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Social Media, Youth, and the Global South: Comparative Perspectives

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 292 pp.

This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South. By examining the profound impact on the psychosocial well-being and economic prospects of young people across diverse regions, the collection present empirical evidence from scholars spannin ... more

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Everyday Media Literacy: An Analog Guide for Your Digital Life

Sue Ellen Christian

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2024), xiii, 294 pp.

"The textbook applies media literacy principles and critical thinking to the key issues facing young adults today, from analyzing and creating media messages to verifying information and understanding online privacy. rough discussion prompts, writing exercises, key terms, and links, readers are pro ... more

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Digital Surveillance, Online and Offline Harassment, and Feminist Media Politics

Millie Phiri

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 88-106

"This chapter examines the digital surveillance and harassment experiences faced by female journalists in Zimbabwe in the 2023 pre-election period covering the year 2022 up to August 2023. The examination is based on interviews conducted with seven purposefully selected female reporters and editors ... more

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Constructive AI Compass: Knowledge, Tools and Tips for Everyday Journalism

Bonn: Bonn Institute (2024), 72 pp.

"This little booklet is brimming with AI knowledge and sample prompts that can help with brainstorming ideas, conducting research and preparing for interviews. How does artificial intelligence work? How did it come about, and what impact does it have on the environment? What are the legal parameters ... more

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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide, Tristan Mattelart (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.

"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who ... more

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Data grab: The new colonialism of big tech and how to fight back

Ulises Ali Mejias, Nick Couldry

London: WH Allen (2024), x, 303 pp.

"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populati ... more

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Exploraciones posthumanas: Del algoritmo al robot plantoide

Sebastián Botticelli, Jonathan Piedra Alegría, Alfredo Saab Monroy, Félix Raúl Martínez Cleves

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2024), 194 pp.

"Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo colectivo llevado a cabo por cuatro filósofos que habitan diferentes puntos de Latinoamérica, reunidos a partir de su interés por el campo de tensiones que se despliega entre las tradiciones humanistas y las perspectivas poshumanistas. Los capítulos prob ... more

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Einblicke in eine neue Mediennutzungstypologie: Medien und Lebenswelten als strategisches Instrument: Die Digital Media Types

Annika Mollenkopf, Sylvia Feuerstein, Matthias Eckert, Marlene Handel, Victoria Winkler

Media Perspektiven, issue 4 (2024), 11 pp.

"Mit den Digital Media Types wurde die MedienNutzerTypologie für die digitale Welt weiterentwickelt. Sie bilden verschiedene Lebensstile und -welten ab, die Einfluss auf die Mediennutzung haben. Programmentwickler können sie als strategisches Instrument einsetzen, um spezifische Interessen und Bed ... more

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Inteligencia artificial para la generación de contenidos en Iberoamérica: Experiencias editoriales en medios de comunicación

Alexis Apablaza-Campos, Jaime Andrés Wilches Tinjacá (eds.)

Bogotá: Data Factory (2024), 136 pp.

Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age

Jörg Scheffer

Wiesbaden: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 166 pp.

"Contrary to the prevailing narratives of "digital empowerment" and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially di ... more

Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg et al.

Political Communication, volume 41, issue 1 (2024), pp. 129-151

"Most scholars focus on the prevalence and democratic effects of (partisan) news exposure. This focus misses large parts of online activities of a majority of politically disinterested citizens. Although political content also appears outside of news outlets and may profoundly shape public opinion, ... more

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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power

Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2024), xiii, 241 pp.

"Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and polit ... more

Momente der Datafizierung: Zur Produktionsweise von Personendaten in der Datenökonomie

Markus Unternährer

Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 257 pp.

Impacts of AI Technologies on Palestinian Lives and Narratives

Ameera Kawah

Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media (2024), 15 pp.

Nutzung digitaler Medien im Kindes- und Jugendalter

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DAK-Gesundheit (2024), 42 slides

Mediensucht nach der Pandemie

DAK-Gesundheit (2024), 39 pp.

Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research

Simeon Yates, Elinor Carmi (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 277 pp.

"With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19, the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion, Policy and Research Conference, with chapters from both academia and civic organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed citizens' relationship with digital technologies for the foreseeable ... more

Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023

Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xxiv, 149 pp.

"The new series Digital Progress and Trends Report adopts a holistic framework of digitalization, with selective topics examined in depth in each edition. The framework [...] includes both the production and the adoption sides of digital technologies and their interactions. Box ES.1 explains how the ... more

Systematic Prejudices: An Investigation into Bias Against Women and Girls in Large Language Models

Noah Siegel, Jackie Kay

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 20 pp.