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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares
Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.
Media Use in the Middle East 2016: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2016), 110 pp.
"It is too often assumed anyone can communicate via the internet or share in the benefits of easily available newspapers and free-to-air television or radio; this is not always true. Lower internet penetration and mobile broadband access in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, for example, stand in sha
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Cyberpsychologie: Leben im Netz. Wie das Internet uns verändert
München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) (2016), 351 pp.
"Das Internet hat Auswirkungen auf die Persönlichkeit, auf Einstellungen und Werthaltungen. In der digitalen Welt kann sich jeder neu definieren, in die Anonymität abtauchen und ein neues Ich erfinden. Alle Facetten menschlicher Erfahrungen und Verhaltensweisen finden sich nicht nur wieder, sonder
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Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2016. Top Trends and Data from the Past 12 Months
[author] (2016), 16 pp.
"This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports designed to capture key developments and data related to usage of social media in the Middle East. The past year has seen the continued growth of visual-led social networks, especially in the more affluent Gulf region. Meanwhile, the discernibl
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Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.
"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos
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Social Media in Industrial China
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 222 pp.
"Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their
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Digital News Report 2016
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.
"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and
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Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinarily Ordinary
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xii, 218 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospice
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Ocho claves para entender las audiencias digitales en Colombia: Redes sociales, público universitario y dispositivos móviles como factores de sostenibilidad de las empresas periodísticas
Bogotá: Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI); Universidad de los Andes (2016), 58 pp.
"La sostenibilidad de los medios depende en gran medida de las nuevas relaciones que tejen con su audiencia poniendo la tecnología a su servicio. El desafío al que el periodismo y los medios se enfrentan es pensar cómo usar la información que capturan de los recorridos de sus usuarios en la red
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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien
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Facets of Facebook: Use and Users
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), x, 328 pp.
"The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook. Facebook has many facets, and we just look forward above all to the use and users. The facet
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Indigenous Social Media Practices in Southwestern Amazonia
AlterNative: An International Journal, volume 11, issue 4 (2016), pp. 350-362
"This article discusses how the use of social media fosters, motivates, and regulates social relations among the Arawakan- and Panoan- speaking indigenous groups in the state of Acre and the southern part of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, where even the smallest towns have recently received highspee
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Kids online: Chic@s conectados. Investigación sobre precepciones y hábitos de niños, niñas y adolescentes en internet y redes sociales
Buenos Aires: UNICEF (2016), 61 pp.
"En Argentina hay más de 13 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNyA). 6 de cada 10 se comunican usando celular y 8 de cada 10 usan Internet. La tecnología atraviesa su existencia, impacta en sus modos de conocer, aprender, expresarse, divertirse y comunicarse. Para los chicos y chicas, los
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Communication in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of Media and Mobile Audiences
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.
"The survey indicates that radio remains the most widely accessed broadcast platform in Sierra Leone. In all, eight out of 10 (81%) Sierra Leoneans have access to radio, and 47% listen to it daily. Radio listenership is fractured, however, with no single station able to reach a national audience. Ar
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Paying for Access or Content? Blurred Understandings of Mobile Internet Data in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda
In: GlobDev 2016: Proceedings Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development
"The paper addresses the blurred understandings of what developing country mobile internet users feel they are paying for. The move towards increasing online news and music consumption around the world has resulted in low growth in paid content consumption and a digital advertising market that is no
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"This thesis is a theoretically framed and historically informed sociological analysis of how digital technology usage shapes religious identity in Pakistan. The development literature is dominated by assumptions of technologically driven progress towards secularisation and studies of technology pro
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From Garamut to Mobile Phone: Communication Change in Rural Papua New Guinea
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 4, issue 2 (2016), pp. 270-287
"This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption. The research indicates that the introduction of mobile telecommunications has generally been viewed positively, with mo
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Quand l'Afrique réinvente la téléphonie mobile
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 259 pp.
"Entre hybridation et réinvention, les pratiques communicationnelles liées à la téléphonie mobile offrent des perspectives de recherche stimulantes. Pour les opérateurs de téléphonie, il s’ouvre un réel champ, où d’observation en expérimentation, se créent de nouvelles offres. Au-del
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Cyberpsychology
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), xi, 278 pp.
