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2014 Asia Pacific Digital Overview
We Are Social (2014), 213 pp.
Wissenskluft und Digital Divide
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 121 pp.
"Der Band gibt eine fundierte, knappe und anschauliche Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen, methodischen Zugänge, empirischen Befunde und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge der Wissenskluftforschung. Diese geht von wachsenden Wissensdifferenzen zwischen statushöheren und -niedrigeren Gruppi
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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results
London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium
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Digital News Report 2014
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.
"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their
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Digital Youth Cultures in Small Town and Rural Gujarat, India
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 6 (2014), pp. 983-1001
"Youth in this study treat new media and technologies as one limited component of otherwise rich lives and social experiences. While new technologies promote individualistic mobility, Indian youth of small towns and rural places still live in collective social structures that shape their orientation
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Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389
"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c
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Fights, Adapts, Accepts: Archetypes of Iranian Internet Use
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 24 pp.
"The Internet is one of the few remaining platforms where Iranians can practice some level of open debate, less susceptible to social and political limitations. Research on Internet use in Iran sheds light on a large online community engaged in a diversity of activities and expanding at a significan
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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia
Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.
"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment”
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The Global Social Network Landscape: A Country-By-Country Guide to Social Network Usage
eMarketer (2013), 40 pp.
"Though Facebook’s near-ubiquitous lead might indicate that the global social network landscape is simplifying, it quickly becomes clear this is not the case. This report aims to help marketers assess the social network landscape in 27 countries by briefly examining four key factors: top social ne
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"The study focused on exploring how 152 children, 12 to 17 years old, in Kenya, use social media and other digital technologies, and what impact these technologies have on this group, particularly from the perspective of child rights. The study involved holding digital youth clinics in four location
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s
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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), 15 pp.
"This study demonstrates that critical discourse analysis can be used to quickly discern the identity of a political actor and make accurate predictions about that actor’s intentions and goals, even in the context of a revolution. This study’s authors used critical discourse analysis to empirica
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Internet und soziale Netzwerke in Russland
Russland-Analysen, issue 264 (2013), pp. 2-17
Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 3 (2013), pp. 249-337
"The articles collected in this special issue share a common focus: young adults’ use of new media for civic engagement in South and Southeast Asia. Youth engagement problems are evident when established democracies witness a decline in youth participation in traditional civic activities (e.g., vo
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The World Internet Project: International Report
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Center for the Digital Future, 5th ed. (2013), 87 pp.
Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.
"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept
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Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific
London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.
Youth Culture and Mobiles
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-88
"The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and
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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.
"Integrating insights from cultural anthropology, folklore, digital humanities, and digital heritage studies, this work brims with case studies that provide in-depth discussions of applied projects. Web links to multimedia examples are included as well, including projects, design documents, and othe
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