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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr ... more

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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
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arjun Khanna, Sara Chamberlain

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)

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The Mobile Economy 2022

GSMA (2022), 44 pp.

"The mobile industry has been instrumental in extending connectivity to people around the world. In 2021, the number of mobile internet subscribers reached 4.2 billion people globally. Operators’ investments in network infrastructure over the last decade have helped to shrink the coverage gap for ... more

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Digital Divide: Who in Africa is Connected and Who is Not
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Libuseng Malephane

Afrobarometer (2022), 22 pp.

"Afrobarometer finds that most Africans own a mobile phone and have access to a mobile phone network. However, fewer than half own a mobile phone with Internet access, and even fewer have access to a computer. This translates to low levels of Internet use in many countries. Lack of Internet access a ... more

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Digital 2022: Global Overview Report

Simon Kemp (ed.)

We Are Social; Hootsuite (2022), 300 slides

"Double-digit annual growth has taken the global social media user figure to 4.62 billion, and current trends indicate that it will equal 60 percent of the world’s total population within the next few months. COVID-19 continues to hamper research into internet adoption though, resulting in reporti ... more

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Promise and peril: In changing media landscape, Africans are concerned about social media but opposed to restricting access

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Joseph Koné

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 ... more

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Iranians on #SocialMedia

Holly Dagres

Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2022), 40 pp.

"This report explores the social media habits of Iranian netizens and how the Islamic Republic is repressing the online space." (Publisher description)

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Snap Judgements: How Audiences Who Lack Trust in News Navigate Information on Digital Platforms

Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 43 pp.

"In this report, we qualitatively examine how audiences who lack trust in most news organisations in their countries navigate the digital information environment, especially how they make sense of the news they encounter while using social media, messaging applications, or search engines. Drawing on ... a sample of 100 individuals in four countries – Brazil, India, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) – we centre on how they use Facebook, WhatsApp, and Google, based on a unique interviewing approach anchored in their concrete everyday experiences. Participants were asked to describe and respond to what they actually saw on their screens as they navigated these platforms in real time while speaking to members of our research team. This research is focused on individuals with minimal trust in most news sources and below-average interest in politics – a population often neglected in audience research since these individuals tend to be least likely to consume news. However, for that same reason, understanding the way they encounter and engage with information online is of particular importance. Indeed, in line with prior survey-based research (Toff et al. 2021c), we found these individuals tended to be indifferent towards, or even opposed to, the idea of receiving news through platforms, which they said they primarily used for other purposes. What we found is that when they did encounter news on platforms and sought to assess how credible the information might be, they often relied on cues for making quick, in-the-moment judgements, which were particularly important since many of these users rarely clicked through to the original sources of news. The mental shortcuts people discussed, summarised in Figure 1, involved (1) pre-existing ideas they held about news in general or specific news brands (where the information was coming from), but also several other factors: (2) social cues from family and friends (who shared or engaged with the news), (3) the tone and wording of headlines (whether or not it was perceived as clickbait), (4) the use of visuals (which they often saw as important evidence for what could or could not be trusted), and (5) the presence of advertising (whether or not information appeared to be sponsored). Additional (6) platform-specific cues also played a role in shaping judgements about what to trust. These involved design decisions around how information appears on platforms (e.g. what labels appear, what is given most prominence), which in turn affect many of these other cues." (Introduction and key findings, page 3) more

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Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media

Rhys Crilley, Marie Gillespie, Bertie Vidgen, Alistair Willis

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 1 (2022), pp. 220-242

"The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) has attracted much attention as a purveyor of Russian propaganda. To date, most studies of RT have focused on its broadcast, website, and social media content, with little research on its audiences. Through a data-driven ... more

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Digital Access and Barriers in Displacement-Affected Communities in White Nile, Sudan: Results of a Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment (CoNUA) by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the GSMA and REACH Initiative

Penelope Caswell, Matthew Drowner

London: GSMA (2022), 38 pp.

"This report shares findings on the access and use of mobile technology among South Sudanese refugees and the communities that host them in three areas of White Nile, Sudan. White Nile is a state in southern Sudan sharing a border and refugee crossing points with South Sudan. It is home to nearly 70 ... more

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Data for Development: Harnessing Digital Media Intelligence

Michael Urquhart, Liz Carlile

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2022), 4 pp.

"Internet access is exploding around the world. In the 10 years up to 2021, the proportion of people around the world with access to the internet grew from 33 to 63%, and by 2022 the number of active social media users hit 4.62 billion. Policymakers and opinion formers have an opportunity to tap int ... more

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Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Aviva Wei Xue, Kate Rose

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 ... more

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Digital Inequality Beyond the Digital Divide: Conceptualizing Adverse Digital Incorporation in the Global South

Richard Heeks

Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 688-704

"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi ... more

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Specification Curve Analysis Shows That Social Media Use is Linked to Poor Mental Health, Especially Among Girls

Jean M Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Jimmy Lozano, Kevin M. Cummins

Acta Psychologica, volume 224, issue 103512 (2022), 11 pp.

"An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the association between adolescent technology use and mental health/well-being. The paper concluded that an association exists but is ... more

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Identidad en la era digital: Construcción de perfiles en redes sociales en adolescentes chilenos/as

Verónica Gómez-Urrutia, Andrés Jiménez Figueroa

Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, volume 29, issue e17430 (2022), 25 pp.

"Este artículo tiene como objetivo caracterizar las lógicas que moldean la construcción de perfiles e identidades digitales utilizadas por los y las adolescentes como parte de sus interacciones en redes sociales en Chile. Al usar una aproximación cuantitativa que incluyó la adaptación y valida ... more

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TikTok/Douyin Use and its Influencer Video Use: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Chinese and US Users

Yang Yang

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 339-368

"This cross-cultural comparison study between China and the US aimed to examine the short video-sharing social media platform, TikTok/Douyin, particularly its use in the two countries. Because China and the US have some evident differences in cultural values, they are ideal for cross-cultural compar ... more

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Jugendmedienschutzindex 2022. Der Umgang mit onlinebezogenen Risiken: Ergebnisse der Befragung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Eltern

Christa Gebel, Niels Brüggen Claudia Lampert et al.

Berlin: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter (FSM) (2022), 86 pp.

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Handbook of Digital Inequality

Eszter Hargittai (ed.)

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 ... more

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COVID-19, Digital Substitutional and Intersectional Inequality: The Case of South Africa

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 54 pp.

"This study analyses the impacts of COVID-19 and its associated public policy responses on digital and intersectional inequality in South Africa from a demand-side perspective. The overarching research question it seeks to address is: To what extent were people in South Africa able to mitigate the n ... more

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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil

David Nemer

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 ... more

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Digital Divide: Who in Africa is Connected and Who is Not Top Insights

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
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Digital Divide: Who in Africa is Connected and Who is Not
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