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Children's digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 175 pp.
"This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children's social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, ci
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2024
London: GSMA (2024), 91 pp.
Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age
Wiesbaden: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 166 pp.
"Contrary to the prevailing narratives of "digital empowerment" and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially di
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Contesting personalized recommender systems: A cross-country analysis of user preferences
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube wield substantial influence over digital information flows using sophisticated algorithmic recommender systems (RS). As these systems curate personalized content, concerns have emerged about their propensity to amplify polar
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"Jonathan Haidt ['The Anxious Generation,' 2024] has four bottom-line suggestions: 1) No smartphones before high school; 2) no social media before age 16; 3) phone-free schools; and 4) more free play in the real world. Amidst uncertainty as to the magnitude of social media impacts, implementing thes
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Self-Deprecating Cyberculture on TikTok: Experiences of Young Indonesians
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2201-2223
"The TikTok self-deprecating (SD) cyberculture is built on the exchange of SD memes among users who deprecate aspects of themselves on a daily basis. Predominantly composed of young people, SD memes on Indonesian TikTok reflect discourses on the daily struggles faced by young Indonesians. To explore
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Nutzung digitaler Medien im Kindes- und Jugendalter
DAK-Gesundheit (2024), 42 slides
Decoding Social Media’s Role in Taliban 2.0 and its Implications for Afghan Youth
Honolulu: East-West Center (2024), 8 pp.
"The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021 after two decades of fighting on the ground and manipulating narratives online, particularly on social media. Their tactical use of social media was more evident in 2021 when they were advancing their territorial gains and posting on social
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Azerbaijan digital skills assessment 2023-2024
Geneva: ITU (2024), ix, 83 pp.
"The survey findings reveal that 25 per cent of those aged between 15 and 74 have at least basic digital skills, with 7.8 per cent having above basic digital skills and 17.3 per cent having basic digital skills. The study also found that over a quarter (26.5%) of respondents below the basic level of
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Collective victimhood narratives in far-right communities on Telegram
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1407-1424
"Feelings of collective victimhood have been demonstrated to have a strong effect on ingroup bias, outgroup hostility and support for violence. The use of narratives stirring these feelings in far-right communications is especially concerning given their inclusion in the manifestos of several mass k
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Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries
Political Communication, volume 41, issue 1 (2024), pp. 129-151
"Most scholars focus on the prevalence and democratic effects of (partisan) news exposure. This focus misses large parts of online activities of a majority of politically disinterested citizens. Although political content also appears outside of news outlets and may profoundly shape public opinion,
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2023
Deep Insights
"1. More women in low- and middle-income countries are using mobile internet than ever before, but their rate of adoption has slowed for the second year in a row. While 61% of women across these countries now use mobile internet, only 60 million women started using mobile internet in 2022 compared t
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After Access 2022: Internet Usage Trends in Uganda
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 9 pp.