why they use digital technologies in their everyday lives, as well as their aspir
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Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2017), x, 204 pp.
"This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data
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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics
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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 Third Digital Divide: A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 128 pp.
"Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of inequality, or whether it also includes new forms of social exclusion, or perhaps manifests counter-trends that alle
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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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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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Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria: A Case Study of ICT Access and Usage in Lagos Metropolis
Leicester: University of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication, Master of Arts Thesis (2017), 65 pp.
"This research assesses the access and usage of ICT (mobile and smart phones, personal computer, tablets and ipads) and internet by residents of Lagos in Nigeria, with emphasis on the availability and use of ICT for socioeconomic and political growth. ICT access and usage is indispensable in today's
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Social Media in Afghanistan: Users and Engagement
Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 74 pp.
"Access to and use of internet in Afghanistan has grown in the past decade to reach approximately 12% of the population. Social media penetration has followed the same course, challenging traditional media platforms and providing new platforms for public discourse. Social media carries the expectati
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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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Always On: A Global Perspective of Mobile Consumer Experience
New York: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) (2017), 51 slides
"18 countries participated in the research, 200 representative smartphone owners from each country [...] The majority (63%) of smartphone owners worldwide use their mobile device at least every 30 minutes. This usage includes any and all different ways a mobile device can be used, from making calls,
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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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Redes sociales, virtualidad y subjetividades
México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2017), 314 pp.
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 Arab Social Media Report 2017: Social Media and the Internet of Things. Towards Data-Driven Policymaking in the Arab World
Deep Insights
Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 85 pp.
"The report has two main parts. In the first part, we explore the questions discussed in the previous paragraphs [on the internet of things] through a regional survey spanning the 22 Arab countries. In the second part we continue the tradition set in the previous editions of the Arab Social Media Re
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Mobile Phone Usage in Turkana, Kenya
Internet Use Barriers and User Strategies: Perspectives from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Rwanda
Research ICT Africa; Mozilla Foundation (2017), 40 pp.
"The study tested the following hypotheses: the use of subsidised services only forms part of data use; people do not move beyond the use of subsidised services; using the internet first through subsidised services leaves people with less of an understanding of the Internet. Using subsidised data fo
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Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Global Nannies in Paris
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 525-539
"Feminization of migration has emerged as a common livelihood strategy to alleviate poverty and escape difficult socioeconomic, cultural, and familial situations. Mobile phones have become the most crucial and pervasive communication device that enables migrants to be simultaneously mobile and conne
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