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Snap Judgements: How Audiences Who Lack Trust in News Navigate Information on Digital Platforms
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 43 pp.
"In this report, we qualitatively examine how audiences who lack trust in most news organisations in their countries navigate the digital information environment, especially how they make sense of the news they encounter while using social media, messaging applications, or search engines. Drawing on
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies,
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Digital Access and Barriers in Displacement-Affected Communities in White Nile, Sudan: Results of a Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment (CoNUA) by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the GSMA and REACH Initiative
London: GSMA (2022), 38 pp.
"This report shares findings on the access and use of mobile technology among South Sudanese refugees and the communities that host them in three areas of White Nile, Sudan. White Nile is a state in southern Sudan sharing a border and refugee crossing points with South Sudan. It is home to nearly 70
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Mediennutzung in der Corona-Pandemie
Media Perspektiven, issue 2 (2022), pp. 81-88
"Während der Corona-Pandemie und der damit verbundenen Einschränkungen des öffentlichen Lebens hat sich der Medienkonsum in allen Bereichen signifikant erhöht. Um auf dem Laufenden und mit anderen in Kontakt zu bleiben, aber auch um sich zu unterhalten und abzulenken, nutzten (und nutzen) die Me
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Iranians on #SocialMedia
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2022), 40 pp.
"This report explores the social media habits of Iranian netizens and how the Islamic Republic is repressing the online space." (Publisher description)
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 273 pp.
"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, en
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Addressing Hate Speech: Educational Responses
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 14 pp.
"This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities of addressing both online and offline hate speech through education and recommend comprehensive approaches for effective educational strategies. Incorporating context-based teaching and learning practices that promote responsible global citiz
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Digital 2022: Global Overview Report
We Are Social; Hootsuite (2022), 300 slides
"Double-digit annual growth has taken the global social media user figure to 4.62 billion, and current trends indicate that it will equal 60 percent of the world’s total population within the next few months. COVID-19 continues to hamper research into internet adoption though, resulting in reporti
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Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarisation: A Literature Review
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 42 pp.
"This literature review examines, specifically, social science work presenting evidence concerning the existence, causes, and effect of online echo chambers and consider what related research can tell about scientific discussions online and how they might shape public understanding of science and th
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Why Aren’t Women Part of the Conversation? A Study of the Gender Gap in Social Media Use in India, its Causes and the Implications for Women’s Empowerment
Deep Insights
BBC Media Action (2022), 12 pp.
"This report summarises learnings from BBC Media Action’s landscaping study of the gendered dimensions of social media access and use in India. It addresses 10 questions that have implications for designing digital solutions for women’s empowerment in India." (Page 2)
Identidad en la era digital: Construcción de perfiles en redes sociales en adolescentes chilenos/as
Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, volume 29, issue e17430 (2022), 25 pp.
"Este artículo tiene como objetivo caracterizar las lógicas que moldean la construcción de perfiles e identidades digitales utilizadas por los y las adolescentes como parte de sus interacciones en redes sociales en Chile. Al usar una aproximación cuantitativa que incluyó la adaptación y valida
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.
"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr
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Social Media Literacy: Fake News Consumption and Perception of COVID-19 in Nigeria
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2138011 (2022), 14 pp.
"The emergence of social media in the late 90s resulted in information dissemination and consumption transformation. Social networking sites have increasingly been popular and appealing to youths, who often spend much time navigating across the platforms, exploiting the communication affordances. Wh
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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COVID-19, Digital Substitutional and Intersectional Inequality: The Case of South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 54 pp.
"This study analyses the impacts of COVID-19 and its associated public policy responses on digital and intersectional inequality in South Africa from a demand-side perspective. The overarching research question it seeks to address is: To what extent were people in South Africa able to mitigate the n
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Digital Detox Box: Wie wir Abhängigkeiten erkennen und digitales Wohlbefinden stärken können. Methodensammlung für die Schule und außerschulische Jugendarbeit
Ludwigshafen: klicksafe; Medienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (2022), 40 pp.
"Die Box ist eine Sammlung von 16 ausgewählten Methoden aus der medienpädagogischen Praxis der Projekte klicksafe und Handysektor. Hier lernen Jugendliche das eigene Nutzungsverhalten auszuwerten, digitale Geräte bewusster einzusetzen und über digitales Wohlbefinden nachzudenken. Die Strategien
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Qualitative Research Using Social Media
London; New York: Routledge (2022), viii, 203 pp.
"[This book] guides the reader in what different kinds of qualitative research can be applied to social media data. It introduces students, as well as those who are new to the field, to developing and carrying out concrete research projects. The book takes the reader through the stages of choosing d
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