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The rise of digital wellbeing: A qualitative content analysis of choice architectures within digital wellbeing applications
University of Boras, Bachelor Thesis (2021), 43 pp.
"This study examines choice architectures within contemporary digital wellbeing applications to better understand their design and structure. Specifically, it investigates how design influences decision-making processes and self-regulatory systems. Empirical data was gathered from six digital wellbe
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Audience Transformations and New Audio Experiences: An Analysis of the Trends and Consumption Habits of Podcasts by Brazilian Listeners
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 381-405
"According to a Voxnest report, 2019 was 'the year of the podcast in Brazil' (2019, page 4). The audio solutions provider reveals data on the increasing production and consumption of podcasts in Brazil in 2019 and how it continues to grow in 2020, despite the pandemic (Voxnest, 2020). This is the pr
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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.
"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indige
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Social Media Usage During Covid-19 Pandemic: Beneficial or Injurious to Public Health in Nigeria?
Abuja Journal of Philosophy and Theology (APT), volume 11 (2021), pp. 67-82
"Before the outbreak of COVID-19 from the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019, many people across the globe, Nigerians inclusive already relied on social media to gather and disseminate information and news. Since the outbreak of the virus on February 27th, 2020 in Nigeria, people have depended on
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The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 239 pp.
"In a general climate where facts and misinformation blur, and are intentionally blurred, this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information, and what can be done to counter misinformation? All three of these aspects need to be understood in the context of online social
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From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2021), 13 pp.
"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de
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TikTok: Más allá de la hipermedialidad
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2021), 155 pp.
Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc
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Peruano digital
Lima: Ipsos Perú (2021), 1 p.
"Se estima que 9.1 millones de peruanos son digitales. Representan el 54% de la población urbana de 18 a 70 años." (Página 1)
Le Smartphone Global: Au-delà d’une technologie destinée aux jeunes
London: UCL Press (2021), xxvii, 311 pp.
"[...] 11 anthropologues ont passé chacun 16 mois dans des communautés en Afrique, en Asie, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud pour analyser l’utilisation des smartphones par les personnes âgées. Leur recherche montre que les smartphones sont une technologie pour tous, qui n’est pas seulement
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The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2021), viii, 231 pp.
"Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and prac
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Refuge and Risk: Life Online for Vulnerable Young People
London: Youthworks; Internet Matters (2021), 38 pp.
"Young people’s behaviour online is influenced less by rules about online safety than about how they feel. It is influenced by emotional needs, pre-existing vulnerabilities and the support around them.
Implications for professionals
1. These messages from young people can help those working in ser
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Understanding How Young Cambodians (15-30 Year Olds) Use Media and Information: Key Findings
BBC Media Action (2021), 6 pp.
"Social media is the most popular form of media, consumed by 87% of 15-30 year old Cambodians. Nevertheless, traditional mass media (television and radio) remain important, particularly for more vulnerable groups. For example, TV usage is higher amongst women, those from rural locations, and those f
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Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya
Bamenda: Langaa (2021), 208 pp.
"In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in
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Digital Anthropology
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xii, 336 pp.
"Digital Anthropology 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the moral universal
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How the Middle East Used Social Media in 2020
New Media Academy (2021), 64 pp.
"1. Social Media Users in MEA (Middle East and Africa) spend the most time on social networks, averaging over 3.5 hours per day. Internet users in the MEA have an average of 8.4 social media accounts, research reveals. UAE, with an average of 10.5 accounts, has “the highest number of social media
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On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse from Empirical Findings
Frontiers in Public Health, volume 9, issue 641673 (2021), 6 pp.
"TikTok (in Chinese: DouYin; formerly known as musical.ly) currently represents one of the most successful Chinese social media applications in the world. Since its founding in September 2016, TikTok has seen widespread distribution, in particular, attracting young users to engage in viewing, creati
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