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Keeping it Real: An Exploratory Study of How 13-14-Year-Olds Critically Engage with Online Content
Deep Insights
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 43 pp.
"We recruited participants aged 13-14 in three countries: Mexico, South Africa and the Netherlands. Through a questionnaire, an observation exercise and interviews, we gathered information in order to identify trends [...] We constructed a number of global personas that cut across the groups. Safety
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Limited Internet Access in Zimbabwe a Major Hurdle for Remote Learning During Pandemic
Afrobarometer (2020), 13 pp.
"The government of Zimbabwe is encouraging the use of digital platforms to provide remote learning services during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data showing that most households lack Internet access and reliable electricity suggest that many students will find it difficult or impossible to participate
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Así dio vuelta el consumo mediático en El Salvador durante la COVID-19
Santa Tecla: Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera (2020), 51 pp.
Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures
Geneva: ITU (2020), 17 pp.
"Facts and Figures 2020 reveals that people in rural areas continue to face greater challenges than people in urban areas in terms of remaining connected during the lockdown, especially in developing economies. Large swathes of the rural landscape are still not covered by mobile broadband networks,
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"There are now more than 3.8 billion mobile internet subscribers globally, representing 49% of the world’s population. However, adoption has not been equitable, with mobile internet adoption standing at 26% in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2019. The region accounts for almost half of the global
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Our Lives Online: Use of Social Media by Children and Adolescents in East Asia. Opportunities, Risks and Harms
Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office; Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (2020), 68 pp.
"This study is a snapshot of children’s use of social media in East Asia, focusing on four countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The research incorporates the experiences of 301 children across the four countries, including 121 street children and refugees, collected through a ser
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Digital Literacy: A Review of Literature
International Journal of Technoethics, volume 11, issue 2 (2020), pp. 65-94
"Information and communication technologies (ICT) along with the internet have fueled advancements and growth in banking, transportation, economics, and most of all in education in the 21st century. The 21st century citizens are provided with new opportunities that have been created with the advance
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Undergraduate Students and Time Spent on Social Networking Sites: A Study of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 3 (2020), pp. 57-72
"Social media sites allow students particularly in tertiary institutions to adopt different types of social networking sites to interact; keep in touch with their families and friends and keep up with their academic assignments. Conversely, there has been a growing concern that students at the terti
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Identidad digital: Cómo administrar la presencia en la red
Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 50 pp.
"Deberemos nacer —mejor dicho, renacer— en Internet si queremos tener futuro. De ahí la importancia de los dominios personales, de los nick names, de los avatares y de nuestros perfiles públicos en redes sociales. Somos el rastro que dejamos y el que otros dejan de nosotros. Es lo primero que
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Africa’s Digital Divide and the Promise of E-Learning
Deep Insights
Afrobarometer (2020), 18 pp.
"On average across 34 countries, one in five adults (20%) have access to both a smartphone and a computer, while 43% only have access to a basic cell phone. In 15 out of 34 countries, at least half of adults have access to a smartphone or a computer or both. About three in 10 respondents (31%) use t
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Internet
Russland-Analysen, issue 388 (2020), pp. 2-11
Who influences Ukrainian youth on social media?
Washington, DC: IREX (2020), 6 pp.
"Top influencers are Ulana Suprun, Yanina Sokolova, and Serhiy Prytula. Most influential nonprofit organizations are the educational platforms Osvita.ua and Promotheus. Individual personalities are more influential than organizations. National platforms are more influential than regional platforms.
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Manual for measuring ICT access and use by households and individuals
Geneva: ITU (2020), xii, 335 pp.
Since ITU first published this Manual in 2009, the digital technology sector has evolved almost beyond recognition. The Internet is now accessed through a multitude of devices, including mobile phones, tablets and similar handheld computers. The impressive spread of mobile broadband networks has bro
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An Analysis of Social Media Use in the SADC Region 2014 - 2020
Harare: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA); Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 51 pp.
"I. Regional countries spend about 1.1 percent of GDP on digital investment, while advanced economies spend an average of 3.2 percent
II. 37% of social media users in the region have contributed to the creation of news, commented on it or shared it with others.
III. There is an upward trend in arres
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Prosumidores y comunicación en la era digital
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 107 pp.
Consumo de podcast en Argentina: Encuesta 2020
Drop The Mic (2020), 32 pp.
"La encuesta se realizó entre el 10 y 20 de abril a través de un formulario de Google compartido por redes de contactos y en redes sociales (principalmente Twitter). Las 2.325 respuestas no representan al universo de oyentes de podcasts ya que no se realizó ningún trabajo estadístico sobre la m
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Jugend 2019: Eine Generation meldet sich zu Wort
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 383 pp.
"The study revealed some clear patterns about why people fall for misinformation, regardless of their age, gender or education level. Some of the key trends common across city and village respondents were: 1. Majority of the respondents do not question the source of the information, or assess if the
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