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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa
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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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Information Manipulation in Sudan: A Baseline Assessment of Actors, Narratives and Tactics
Thomson Foundation (2026), 81 pp.
"The destruction of Sudan’s established information infrastructure at the outset of the conflict in April 2023 has created an environment where systematic information manipulation and disinformation campaigns now flourish unchecked. This has intersected with increasing systematic information manip
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Journalists, Social Media and News Consumption
Ukrainian Analytical Digest, issue 16 (2025), 32 pp.
"This issue focuses on journalism and social media in Ukraine. The first two articles examine the safety of journalists in Ukraine during the war based on the Worlds of Journalism Study and assess how the security situation during the war influences the practice of ‘patriotic journalism.’ The fo
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Mitigating loneliness and remediating solitude: Pandemic narratives from the Global South
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 19 pp.
"Set in the Global South context of India, this article examines how users of digital media used their platforms and devices to mitigate loneliness and create moments of solitude during the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, experiencing loneliness has been understood as debilitating but solitude has
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The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxvii, 765 pp.
"Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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Understanding News Avoidance in Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 375-398
"In the age of digital media, news avoidance behaviour is continually increasing. This behaviour has brought new challenges for society and democracy. Research on news avoidance has recently experienced a surge, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are many uncertainties
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Media and Communication Systems for Sustainability in Nigeria
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxix, 541 pp.
"The aim of this book is to advance a research agenda on the potential role of media in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. It provides a theoretical and empirical framework for explicating the potential place of media structures and institutions in tackling issues affecting s
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Venezuela digital 2025: Estadísticas imprescindibles
Guayoyo Marketing; We Are Social, marzo 17 (2025)
"Un total de 22,5 millones de conexiones móviles celulares estaban activas en Venezuela a principios de 2025, siendo esta cifra equivalente al 79,1 por ciento de la población total. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que algunas de estas conexiones sólo incluyen servicios como voz y SMS, y otra
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Sudanese Media Ecosystem
Internews (2025), 44 pp.
"Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted between May and August 2025, including interviews with journalists, media organisations, policymakers, and civil society activists, the report highlights how Sudan’s media environment has transformed into a “parallel battlefield” where
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Medienkompetenz für die digitale Welt: Ein praktischer Wegweiser
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Bielefeld University Press (2025), 260 pp.
"In einer Zeit, in der neue Technologien und Künstliche Intelligenz allgegenwärtig sind, erweist sich der souveräne Umgang mit digitalen Medien als unerlässliche Schlüsselkompetenz. Der Einstiegskurs bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in vielfältige Dimensionen digitaler Medienkompetenz und bef
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Digital and Social Media in Africa
London: University of Westminster Press (2025), xi, 194 pp.
"This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression. Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by
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Wanderer between the worlds: Telegram use from the users’ perspective
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 133-155
"The messenger Telegram has gained importance for the mediated constitution of counterpublics in German-speaking countries since 2020. However, most research on Telegram focuses on the content shared and the networks that have developed on the platform. Meanwhile, knowledge about the users of counte
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Resonanz und Entfremdung auf Facebook: Möglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen digitaler Weltbeziehungen
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 309 pp.
"In einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt prägen soziale Medien wie Facebook unseren Alltag - aber ermöglichen sie auch echte Resonanzerfahrungen? Basierend auf der Resonanztheorie von Hartmut Rosa untersucht Lisa Waldenburger, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Nutzer*innen in den sozialen Medien Re
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Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa
Journal of Comparative Economics, volume 52, issue 2 (2024), pp. 400-433
"The use of the Internet to access news has an impact on African citizens’ perceptions of democracy. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the Afrobarometer survey across 35 African countries over the period 2011–2018, along with an instrumental variable approach, allows addressing potential
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GeoPoll Media Viewership Survey: Afghanistan
GeoPoll (2024), 24 slides
"Media Audience Universe Estimates: 67% of the adult Afghan population watches TV at least once a month, 38% listen to the radio." (Slide 9)
"Internet Access and Use: 60% of Afghans on average access the internet on an average day, 28% Watch TV or videos online/on mobile on an average day, 61% Use
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Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 164 pp.
"Valid and reliable measurement of media and communication exposure is crucial for communication science, psychology, political science, sociology, pedagogy, economics, and law, and the practitioners in media, communication, and information. At the same time, this is a wicked problem for which there
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