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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more

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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia

Weiyu Zhang, Emmanuel C. Lallana (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 3 (2013), pp. 249-337

"The articles collected in this special issue share a common focus: young adults’ use of new media for civic engagement in South and Southeast Asia. Youth engagement problems are evident when established democracies witness a decline in youth participation in traditional civic activities (e.g., vo ... ting) compared to the participation levels of older generations. MacKinnon et al. (2007) stated, ‘[y]outh are turned off by the game of partisan politics and increasingly refuse to learn or apply the rules. In large measure, they are reinventing civic and political engagement.’ We began our project with the observation that the youth in South and Southeast Asia demonstrate distinctive patterns of civic and political engagement, and we sought information about whether these patterns are a consequence of a generational shift or a result of contextual changes, such as those in political systems and media technologies. We examined two propositions that are often associated with youth engagement and new media. First, new media change the relationship between youth and existing political systems. Second, new media change the nature of civic engagement itself, especially for the youth. As we inquired further, we found that using established democracies as our reference point might have been incorrect. The difference between the so-called young or semi-democracies and established or mature democracies is not that the former is an inadequate version of the latter. Instead, the political systems found in South and Southeast Asia have their own characteristics, and these systems cannot be simply classified as a lack of democratic components. The same thing can be said about new media. The difference between the region in question and other regions, such as North America and Europe, is not that the former lacks access to technologies that are common in the latter. Instead, the type and use of technologies in the region show unique patterns that cannot be simply defined as less advanced. When we refer to the region, we make no attempt to generate a singular discourse for all the countries involved. Instead, we are highly sensitive to the diversity presented in the individual cases that belong to the region in this study. The end product, therefore, becomes a juxtaposition of multiple reference points that can be not only compared to established democracies but also compared to the other countries in Asia." (Page 249) more

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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.

"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept ... more

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Fights, Adapts, Accepts: Archetypes of Iranian Internet Use

Arash Abadpour, Collin Anderson

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 24 pp.

"The Internet is one of the few remaining platforms where Iranians can practice some level of open debate, less susceptible to social and political limitations. Research on Internet use in Iran sheds light on a large online community engaged in a diversity of activities and expanding at a significan ... more

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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook

Jacob Sommer, Triin Rum

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), 15 pp.

"This study demonstrates that critical discourse analysis can be used to quickly discern the identity of a political actor and make accurate predictions about that actor’s intentions and goals, even in the context of a revolution. This study’s authors used critical discourse analysis to empirica ... more

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Innovative Approaches for Investigating How Children Understand Risk in New Media: Dealing with Methodological and Ethical Challenges

Monica Barbovschi, Lelia Green, Sofie Vandoninck

London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), EU Kids Online (2013), 119 pp.

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The Arab World Online: Trends in Internet Usage in the Arab Region

Fadi Salem, Sara Alshaer

Dubai: Dubai School of Government (DSG), Governance and Innovation Program;bayt.com (2013), 23 pp.

"With more than 125 million individuals using the Internet in the Arab region, and more than 53 million actively using social networking technologies, the DSG Governance and Innovation Program in partnership with Bayt.com conducted a regional survey to examine internet usage trends in the Arab regio ... more

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The Global Social Network Landscape: A Country-By-Country Guide to Social Network Usage

Mitchel Winkels

eMarketer (2013), 40 pp.

"Though Facebook’s near-ubiquitous lead might indicate that the global social network landscape is simplifying, it quickly becomes clear this is not the case. This report aims to help marketers assess the social network landscape in 27 countries by briefly examining four key factors: top social ne ... more

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TIC Kids Online Brasil 2012: Pesquisa sobre o uso da Internet por crianças e adolescentes = ICT Kids Online Brazil 2012: Survey on Internet Use by Children in Brazil

Alexandre F. Barbosa (coord.)

São Paulo: Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (2013), 335 pp.

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A (private) Public Space: Examining the Use and Impact of Digital and Social Media Among Adolescents in Kenya

Susan Gigli, Vivien Marles

UNICEF;Intermedia;Voices of Youth Citizens (2013), 88 pp.

"The study focused on exploring how 152 children, 12 to 17 years old, in Kenya, use social media and other digital technologies, and what impact these technologies have on this group, particularly from the perspective of child rights. The study involved holding digital youth clinics in four location ... more

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Internet und soziale Netzwerke in Russland

Russland-Analysen, issue 264 (2013), pp. 2-17

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Digital News Report 2013: Tracking the Future of News

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 108 pp.

This is the second of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News surveys published by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at Oxford University. You Gov online polls commissioned by RISJ were conducted with 11,000 online users in the UK, US, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Bra ... more

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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.

"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more

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Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific

Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.

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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia

David Nemer

Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.

"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment” ... more

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Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

New York: Routledge (2012), xvi, 255 pp.

"The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video docu ... more

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Diverse Digital Worlds

Bart Barendregt

In: Digital Anthropology

Heather A. Horst; Daniel Miller (eds.)

London: Berg (2012), pp. 203-224

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Communitys bei Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen: Private Kommunikation und öffentliche Interaktion. Einen Analyse am Beispiel ausgewählter Medienangebote

Walter Klingler, Andreas Vlašic, Frank Widmayer

Media Perspektiven, issue 9 (2012), pp. 433-444

"Die Nutzung von Communitys hat längst Einzug in den Alltag Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener gefunden. 85 Prozent der Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen nutzen zumindest gelegentlich die Angebote von Social Networks, 51 Prozent tun dies täglich. Dies belegen die Ergebnisse der JIM-Studie (Jugend, Informa ... tion, Multimedia) sowie einer ergänzenden SWR-Studie zum Medienverhalten 20- bis 29-Jähriger. Die Plattform Facebook kann dabei einen Großteil der Communityaktivitäten und damit auch der Kommunikation an sich binden. Rund zwei Drittel der Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen nutzen Facebook, für 60 Prozent ist es die meistgenutzte Plattform. Als Hauptmotiv für die Mitgliedschaft in einer Community wird deren Funktionalität für die Organisation des Privatlebens genannt. Die Größe und Etabliertheit des Portals, vor allem das Kriterium „wo finde ich meine Freunde?“, entscheiden dann darüber, welche Community hauptsächlich genutzt wird. Die Präsenz von Unternehmen, Stars oder Institutionen auf Facebook führt zu einer Vermischung privater und öffentlicher Bereiche, die den Wirkbereich der Communitys über den privaten Raum hinaus hin zum Social-Media-Marketing ausdehnt. Weitere Untersuchungen zeigen, dass eine Mehrzahl der Medienmarken Facebook bereits als Kommunikations- oder Distributionsplattform nutzt. Der Grad der Dialogorientierung und Interaktivität – gemessen anhand von Kriterien wie persönlicher Ansprache, benutzter Sprachform oder den Inhalten der Postings – unterscheidet sich zwischen verschiedenen Mediengattungen deutlich. Während Tageszeitungen bisher nur wenige dialogorientierte Elemente in ihren Communityauftritten nutzen, gelingt es Hörfunksendern derzeit am besten, eine Interaktion mit dem Nutzer aufzubauen. Eine Analyse von 75 Facebook-Accounts bestätigt den Radioanbietern einen intensiven, gegenseitigen Austausch mit den Hörern, der sich in deutlichen Zuwachsraten bei der Zahl der Fans manifestiert. Auch hier unterscheiden sich die Strategien im Hinblick auf den Einsatz unterschiedlicher kommunikativer Elemente, die Inhalte der Posts oder eine programm- bzw. nutzergetriebene Ausrichtung des Auftritts zwischen den verschiedenen Programmen. Derzeit haben junge Hörfunkprogramme den höchsten Grad an Interaktivität und einen überdurchschnittlichen Traffic auf ihren Facebook-Accounts." (Abstract) more

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Cultura digital en América Latina: Investigación interuniversitaria Educación y Evangelización

Bogotá: Centro de Comunicación Educativa Audiovisual (CEDAL);Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM);RIIAL (2012), 356 pp.

"This sampler is the result of a common research project of 16 Latin American universities and the Informatics Network of the Catholic Church in Latin America (RIIAL) on "the impact of digital culture in the Latin American societies". The first part consists of seven contributions studying the use o ... more

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The Rise of E-Reading

Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden, Joanna Brenner

Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, Internet & American Life Project (2012), 68 pp.

"The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story about a shift from printed to digital material. Using a broader definition of e-content in a survey ending in December 2011, some 43% of Americans age 16 and older say they have either read an e-book in the past year or have read oth ... more