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Social Media and Social Change in Jordan: Opportunities and Threats
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 10 pp.
"The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has great humanitarian responsibilities towards a war-torn region. Deliberately referred to as a regional entrepreneurship hub, over eight million of Jordan’s citizens (86.4%) have access to the internet, and they produce more than half of the digital content avail
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Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. (2019), xxx, 438 pp.
"How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and anyone with a serious interest in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. Spaw
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How Social Media Taxes Can Burden News Outlets: The Case of Uganda
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"In July 2018, the government of Uganda implemented a tax on individual users of social media platforms. In the first three months following the introduction of the tax in the country, internet penetration dropped from 47 percent to 35 percent. Given that a significant amount of news circulation now
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Lima digital
Lima: CPI (2019), 4 pp.
"Ocho de cada diez personas en Lima tienen por lo menos una cuenta en una red social." (Página 1)
How Young People Consume News and the Implications for Mainstream Media
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 63 pp.
"Younger audiences are different from older groups not just in what they do, but in their core attitudes in terms of what they want from the news. Young people are primarily driven by progress and enjoyment in their lives, and this translates into what they look for in news. They still need and want
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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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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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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 196 pp.
"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph
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Digital News Report 2018
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 143 pp.
"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. Usage is down six percentage points in the United States, and is also down in the UK and France. Almost all of this is due to a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing o
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A Toolkit for Researching Women’s Internet Access and Use
London: GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r
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"1. Todos los niños uruguayos se conectaron alguna vez a internet [...] 2. El teléfono celular es el dispositivo más usado por los niños para conectarse a internet [...] 3. Los niños no son expertos en el uso de internet [...] 4. Los niños consideran que hay cosas buenas para ellos en internet
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection
Deep Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2018), 79 pp.
"The retrospection, which covers Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, includes the following highlights: Internet penetration has increased in every country since 2013. The biggest increase occurred in Lebanon – from 58 percent to 91 percent in the la
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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
Deep Insights
London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi
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Social Media und psychische Gesundheit: Am Beispiel der Identitätskonstruktion auf Instagram
Communicatio Socialis, volume 51, issue 4 (2018), pp. 467-480
"Jugendliche heute kennen kaum ein Leben ohne Social Media-Plattformen am Smartphone. Untersuchungen legen Zusammenhänge zwischen dieser Mediennutzung und psychischer Gesundheit in der Adoleszenz nahe. Es zeichnen sich positive und negative Effekte ab. Erkenntnisse aus US-amerikanischen und britisc
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The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), xviii, 438 pp.
"Adopting emerging technologies easily, spending a large proportion of time online and multitasking are signs of the increasingly digital nature of our everyday lives. Yet consumer research is just beginning to emerge on how this affects basic human and consumer behaviours such as attention, learnin
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The Dark Side of Social Media: A Consumer Psychology Perspective
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xxiii, 246 pp.
Digitale Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (2018), 245 pp.
"Seit das DSM 5 die »Internet Gambling Disorder« als Störungsbild unter Vorbehalt auswies, sind Medien erstmals in den Einzugsbereich therapeutischen Handelns gerückt. Da für Diagnostik und Therapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit medienbezogenen Störungen von analytischer und tiefenpsycholog
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