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The Mobile Economy 2018
London: GSMA (2018), 56 pp.
"Having surpassed 5 billion people connected to mobile services in 2017, the global mobile industry will reach further milestones over the next eight years. The number of unique mobile subscribers will reach 5.9 billion by 2025, equivalent to 71% of the world’s population. Growth will be driven by
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"Free Internet" and the Costs to Media Pluralism: The Hazards of Zero-Rating the News
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 20 pp.
"In many countries, mobile operators have teamed up with social media platforms to offer free access to specific websites or internet services—including news websites. The most well-known of these offerings, Facebook’s Free Basics, has been explicitly pitched as a way to give citizens in develop
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Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 225-241
"In this chapter we have offered an interpretation of the first twenty years of mobile telephony in marginal zones in Africa. With case-studies from central Mali, anglophone Cameroon and south-east Angola, we focused on the changes in both communication and mobility patterns, specifically in connect
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Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health an Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Data & Society Research Institute (2018), 40 pp.
"The study reveals key aspects of digital connectivity in the lives of refugees at the Ritsona camp in Greece in January 2017. Of the approximately 750 residents of the camp, 135 adults were sampled and interviewed [...] Mobile phone access is 'important' to over 80% of refugees in this study. Women
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Digital in 2018: Essential Insights Into Internet, Social Media, Mobile, and E-Commerce Use Around the World
We Are Social; Hootsuite (2018), 153 slides
"Perhaps the most exciting headline in this year’s reports is that global internet users have now passed the 4 billion mark. Well over half of the world’s population now uses the internet, and a quarter of a billion new users came online for the first time during the past 12 months. People are s
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the
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Always On: A Global Perspective of Mobile Consumer Experience
New York: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) (2017), 51 slides
"18 countries participated in the research, 200 representative smartphone owners from each country [...] The majority (63%) of smartphone owners worldwide use their mobile device at least every 30 minutes. This usage includes any and all different ways a mobile device can be used, from making calls,
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Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria: A Case Study of ICT Access and Usage in Lagos Metropolis
Leicester: University of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication, Master of Arts Thesis (2017), 65 pp.
"This research assesses the access and usage of ICT (mobile and smart phones, personal computer, tablets and ipads) and internet by residents of Lagos in Nigeria, with emphasis on the availability and use of ICT for socioeconomic and political growth. ICT access and usage is indispensable in today's
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Mobile Phone Usage in Turkana, Kenya
"This ESOMAR/GRBN Guideline on Mobile Research is intended to support researchers, especially those in small and medium-sized research organisations, in addressing legal, ethical and practical considerations when conducting research using mobile devices. It explains how to apply the fundamental prin
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Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss
New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 228 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
New York; London: Routledge, paperback ed. (2017), xxiii, 558 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s
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Mapping Refugee Media Journeys: Smartphones and Social Media Networks
Open University; France Médias Monde (2016), 103 pp.
"Smartphones and digital connectivity are essential for refugees seeking protection and safety in Europe, but they also carry risks for them. This research identified a huge gap in the provision of relevant, reliable and timely digital news and information for refugees on their journeys and upon arr
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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever
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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that
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Paying for Access or Content? Blurred Understandings of Mobile Internet Data in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda
In: GlobDev 2016: Proceedings Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development
"The paper addresses the blurred understandings of what developing country mobile internet users feel they are paying for. The move towards increasing online news and music consumption around the world has resulted in low growth in paid content consumption and a digital advertising market that is no
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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.
"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont
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Ericsson Mobility Report
Ericsson (2016), 31 pp.
"In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we continue to describe the evolution towards the Networked Society. Between 2015 and 2021, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent, making up close to 16 billion of the total forecast 28 billion
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The Role and Usage of Apps and Instant Messaging in Religious Mass Events
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, volume 4, issue 3 (2016), pp. 29-42
"In the religious sector, for centuries, pilgrimages have been a clear example of mass events of a spiritual nature. Due to globalization and increased mobility, recent times have seen the multiplication of international events without a fixed location: Taizé encounters, Kumbh Mela (India), and Wor
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