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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa
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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
New
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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Zwischen Bildschirmzeit und Selbstregulation: Soziale Medien im Alltag von Jugendlichen
Düsseldorf: Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland (2025), 44 pp.
"Soziale Medien sind aus dem Alltag junger Menschen in Deutschland nicht mehr wegzudenken: Ein großer Teil (69 %) der Jugendlichen verbringt mehr als die vom Bundesinstitut für Öffentliche Gesundheit empfohlenen zwei Stunden täglich am Bildschirm (vgl. BIÖG, o. D.). Davon weisen 27 % eine tägl
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Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 261-287
"Die audiovisuelle Plattform TikTok bildet mittlerweile einen relevanten Aushandlungsort für soziale Gruppen aller Art. User*innen bietet sich die Möglichkeit, eigene Räume für Vernetzung zu schaffen und Identitätsmanagement zu betreiben. Aufgrund der Plattformaffordanzen – vor allem Multimod
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Wanderer between the worlds: Telegram use from the users’ perspective
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 133-155
"The messenger Telegram has gained importance for the mediated constitution of counterpublics in German-speaking countries since 2020. However, most research on Telegram focuses on the content shared and the networks that have developed on the platform. Meanwhile, knowledge about the users of counte
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Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia
Dordrecht: Springer (2025), viii, 235 pp.
"This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context. By studying the impact of mobile media on children and youth in Asia, it focuses on the explosive growth of mobile media among young people and seeks to understand the potential consequences of mobile media use o
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L’essor des technologies numériques en Côte d’Ivoire: Réalités et enjeux
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 227 pp.
"Au début du troisième millénaire, la Côte d’Ivoire, à l’instar d’autres pays africains, au sortir de sommets internationaux, tirant la « sonnette d’alarme » sur la nécessité de combler le fossé numérique entre le Sud et le Nord, va prendre des initiatives en vue de favoriser la p
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
London: University of Westminster Press (2025), xi, 194 pp.
"This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by
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Mitigating loneliness and remediating solitude: Pandemic narratives from the Global South
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 19 pp.
"Set in the Global South context of India, this article examines how users of digital media used their platforms and devices to mitigate loneliness and create moments of solitude during the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, experiencing loneliness has been understood as debilitating but solitude has
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Opportunities, Challenges and the Mitigation Strategies of the Young Indigenous Social Media Users of the Chitagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
Yokohama, Japan: CHI ’25, April 26–May 01, 2025 (2025), 22 pp.
"The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh is home to numerous Indigenous ethnic communities, and their languages, rituals, and values are distinct from those of the mainstream population. These diferences, coupled with the past eight decades of turbulent political history, have contributed to
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Venezuela digital 2025: Estadísticas imprescindibles
Guayoyo Marketing; We Are Social, marzo 17 (2025)
"Un total de 22,5 millones de conexiones móviles celulares estaban activas en Venezuela a principios de 2025, siendo esta cifra equivalente al 79,1 por ciento de la población total. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que algunas de estas conexiones sólo incluyen servicios como voz y SMS, y otra
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Resonanz und Entfremdung auf Facebook: Möglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen digitaler Weltbeziehungen
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 309 pp.
"In einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt prägen soziale Medien wie Facebook unseren Alltag - aber ermöglichen sie auch echte Resonanzerfahrungen? Basierend auf der Resonanztheorie von Hartmut Rosa untersucht Lisa Waldenburger, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Nutzer*innen in den sozialen Medien Re
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Why do people spread fake news? Modelling the factors that influence social media users’ fake news sharing behaviour
Information Development, volume 41, issue 1 (2025), pp. 48-60
"This study modelled the factors that influence fake news spreading behaviour among social media users. To gather our data, we used an online survey to sample 385 social media users in Nigeria, using a chain referral approach. Smart PLS structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data (SEM
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Zwischen Wertschätzung und Widerstand: Algorithmische Kompetenz junger Menschen am Beispiel der Kurzvideoplattform TikTok
Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institut (2025), 64 pp.
"In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, was Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene über die Funktionsweise des algorithmischen Empfehlungssystems (AES) von TikTok wissen, inwiefern sie damit interagieren und welche Emotionen dabei involviert sind. Dazu wurden sechs Fokusgruppen (n=31) in drei deuts
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Measuring Digital Development. Facts and Figures: Focus on Landlocked Developing States
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 33 pp.
"Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face unique development challenges. Higher transportation costs, trade barriers, and limited connectivity impede economic integration. LLDCs rely on neighbouring countries for access to trade routes, resulting in delays and higher costs. These countries also
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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Nuestras apps de cada día 2024: Segundo informe sobre el uso de plataformas digitales en Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2024), 30 pp.
"La información que se presenta a continuación desafía premisas establecidas sobre el uso de plataformas digitales en Costa Rica. Por ejemplo, sen confirma que Facebook sigue siendo la red social más utilizada en el país, a pesar de la variedad de oferta, el surgimiento de nuevas opciones y not
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Connected Resilience: Gendered Experiences of Meaningful Connectivity through a Global Pandemic
Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 57 pp.
"Looking at patterns between those with meaningful connectivity — defined as having daily internet use with 4G-like speeds, owning a smartphone, and an unlimited access point at home, work, or a place of study — and those with just basic or no internet access at all, we saw key distinctions betw
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Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age
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
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