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Jóvenes chilenos y redes sociales virtuales: ¿oportunidades para la participación y la creación?
In: Cultura digital en América Latina: Investigación interuniversitaria Educación y Evangelización
Bogotá: Centro de Comunicación Educativa Audiovisual (CEDAL); Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); RIIAL (2012), pp. 46-75
The Social Media Reader
New York; London: New York University Press (2012), x, 289 pp.
"The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different s
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Consumos culturales digitales: Jóvenes de 13 a 18 años
Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación; Educ.ar (2012), 100 pp.
"La socialización de los niños y jóvenes a través de los medios compite fuertemente con la escuela desde hace tiempo, pero se agudiza con la incesante multiplicación tecnológica y su penetración en todos los intersticios de la vida cotidiana. La teoría de los consumos culturales brinda una m
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Digital Anthropology
London: Berg (2012), x, 316 pp.
"This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human
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Digital News Report 2012: Tracking the Future of News
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2012), 64 pp.
"Based on a representative survey of online news consumers across five countries – UK, US, Germany, France and Denmark – the report is the start of an ambitious project to track changing digital news behaviour over the next decade. Key international findings: There are significant differences in
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Vida digital: La tecnología en el centro de lo cotidiano
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012), 159 pp.
"Este es un ensayo tentativo, exploratorio, que quiere proponer de manera asequible algunas rutas de exploración de las consecuencias que la presencia de la Internet, las distintas tecnologías de información y comunicación y en general las nuevas formas de comunicación, plantean a las personas
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The Mobile Media Reader
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), vi, 198 pp.
Social Media in the Arab World: Influencing Societal and Cultural Change?
Arab Social Media Report (Dubai School of Government), volume 2, issue 1 (2012), 29 pp.
"In this fourth issue of the report, we focus on exploring the societal and cultural transformations taking place in the Arab region, influenced by the continuing exponential growth of social media. In this edition of the report we provide regional statistics on more social networking platforms, in
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The Rise of E-Reading
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
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New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp.
"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world."
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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
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Young People, Computers and the Internet in Niger
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 277-292
"This article explores how computers and the Internet are represented among young, educated people in Niger and the social expectations that are attached to their use. It argues that pre-existing social and economic conditions play an important role in shaping the meanings associated with these devi
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Risks and Safety on the Internet: The Perspective of European Children. Full Findings and Policy Implications from the EU Kids Online Survey of 9-16 Year Olds and Their Parents in 25 Countries
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), EU Kids Online (2011), 170 pp.
"This report presents the full findings from a new and unique survey designed and conducted according to rigorous standards by the EU Kids Online network. It was funded by the European Commissions¡¦ Safer Internet Programme in order to strengthen the evidence base for policies regarding online saf
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"Todos tienen celular": Uso, apropiación e impacto de la telefonía móvil en el área de influencia de dos ferias en Puno, Perú
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (2011), 89 pp.
"Podemos concluir que en nuestra área de estudio, diversos factores dificultan el uso intensivo del teléfono móvil. Entre ellos se encuentran la poca asequibilidad del servicio, las escasas habilidades para manejar el aparato, y la poca confianza que se tiene en los proveedores o compradores. Ade
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account
New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma
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Revisiting the ‘leapfrog’ Debate in Light of Current Trends of Mobile Phone Internet Usage in the Greater Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 263-276
"At first glance, mobile technology appears to have the potential to allow countries in Africa to technologically ‘leapfrog’ across the digital divide and provide much needed Internet access to a wide range of people currently unable to participate in the Information Society. This study investig
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The Handbook of Internet Studies
Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xiii, 498 pp.
La generación interactiva en Iberoamérica 2010: Niños y adolescentes ante las pantallas
Madrid: Foro Generaciones Interactivas; Fundación Telefónica (2011), 635 pp.
"En 2010 el Foro desplegó una nueva investigación en la que han participado ocho países: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, México y Perú. El esfuerzo realizado por los equipos locales del Foro, con el apoyo inestimable de Fundación Telefónica y de Telefónica, ha permiti
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Nutzung und Funktionen von Social Communitys
Media Perspektiven, issue 2 (2011), pp. 115-120
"Nach Angaben der Nielsen Company wurde Facebook 2010 von etwa 400 Millionen Menschen weltweit genutzt, für das laufende Jahr soll deren Zahl auf etwa 630 Millionen steigen. Laut der JIM-Studie 2010 sind Social Communitys die bevorzugten Seiten, wenn Zwölf- bis 19-Jährige das Internet nutzen. 70
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Use of Social Media in the United Arab Emirates: An Initial Study
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-27
"The most popular types of social media in the UAE are generally the same as those used in other regions across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. These include social networks (Facebook), video-sharing sites (YouTube), and micro-blogging sites (Twitter), among others. UAE respondents were b
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