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Our Online Lives: Messages from Pre-Teens
Youthworks (2025), 19 pp.
"This report describes responses from pre-teens about their digital lives, delivering insights into their experiences, feelings, and concerns. While there are challenges in educating children aged 11-12 about online safety, hearing firsthand about their experiences can help direct our attention to t
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Fake friend: How ChatGPT betrays vulnerable teens by encouraging dangerous behaviour
Center for Countering Digital Hate (2025), 54 pp.
"ChatGPT is easily accessed by children without age restrictions or parental controls: ChatGPT says users must be at least 13 to sign up and have parental consent if aged under 18. However, ChatGPT does not verify users’ ages or record parental consent.
ChatGPT generates harmful content within mi
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Exploring Mental Health and Digital Technologies Among Young People in Rural Areas
Hopelab (2025), 19 pp.
"Young people in rural areas report distinct patterns in how they engage with digital technologies compared to their suburban and urban peers. These notable patterns are both shaped by and contribute to their experiences with digital connection, mental health, and well-being. This report highlights
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Zwischen Wertschätzung und Widerstand: Algorithmische Kompetenz junger Menschen am Beispiel der Kurzvideoplattform TikTok
Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institut (2025), 64 pp.
"In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, was Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene über die Funktionsweise des algorithmischen Empfehlungssystems (AES) von TikTok wissen, inwiefern sie damit interagieren und welche Emotionen dabei involviert sind. Dazu wurden sechs Fokusgruppen (n=31) in drei deuts
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Me, myself and AI: Understanding and safeguarding children’s use of AI chatbots
London: Internet Matters (2025), 56 pp.
"This report explores how children are interacting with AI chatbots, which are computer programmes designed to simulate conversation with a person. Our findings show that while these tools can offer clear benefits, such as 24/7 learning support and a non-judgemental space to ask questions, they pose
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
London: University of Westminster Press (2025), xi, 194 pp.
"This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by
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Mitigating loneliness and remediating solitude: Pandemic narratives from the Global South
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 19 pp.
"Set in the Global South context of India, this article examines how users of digital media used their platforms and devices to mitigate loneliness and create moments of solitude during the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, experiencing loneliness has been understood as debilitating but solitude has
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Infancia, adolescencia y bienestar digital: Una aproximación desde la salud, la convivencia y la responsabilidad social
Madrid: UNICEF España; Universidad de Santaigo de Compostela; Consejo General de Ingeniería (2025), 73 pp.
"La presencia de los dispositivos digitales en el día a día de niños, niñas y adolescentes es indudable. El 82,4% dispone de su propio teléfono móvil, al que acceden por término medio a los 10,8 años. El 51,6% del alumnado de Primaria dispone ya de móvil propio, porcentaje que asciende al 9
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Measuring Digital Development. Facts and Figures: Focus on Landlocked Developing States
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 33 pp.
"Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face unique development challenges. Higher transportation costs, trade barriers, and limited connectivity impede economic integration. LLDCs rely on neighbouring countries for access to trade routes, resulting in delays and higher costs. These countries also
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The Impact of Social Media in Afghanistan: A Multi-Disciplinary Study
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, volume 17 (2024), pp. 3121-3139
"This multi-disciplinary study aims to explore the diverse effects of social media on Afghan youth, focusing on usage patterns, mental health implications, entertainment-driven time allocation, financial expenditures, exposure to explicit content, and academic performance. Methods: A cross-sectional
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Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2919-2947
"This study investigates some of the communicative practices displayed by readers of vertically scrolling digital comics known as webtoons. A big-data emotion detection technique is used to identify, categorize, and analyze the contents of more than 14 million comments posted during the first year o
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Azerbaijan digital skills assessment 2023-2024
Geneva: ITU (2024), ix, 83 pp.
"The survey findings reveal that 25 per cent of those aged between 15 and 74 have at least basic digital skills, with 7.8 per cent having above basic digital skills and 17.3 per cent having basic digital skills. The study also found that over a quarter (26.5%) of respondents below the basic level of
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Beyond the newsroom: Cambodia's media from an audience perspective. An audience study
International Media Support (IMS) (2024), 19 pp.
"This report presents the findings from a qualitative audience study conducted in Cambodia from December 2023 to February 2024. The study was commissioned by the international media development organisation IMS, International Media Support, and supported by the European Union. The study aimed to ass
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Einblicke in eine neue Mediennutzungstypologie: Medien und Lebenswelten als strategisches Instrument: Die Digital Media Types
Media Perspektiven, issue 4 (2024), 11 pp.
"Mit den Digital Media Types wurde die MedienNutzerTypologie für die digitale Welt weiterentwickelt. Sie bilden verschiedene Lebensstile und -welten ab, die Einfluss auf die Mediennutzung haben. Programmentwickler können sie als strategisches Instrument einsetzen, um spezifische Interessen und Bed
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Decoding Social Media’s Role in Taliban 2.0 and its Implications for Afghan Youth
Honolulu: East-West Center (2024), 8 pp.
"The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021 after two decades of fighting on the ground and manipulating narratives online, particularly on social media. Their tactical use of social media was more evident in 2021 when they were advancing their territorial gains and posting on social
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric of populist radical right leaders on social media platforms
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 49, issue 3 (2024), pp. 400-420
"Social media platforms have become crucial channels for radical right populist leaders to broadcast anti-immigrant views. These politicians employ various rhetorical appeals, such as pathos (emotional language), logos (logical arguments), and ethos (speaker credibility), to sway public opinion. Thi
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Connected Resilience: Gendered Experiences of Meaningful Connectivity through a Global Pandemic
Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 57 pp.
"Looking at patterns between those with meaningful connectivity — defined as having daily internet use with 4G-like speeds, owning a smartphone, and an unlimited access point at home, work, or a place of study — and those with just basic or no internet access at all, we saw key distinctions betw
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