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Uso del internet en el Perú
Lima: GfK Perú (2015), 30 pp.
"El número de usuarios de Internet en el Perú llega al 42%. Esta cifra se incrementa cuando se considera únicamente el ámbito urbano (50%) y se reduce considerablemente en el entorno rural, donde la conectividad llega a sólo 18%." (Página 6)
Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 29 slides
"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by
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Social Web: Ausdifferenzierung der Nutzung – Potenziale für Medienanbieter. Ergebnisse der ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie 2015
Media Perspektiven, issue 10 (2015), pp. 442-452
"Die Nutzung von sozialen Medien ist 2015 ein weiteres Jahr in Folge nicht angestiegen. Die wahrscheinlichste Ursache hierfür ist, dass private Kommunikation verstärkt ins Instant Messaging – namentlich WhatsApp – abwandert. In der jungen Zielgruppe steigen vor allem die Nutzerzahlen der Fotoc
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Smartphones
Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39
"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their
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The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2015), xxix, 386 pp.
"This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations
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Online-Kommunikation im Social Web: Mythen, Theorien und Praxisbeispiele
Opladen; Toronto: Budrich (2015), 307 pp.
"Der Band liefert theoretisch fundiertes Grundlagenwissen für eine erfolgreiche Online-Kommunikationsarbeit, entlarvt Mythen und bietet Einblicke ins Internetrecht und in IT-Sicherheit. Ein speziell entwickeltes Modell zur Entwicklung einer Online-Kommunikationsstrategie hilft darüber hinaus (zuk
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Smartphones, Sex und Social Media: Erwachsenwerden im Digitalzeitalter. Wie Jugendliche in Deutschland mit Smartphone, Apps und Social-Media-Plattformen umgehen
Televizion, volume 28, issue 1 (2015), pp. 12-19
"Der Artikel beschreibt, wie Jugendliche in Deutschland mit Smartphone, Apps und Social-Media-Plattformen umgehen und inwiefern dies Chancen und Risiken bei der Bewältigung ihrer Entwicklungsaufgaben mit sich bringt." (Seite 12)
Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2015), 319 pp.
"This book considers how Moroccan-Dutch youth, mostly born in the Netherlands, navigate digital spaces to articulate their politicized identities in a time when claims over the failure of multiculturalism, anti-immigration sentiments and Islamophobia sweep across Europe. Digital Passages: Migrant Yo
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Social Media and Their Use by Albanian Media
Tirana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Albanian Media Institute (2015), 52 pp.
"This study takes it upon itself to present a general overview of the development of online media and social media in Albania, focusing particularly on how professional media outlets use social media. The empirical research focused on monitoring the most widely used social media in Albania, such as
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Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389
"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c
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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat
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Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82
"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res
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Maintaining Social Connectedness in a Fast-Changing World: Examining the Effects of Mobile Phone Uses on Loneliness Among Teens in Tibet
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 3 (2014), pp. 318-334
"This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skill
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Digital in the Americas 2014
We Are Social (2014), 229 pp.
2014 Asia Pacific Digital Overview
We Are Social (2014), 213 pp.
Wissenskluft und Digital Divide
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 121 pp.
"Der Band gibt eine fundierte, knappe und anschauliche Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen, methodischen Zugänge, empirischen Befunde und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge der Wissenskluftforschung. Diese geht von wachsenden Wissensdifferenzen zwischen statushöheren und -niedrigeren Gruppi
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