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Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies: Publics See Mobile Phones and Social Media Bringing Certain Benefits to Them and Their Societies. But These Views Are Paired with Widespread Concerns About Their Impact on Children
Pew Research Center (2019), 92 pp.
"Surveys conducted in 11 emerging and developing countries across four global regions [Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; South Africa and Kenya; India, Vietnam and the Philippines; and Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon] find that the vast majority of adults in these countries own – or have access to – a
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Going Deeper: Social Media Use and the Development of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 85-101
"The deepening of democracy in developing regions requires that individuals support their political systems not only through democratic behaviours but also through the continual strengthening of democratic attitudes. Traditional news media have long held a favoured position when it comes to understa
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"Social media use has provided access to entertainment, opportunities for a richer social life, and the ability to communicate with many others in a manner that was not possible just a few decades ago. In SSA, the convergence of homegrown ideas and collaboration with the international community has
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Efecto pantalla: Cómo lograr el equilibrio digital
Buenos Aires: Lea (2019), 189 pp.
"La licenciada en Psicología especializada en adicciones a internet, Laura Jurkowski, ofrece un panorama completo acerca de la presencia de las pantallas en la sociedad, la conducta digital de niños y adultos, los riesgos que surgen cuando se las usa excesivamente, y una guía práctica para padre
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Usages et services d'Internet au Mali: Rôle et positionnement des bibliothèques
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 268 pp.
Internet in Nairobi, Kenia: Medienaneignung als Konstruktion
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2019), 314 pp.
"Johanna Rieß untersucht, wie sich Nutzer_innen aus drei verschiedenen Internetcafés in Nairobi/Kenia das Internet aneignen und welche Einsichten sich über dieses Medium ergeben. Erzählt wird außerdem eine ausführliche Digitalisierungsgeschichte Kenias. Dabei zeigt sich, dass gängige Annahmen
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Social Media Analytics: A Practical Guidebook for Journalists and Other Media Professionals
Key Guides
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 47 pp.
"Part 1 approaches social media analytics from the point of view of media outlets’ most frequent needs. When you set out to analyze your social media activities, it can be hard to know where to start. The first part of the guide helps you to quickly find the answers you need, without having to go
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Digital Vs Traditional Media Consumption: Analyzing Time Devoted to Online and Traditional Forms of Media at a Global Level, as Well as by Age and Across Countries
GlobalWebIndex (2019), 40 pp.
"In this report, GlobalWebIndex offers a unique perspective on day-to-day media consumption behaviors by age and across 41 markets – analyzing how much time people are spending online, tracking the types of media they are consuming and assessing the share of time spent on digital versus traditiona
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2019), 104 pp.
"This 2019 report pays special attention to social media and social media influencers even as it focuses heavily on news media. As always, we look at media use by platform and content while also honing in both generally and in detail on the use of the internet. As a member of the World Internet Proj
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Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app
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Evaluando el desarrollo de Internet en Argentina: Utilizando los indicadores ROAM-X de Universalidad de Internet de la UNESCO
Paris; Montevideo: UNESCO (2019), 275 pp.
Media Influence Matrix: Romania. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: CEU School of Public Policy, Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 23 pp.
"Convergence of services usually affects the quality and price of services offered by providers. However, this has not been the case in Romania yet. People benefit from a very competitive market and enjoy fairly cheap services, but the implications of convergence on the content made available to con
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
Deep Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press (2019), 269 pp.
"The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She fi
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Exploring Digital and Mobile Cultures in Myanmar 2019
Phandeeyar (2019), 41 pp.
Social Media and Journalism in Ethiopia: Setting the Scene for Reform
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute; Nubia Media & Communications (2019), 28 pp.
"Social media has, in a few years, turned the political landscape in Ethiopia on its head not only as a means of mobilising people, but also as a means of spreading rumours, hate speech and disinformation [...] What ultimately is happening is that digital media has made a more invasive, ultimately p
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Investigating Usage of Social Media Platforms in South Africa
African Journal of Information Systems, volume 11, issue 4 (2019), pp. 314-336
"This study investigated the differences in usage of different social media platforms within the South African context, broken down by user characteristics, specifically gender and age, in addition to investigating the correlation between usage of differing social media platforms. This was carried o
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