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Decoding Social Media’s Role in the Resurgence of the Taliban: A Literature Review
Kabul: Kardan University, Kashmir Research Information System (2023), 22 pp.
"The study assesses the extent to which Taliban 2.0 utilised social media as a political mobilisation strategy and provides a response through discourse analysis and a literature review. The study results indicate that the tactical use of social media was more apparent in 2021 when they were promoti
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La deuda en Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional en Centroamérica: Necesidades de las y los jóvenes en Guatemala y El Salvador para un uso inteligente de medios
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 51 pp.
"Las competencias y conocimientos en Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional (AMI) sirven para enfrentar fenómenos como la desinformación, la discriminación, el discurso de odio y el ciberacoso. La AMI se puede transmitir de diversos modos: se puede aprender con materiales lúdicos en la escue
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To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und
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Generation Z in Chile, Colombia, México, and Panama: Interests and New Digital Consumption Habits. Their Use of Instagram and TikTok
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 15 pp.
"In a reality that combines the virtual with the physical and in a context of information saturation, there are consumers who are more critical, demanding, and less loyal. In this context, it is timely to know the new habits of the Centennials, so as to understand their behaviors and consumption tre
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Les réseaux sociaux : Une communauté de vie. Enjeux et perspectives après 25 ans de nouveaux usages numériques
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 109 pp.
"Sur TikTok, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, certaines idées et certaines personnes semblent plus compter que d'autres. Une nouvelle condition humaine est en train de se façonner. Au cœur des réseaux émerge une nouvelle force : la vivance, traduction du terme anglais liveness, c'est-à-dire la qu
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Promise and peril: In changing media landscape, Africans are concerned about social media but opposed to restricting access
Afrobarometer (2022), 22 pp.
"Radio remains overwhelmingly the most common source for news in Africa. On average across 34 surveyed countries, two-thirds (68%) of respondents tune in at least a few times a week. Digital media use for news is growing quickly. Between 2014/2015 and 2019/2021, the share of Africans who get news fr
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Inclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced People in Nigeria
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 532-557
"Internally Displaced People (IDP) have received less attention in ICT4D research. This study examines how IDP in Africa use mobile phones to enhance their social inclusion. We employed Sen’s Capability Approach as the theoretical lens and a qualitative case study as a methodology. Qualitative dat
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies,
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Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press (2022), 229 pp.
"What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their S
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Jung, digital, unkonventionell: Nachfrage der 'funk'-Angebote steigt. Wie das öffentlich-rechtliche Content-Netzwerk seine Zielgruppe erreicht
Media Perspektiven, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 364-374
"Seit 2016 bietet das öffentlich-rechtliche Content-Netzwerk 'funk' konfektionierte Inhalte für die junge Zielgruppe. Bekanntheit und Reichweite des öffentlich-rechtlichen ContentNetzwerks nehmen seitdem stetig zu. YouTube und Instagram wurden 2021 als Primärplattformen bespielt, da sie von 14-
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Digital Detox Box: Wie wir Abhängigkeiten erkennen und digitales Wohlbefinden stärken können. Methodensammlung für die Schule und außerschulische Jugendarbeit
Ludwigshafen: klicksafe; Medienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (2022), 40 pp.
"Die Box ist eine Sammlung von 16 ausgewählten Methoden aus der medienpädagogischen Praxis der Projekte klicksafe und Handysektor. Hier lernen Jugendliche das eigene Nutzungsverhalten auszuwerten, digitale Geräte bewusster einzusetzen und über digitales Wohlbefinden nachzudenken. Die Strategien
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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022
London: GSMA (2022), 68 pp.
"1. Women’s uptake of mobile internet in lowand middle-income countries continues to increase, but the rate of adoption has slowed. Across low- and middle-income countries, 60 per cent of women now use mobile internet. Only 59 million additional women in low-and middle-income countries started usi
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Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 215 pp.
"On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speec
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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Handbook of Digital Inequality
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2022), xii, 386 pp.
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations em
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Why Aren’t Women Part of the Conversation? A Study of the Gender Gap in Social Media Use in India, its Causes and the Implications for Women’s Empowerment
Deep Insights
BBC Media Action (2022), 12 pp.
"This report summarises learnings from BBC Media Action’s landscaping study of the gendered dimensions of social media access and use in India. It addresses 10 questions that have implications for designing digital solutions for women’s empowerment in India." (Page 2)
