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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares
Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.
Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien
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Social Media in Industrial China
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 222 pp.
"Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their
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Paying for Access or Content? Blurred Understandings of Mobile Internet Data in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda
In: GlobDev 2016: Proceedings Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development
"The paper addresses the blurred understandings of what developing country mobile internet users feel they are paying for. The move towards increasing online news and music consumption around the world has resulted in low growth in paid content consumption and a digital advertising market that is no
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Ocho claves para entender las audiencias digitales en Colombia: Redes sociales, público universitario y dispositivos móviles como factores de sostenibilidad de las empresas periodísticas
Bogotá: Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI); Universidad de los Andes (2016), 58 pp.
"La sostenibilidad de los medios depende en gran medida de las nuevas relaciones que tejen con su audiencia poniendo la tecnología a su servicio. El desafío al que el periodismo y los medios se enfrentan es pensar cómo usar la información que capturan de los recorridos de sus usuarios en la red
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Millennials en Latinoamérica: Una perspectiva desde Ecuador
Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2016), xi, 124 pp.
"El estudio se ocupa de analizar la relación de los millenials con la tecnología desde diferentes ámbitos de interés de su cotidianidad, como el trabajo, la educación, el acceso a la información o las actividades de ocio, y presenta una serie de retos y oportunidades alrededor de cada uno de e
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Reimagining Internet Geographies: A User-Centric Ethnological Mapping of the World Wide Web
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 21, issue 3 (2016), pp. 230-246
"We propose a new user-Centric imagery of the WWW that foregrounds local usage and its shaping forces, in contrast to existing imageries that prioritize Internet infrastructure. We construct ethnological maps of WWW usage through a network analysis of shared global traffic between 1000 most popular
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Media Use in the Middle East 2016: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2016), 110 pp.
"It is too often assumed anyone can communicate via the internet or share in the benefits of easily available newspapers and free-to-air television or radio; this is not always true. Lower internet penetration and mobile broadband access in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, for example, stand in sha
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Cyberpsychologie: Leben im Netz. Wie das Internet uns verändert
München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) (2016), 351 pp.
"Das Internet hat Auswirkungen auf die Persönlichkeit, auf Einstellungen und Werthaltungen. In der digitalen Welt kann sich jeder neu definieren, in die Anonymität abtauchen und ein neues Ich erfinden. Alle Facetten menschlicher Erfahrungen und Verhaltensweisen finden sich nicht nur wieder, sonder
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Digital News Report 2016
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.
"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and
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An Introduction to Cyberpsychology
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xx, 326 pp.
Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp
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Facets of Facebook: Use and Users
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), x, 328 pp.
"The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook. Facebook has many facets, and we just look forward above all to the use and users. The facet
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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever
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From Garamut to Mobile Phone: Communication Change in Rural Papua New Guinea
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 4, issue 2 (2016), pp. 270-287
"This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption. The research indicates that the introduction of mobile telecommunications has generally been viewed positively, with mo
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Applied Cyberpsychology: Practical Applications of Cyberpsychological Theory and Research
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvii, 266 pp.
"Cyberpsychology is an emerging area of psychological study that aims to understand and explain all facets of online behaviour. This book brings together overviews from a number of leading authorities in the field, to suggest how academic theory and research can be applied to a variety of online beh
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Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda
Farnham: Caribou Digital Publishing (2015), 186 pp.
"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli
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