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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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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever
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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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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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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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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 the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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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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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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Study of Internet Connected Cambodians: Perceptions of Online Freedom of Expression and Political Engagement
Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) (2015), 34 pp.
"Data for this report were gathered through an electronic survey of 895 Cambodian Internet users conducted from March 12 to 18, 2015, as well as through three follow-up focus group discussions [...] Cambodians find the Internet to be useful for personal, professional and civic interests, with the ma
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Media Use in the Middle East 2015: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2015), 73 pp.
"Especially notable in the 2015 study is that most people access the internet on their phones rather than by laptop or desktop computers. That’s true in every country in our sample, except Egypt, where an ailing economy has slowed the adoption of new technologies common elsewhere in the region and
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Social Web: Ausdifferenzierung der Nutzung – Potenziale für Medienanbieter. Ergebnisse der ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie 2015
Media Perspektiven, issue 10 (2015), pp. 442-452
"Die Nutzung von sozialen Medien ist 2015 ein weiteres Jahr in Folge nicht angestiegen. Die wahrscheinlichste Ursache hierfür ist, dass private Kommunikation verstärkt ins Instant Messaging – namentlich WhatsApp – abwandert. In der jungen Zielgruppe steigen vor allem die Nutzerzahlen der Fotoc
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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81
"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians
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Muslims in Cyberspace: Exploring Factors Influencing Online Religious Engagements in Malaysia
Media Asia, volume 42, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 61-73
"The emergence of Islam and Muslim public spheres in cyberspace has progressed along with the development of Information and Communication Technologies. Just like believers of other faiths, Muslim individuals are enthusiastic in sharing their faith, beliefs, and values at the click of a mouse. Based
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Uso del internet en el Perú
Lima: GfK Perú (2015), 30 pp.
"El número de usuarios de Internet en el Perú llega al 42%. Esta cifra se incrementa cuando se considera únicamente el ámbito urbano (50%) y se reduce considerablemente en el entorno rural, donde la conectividad llega a sólo 18%." (Página 6)
On the Liveness of Mobile Phone Mediation: Youth Expectations of Remittances and Narratives of Discontent in the Cameroonian Transnational Family
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 3, issue 1 (2015), pp. 20-35
"Drawn from multisited fieldwork conducted among Cameroonians in Germany and Cameroon, the article reveals that the liveness of mobile phone communication influences expectations and narratives of remittances in Cameroonian transnational social relationships. These expectations are meaningful within
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Smartphones
Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39
"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their
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Cyberpsychology
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), xi, 278 pp.
