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Baseline Study Report on Women Access to Information Through Mobile and Media Communication Services
"Out of a total 400 participants, 374 respondents, representing 93.5%, know how to use cell phones, while 26, representing 6.5%, have no knowledge whatsoever about cell phone usage. This finding is indicative of a relatively high knowledge of mobile phones utility. The result also indicates that Lon
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The Arab World Online 2014: Trends in Internet Usage in the Arab Region
Dubai: Dubai School of Government (DSG), Governance and Innovation Program; bayt.com (2014), 21 pp.
"Our research indicates that today, there are more than 135 million individuals using the Internet in the 22 Arab countries. This is coupled with a mobile penetration rate of around 110 percent on a regional level; and more than 71 million active users of social networking technologies." (Page 1)
Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in Urban India
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 7 (2014), pp. 1122-1137
"This article presents an ethnographic study of the adoption and use of Facebook among urban Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Mobile-centric use of the Internet is widely prevalent here as general packet radio service (GPRS)-enabled mobile phones and data plans have bec
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Texting, Tweeting, and Talking: Effects of Smartphone Use on Engagement in Civic Discourse in China
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-19
"Media use and talking with others have been found to have positive effects on citizens' civic participation according to Wyatt, Katz, and Kim (2000). Recent research links informational uses of the mobile phone to increased involvement in civic and political life. Building on this line of research,
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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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Digital News Report 2014
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.
"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their
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The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2014), 10 pp.
"In recent years, cyberculture has informally reported a phenomenon named the 1% rule, or 90-9-1 principle, which seeks to explain participatory patterns and network effects within Internet communities. The rule states that 90% of actors observe and do not participate, 9% contribute sparingly, and 1
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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.
"Integrating insights from cultural anthropology, folklore, digital humanities, and digital heritage studies, this work brims with case studies that provide in-depth discussions of applied projects. Web links to multimedia examples are included as well, including projects, design documents, and othe
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
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
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Internet und soziale Netzwerke in Russland
Russland-Analysen, issue 264 (2013), pp. 2-17
Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific
London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.
Digital News Report 2013: Tracking the Future of News
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
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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia
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
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Fights, Adapts, Accepts: Archetypes of Iranian Internet Use
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
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Youth Culture and Mobiles
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-88
"The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and
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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey
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
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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook
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
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The Arab World Online: Trends in Internet Usage in the Arab Region
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
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