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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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The Dynamics of Digital Media in the Philippines: Legacies and Potentials
Media International Australia, volume 179, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-95
Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), iv, 26 pp.
"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi
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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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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)
"Over half a billion people who are living in areas with a mobile broadband network are not using mobile internet, despite substantial increases in mobile broadband coverage since 2014. Significant gender and rural-urban gaps persist. Women are 37% less likely to use mobile internet than men. Signif
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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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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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The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
London: UCL Press (2021), xxiv; 295 pp.
"The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their r
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The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp.
"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen
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Hungry for Content: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Media Usage in the Middle East and North Africa
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 5 pp.
"The pandemic marks a new technological milestone in audiences’ media usage and habits, one that has thus far been both positive – through the interconnectedness and agency – and negative – because of a lack of access for some – for cultural diversity and intercultural relations. The adopt
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TikTok: Más allá de la hipermedialidad
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2021), 155 pp.
Minimum Data Consumption: How Much is Needed to Support Online Activities, and is it Affordable?
Deep Insights
World Bank (2021), 19 pp.
"The primary payment method for mobile internet usage in most developing countries is prepaid, with the amount tied to a specific volume of data usage. Data volume is therefore a useful yardstick to determine how much is needed to carry out important welfare enhancing activities online. For foundati
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Youth and Independent Media in Tunisia: Focus Group Findings
Metn (LB): Samir Kassir Foundation (2021), 6 pp.
"1. Participants used a mix of social media platforms and TV/radio to acquire news. Word of mouth was also a noteworthy source of information. Many participants expressed a distaste for comment sections. It was generally agreed that information found on social media should not be taken as truth.
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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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Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse
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Online Survey on Youth, Social Media, and Violence in Sri Lanka
London: British Council (2021), 103 pp.
