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Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in Urban India

Neha Kumar

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 ... more

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Digital Youth Cultures in Small Town and Rural Gujarat, India

Manisha Pathak-Shelat, Cathy DeShano

New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 6 (2014), pp. 983-1001

"Youth in this study treat new media and technologies as one limited component of otherwise rich lives and social experiences. While new technologies promote individualistic mobility, Indian youth of small towns and rural places still live in collective social structures that shape their orientation ... more

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Youth, Facebook and Politics in South Africa

Tanja Bosch

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 119-130

"This article explores how Facebook is used by South African youth, with particular reference to their political participation and involvement. Research has shown the declining involvement of young people in political processes, particularly since democratic elections in 1994. This is an internation ... more

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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more

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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia

Weiyu Zhang, Emmanuel C. Lallana (eds.)

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 ... ting) compared to the participation levels of older generations. MacKinnon et al. (2007) stated, ‘[y]outh are turned off by the game of partisan politics and increasingly refuse to learn or apply the rules. In large measure, they are reinventing civic and political engagement.’ We began our project with the observation that the youth in South and Southeast Asia demonstrate distinctive patterns of civic and political engagement, and we sought information about whether these patterns are a consequence of a generational shift or a result of contextual changes, such as those in political systems and media technologies. We examined two propositions that are often associated with youth engagement and new media. First, new media change the relationship between youth and existing political systems. Second, new media change the nature of civic engagement itself, especially for the youth. As we inquired further, we found that using established democracies as our reference point might have been incorrect. The difference between the so-called young or semi-democracies and established or mature democracies is not that the former is an inadequate version of the latter. Instead, the political systems found in South and Southeast Asia have their own characteristics, and these systems cannot be simply classified as a lack of democratic components. The same thing can be said about new media. The difference between the region in question and other regions, such as North America and Europe, is not that the former lacks access to technologies that are common in the latter. Instead, the type and use of technologies in the region show unique patterns that cannot be simply defined as less advanced. When we refer to the region, we make no attempt to generate a singular discourse for all the countries involved. Instead, we are highly sensitive to the diversity presented in the individual cases that belong to the region in this study. The end product, therefore, becomes a juxtaposition of multiple reference points that can be not only compared to established democracies but also compared to the other countries in Asia." (Page 249) more

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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook

Jacob Sommer, Triin Rum

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 ... more

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TIC Kids Online Brasil 2012: Pesquisa sobre o uso da Internet por crianças e adolescentes = ICT Kids Online Brazil 2012: Survey on Internet Use by Children in Brazil

Alexandre F. Barbosa (coord.)

São Paulo: Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (2013), 335 pp.

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A (private) Public Space: Examining the Use and Impact of Digital and Social Media Among Adolescents in Kenya

Susan Gigli, Vivien Marles

UNICEF;Intermedia;Voices of Youth Citizens (2013), 88 pp.

"The study focused on exploring how 152 children, 12 to 17 years old, in Kenya, use social media and other digital technologies, and what impact these technologies have on this group, particularly from the perspective of child rights. The study involved holding digital youth clinics in four location ... more

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Understanding African Children's Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs): A Youth-Led Survey to Prevent Sexual Exploitation Online

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2013), 76 pp.

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Nationalism and Preferences for Domestic and Foreign Animation Programmes in China

Kenichi Ishii

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 2 (2013), pp. 225-245

"Since China implemented animation control policies in 2004, foreign animation programmes have almost disappeared from Chinese television. At the same time, the Chinese government has invested enormous amounts of money in developing the animation industry as a creative industry. A questionnaire surv ... more

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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

Bronwyn T. Williams, Amy A. Zenger

New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.

"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ ... more

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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 ... more

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Communitys bei Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen: Private Kommunikation und öffentliche Interaktion. Einen Analyse am Beispiel ausgewählter Medienangebote

Walter Klingler, Andreas Vlašic, Frank Widmayer

Media Perspektiven, issue 9 (2012), pp. 433-444

"Die Nutzung von Communitys hat längst Einzug in den Alltag Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener gefunden. 85 Prozent der Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen nutzen zumindest gelegentlich die Angebote von Social Networks, 51 Prozent tun dies täglich. Dies belegen die Ergebnisse der JIM-Studie (Jugend, Informa ... tion, Multimedia) sowie einer ergänzenden SWR-Studie zum Medienverhalten 20- bis 29-Jähriger. Die Plattform Facebook kann dabei einen Großteil der Communityaktivitäten und damit auch der Kommunikation an sich binden. Rund zwei Drittel der Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen nutzen Facebook, für 60 Prozent ist es die meistgenutzte Plattform. Als Hauptmotiv für die Mitgliedschaft in einer Community wird deren Funktionalität für die Organisation des Privatlebens genannt. Die Größe und Etabliertheit des Portals, vor allem das Kriterium „wo finde ich meine Freunde?“, entscheiden dann darüber, welche Community hauptsächlich genutzt wird. Die Präsenz von Unternehmen, Stars oder Institutionen auf Facebook führt zu einer Vermischung privater und öffentlicher Bereiche, die den Wirkbereich der Communitys über den privaten Raum hinaus hin zum Social-Media-Marketing ausdehnt. Weitere Untersuchungen zeigen, dass eine Mehrzahl der Medienmarken Facebook bereits als Kommunikations- oder Distributionsplattform nutzt. Der Grad der Dialogorientierung und Interaktivität – gemessen anhand von Kriterien wie persönlicher Ansprache, benutzter Sprachform oder den Inhalten der Postings – unterscheidet sich zwischen verschiedenen Mediengattungen deutlich. Während Tageszeitungen bisher nur wenige dialogorientierte Elemente in ihren Communityauftritten nutzen, gelingt es Hörfunksendern derzeit am besten, eine Interaktion mit dem Nutzer aufzubauen. Eine Analyse von 75 Facebook-Accounts bestätigt den Radioanbietern einen intensiven, gegenseitigen Austausch mit den Hörern, der sich in deutlichen Zuwachsraten bei der Zahl der Fans manifestiert. Auch hier unterscheiden sich die Strategien im Hinblick auf den Einsatz unterschiedlicher kommunikativer Elemente, die Inhalte der Posts oder eine programm- bzw. nutzergetriebene Ausrichtung des Auftritts zwischen den verschiedenen Programmen. Derzeit haben junge Hörfunkprogramme den höchsten Grad an Interaktivität und einen überdurchschnittlichen Traffic auf ihren Facebook-Accounts." (Abstract) more

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Consumos culturales digitales: Jóvenes de 13 a 18 años

Mónica E. Pini et al.

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 ... more

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Understanding the Use of ICTs by Children and Young People in Relation to Their Risks and Vulnerabilities Online Specific to Sexual Exploitation: A Youth-Led Study in Latin America

Sergio García de Diego

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2012), 50 pp.

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Jóvenes chilenos y redes sociales virtuales: ¿oportunidades para la participación y la creación?

Myrna Gálvez Johnson, Cristian Calderón

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

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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

Jenna Burrell

Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2012), xi, 235 pp.

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Geração net: Relacionamento, espiritualidad, vida profissional

Gildasio Mendes

São Paulo: Paulinas (2012), 72 pp.

"Este livro se propõe lançar luzes sobre o nosso entendimento quanto ao universo da denominada Geração Net, que nasceu no contexto da cultura midiática e foge dos parâmetros que imprimimos às nossas análises. Tem ainda como objetivo tentar estabelecer, entre os membros das diferentes geraç� ... more

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La generación interactiva en Iberoamérica 2010: Niños y adolescentes ante las pantallas

Xavier Bringué, Charo Sádaba, Jorge Tolsá

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 ... more

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Facebook in der Wissenschaft: Forschung zu sozialen Netzwerken

Elke Weissensteiner, Dominik Leiner

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 59, issue 4 (2011), pp. 526-544

"In den vergangenen Jahren verlagerten soziale Onlinenetzwerke, allen voran die Pioniere Myspace und Facebook, die Kommunikation und soziale Interaktion Jugendlicher ins Web 2.0 und veränderten so das Gesicht des Internets. Dieser Artikel skizziert eine Landkarte der vielschichtigen Forschung zum G ... more