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The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 128 pp.
"Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of inequality, or whether it also includes new forms of social exclusion, or perhaps manifests counter-trends that alle
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The Arab Social Media Report 2017: Social Media and the Internet of Things. Towards Data-Driven Policymaking in the Arab World
Deep Insights
Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 85 pp.
"The report has two main parts. In the first part, we explore the questions discussed in the previous paragraphs [on the internet of things] through a regional survey spanning the 22 Arab countries. In the second part we continue the tradition set in the previous editions of the Arab Social Media Re
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Young and Online: Children’s Perspectives on Life in the Digital Age. The State of the World’s Children 2017 Companion Report
Sydney: Western Sydney University (2017), 91 pp.
"In June 2017, 490 children aged 10–18, from 26 different countries and speaking 24 official languages, participated in workshops held by UNICEF Country Offices and National Committees to share their views on how and why they use digital technologies in their everyday lives, as well as their aspir
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Mobile Phone Usage in Turkana, Kenya
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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Kids online: Chic@s conectados. Investigación sobre precepciones y hábitos de niños, niñas y adolescentes en internet y redes sociales
Buenos Aires: UNICEF (2016), 61 pp.
"En Argentina hay más de 13 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNyA). 6 de cada 10 se comunican usando celular y 8 de cada 10 usan Internet. La tecnología atraviesa su existencia, impacta en sus modos de conocer, aprender, expresarse, divertirse y comunicarse. Para los chicos y chicas, los
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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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"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that
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Indigenous Social Media Practices in Southwestern Amazonia
AlterNative: An International Journal, volume 11, issue 4 (2016), pp. 350-362
"This article discusses how the use of social media fosters, motivates, and regulates social relations among the Arawakan- and Panoan- speaking indigenous groups in the state of Acre and the southern part of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, where even the smallest towns have recently received highspee
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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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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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"This thesis is a theoretically framed and historically informed sociological analysis of how digital technology usage shapes religious identity in Pakistan. The development literature is dominated by assumptions of technologically driven progress towards secularisation and studies of technology pro
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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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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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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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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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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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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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How the World Changed Social Media
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xxiv, 262 pp.
"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re
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