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The South African Social Media Landscape: Social Media Myths, High Walls and Controlled Data
Sandton (ZA): Ornico (2020), 62 pp.
Meaningful Connectivity: A New Standard to Raise the Bar for Internet Access
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2020), 18 pp.
"The meaningful connectivity standard is a tool to raise the bar for internet access and set more ambitious policy goals for digital development. It sets minimum thresholds across the four dimensions of internet access that matter most to users. These are: regular internet use - minimum threshold: d
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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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Libya Social Media Monitoring Report: Main Findings
Democracy Reporting International; ZINC Network (2020), 10 pp.
"This report presents our main findings from eleven months of social media monitoring. We identify the main narratives of online discourse and their key drivers, as well as the weaknesses of Libya’s social media landscape — and how to address them." (Summary)
"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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Atlas der digitalen Welt
Deep Insights
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2020), 271 pp.
"Jeder, der sich in irgendeiner Form mit digitalen Medien beschäftigt, lebt in einer paradoxen Welt: Denn zu keinem Feld existieren mehr Daten, Informationen und Statistiken. Aber zugleich handelt es sich stets um isolierte, winzige Partikel und Fragmente, die sich nicht integrieren lassen. Das Pro
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The relationship between social media addiction and depression: A quantitative study among university students in Khost, Afghanistan
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, volume 22, issue 1 (2020), pp. 780–786
"This study examined the relationship between social media addiction and depression among students of the universities in Khost province of Afghanistan. Stratified random sampling was used and a 46-items self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 384 students of three universities Shaikh Zay
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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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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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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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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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Internet
Russland-Analysen, issue 388 (2020), pp. 2-11
Measuring News Consumption in a Digital Era: As News Outlets Morph and Multiply, Both Surveys and Passive Data Collection Tools Face Challenges
Pew Research Center (2020), 130 pp.
"In the mid-20th century, when media research came into its own, this task was more straightforward. There were only a few different ways to get news, and all were clearly distinct – print publications, radio or television. But over the past decades, in addition to a plethora of new forms of news
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Media Consumption Report: Platforms and Tools for Reaching and Engaging Urban and Rural Youth
Washington, DC: USAID Cambodia Green Future Activity (2020), iii, 22 pp.
"This report provides an overview of media consumption from the perspectives of selected media practitioners in Cambodia and highlights some of the key communication tools, products, materials, and platforms they have used to reach their respective target audiences. This report maps trends across bo
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Social Media Codes of Conduct: Reflections for Mediators
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2020), 8 pp.
"This article summarises preliminary reflections for mediators on social media codes of conduct. Such codes of conduct, to be agreed upon by conflict stakeholders, would aim to prevent and mitigate the use of social media to exacerbate conflicts or jeopardise peace processes. Such codes of conduct w
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Digital Inequalities in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits,
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Reaching 50 Million Women with Mobile: A Practical Guide
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2020), 41 pp.
"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per
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Beyond Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: The Integrative Potential of the Internet
Berlin, Germany: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2019), 246 pp.
"Are online audiences today fragmented into echo chambers or ilter bubbles? Do users only see what digital platforms (like search engines or social media) let them see? And if so, what are the consequences for the cohesion of a society? Concerns like these abound in recent years. They attest to wide
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Mobile Myanmar: The Impact of Social Media on Young People in Conflict-Affected Regions of Myanmar
Singapore: Save the Children; University of Sydney (2019), 137 pp.
"Most young people lack the digital citizenship skills required to protect themselves from the online dangers and emotional and mental health impacts of social media highlighted in this report. The study finds evidence that young people across Myanmar suffer from ‘hate speech fatigue’, often exa
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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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