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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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The State of World's Children 2017: Children in a Digital World
New York: UNICEF (2017), vi, 205 pp.
"[This report] surveys the landscape of digital opportunity as it relates to – and affects – children. It examines the digital divides that prevent millions of children from accessing through the internet new opportunities to learn and, someday, to participate in the digital economy, helping to
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Redes sociales, virtualidad y subjetividades
México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2017), 314 pp.
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 Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxiv, 494 pp.
"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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Networks of Communication in South Africa: New Media, New Technologies
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xii, 288 pp.
"R. Sooryamoorthy examines the development of communication patterns, social contacts and networks in South Africa. Based on pioneering quantitative and qualitative data, he analyses trends in changing media use in Africa, showing the development of the use of new media for communication by South Af
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Always On: A Global Perspective of Mobile Consumer Experience
New York: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) (2017), 51 slides
"18 countries participated in the research, 200 representative smartphone owners from each country [...] The majority (63%) of smartphone owners worldwide use their mobile device at least every 30 minutes. This usage includes any and all different ways a mobile device can be used, from making calls,
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Social Media in South India
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xi, 240 pp.
"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa
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Communication in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of Media and Mobile Audiences
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.
"The survey indicates that radio remains the most widely accessed broadcast platform in Sierra Leone. In all, eight out of 10 (81%) Sierra Leoneans have access to radio, and 47% listen to it daily. Radio listenership is fractured, however, with no single station able to reach a national audience. Ar
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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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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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Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Global Nannies in Paris
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 525-539
"Feminization of migration has emerged as a common livelihood strategy to alleviate poverty and escape difficult socioeconomic, cultural, and familial situations. Mobile phones have become the most crucial and pervasive communication device that enables migrants to be simultaneously mobile and conne
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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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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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Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.
"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos
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Benchmarking Demand: Pakistan and the Internet Users’ Perspective
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2016), 27 pp.
"The percentage of Pakistanis using the Internet increased by 37.5% between 2009 and 2013, though overall internet penetration remains very low with only 11% of the population having access to the Internet". (Page 9) "Heavy internet users in Pakistan are very young (72% under 30 years of age), large
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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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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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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares
Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.
