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Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia
Dordrecht: Springer (2025), viii, 235 pp.
"This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context. By studying the impact of mobile media on children and youth in Asia, it focuses on the explosive growth of mobile media among young people and seeks to understand the potential consequences of mobile media use o
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Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 218 pp.
"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discou
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How Radio Can Build a More Supportive Environment for Girls’ Education, Learning, and Empowerment
London: BBC Media Action (2023), 15 pp.
Girls’ Digital Literacy in the East Asia and Pacific Region: Spotlight on Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam
Bangkog: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2023), 76 pp.
Resultados del “estudio exploratorio sobre brechas digitales de género en población adolescente en Perú”: Resumen ejecutivo
UNICEF (2022), 22 pp.
"En el Perú existen alrededor de nueve millones de adolescentes entre 12 y 17 años. De este grupo, se estima que el 92.9 % hace uso de internet para socializar, informarse, desarrollar pasatiempos y asistir a clases durante la pandemia. Según las estadísticas oficiales, la población de adolesce
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The Truth Gap: How Misinformation and Disinformation Online Affect the Lives, Learning and Leadership of Girls and Young Women
Surrey: Plan International (2021), 46 pp.
"We surveyed over 26,000 girls and young women in 26 countries. 91% of girls and young women surveyed are concerned about misinformation and/or disinformation online. 40% of those surveyed are extremely or very concerned. Misinformation and disinformation are having a negative impact on 87% of the g
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Effects of an E-Reader Intervention on Literacy, Numeracy and Non-Verbal Reasoning Among Adolescent Girls in Zambia: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Journal of Development Effectiveness, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 247-275
"This paper presents results from a three-arm randomized controlled trial in Zambia with a sample of nearly 1200 adolescent girls enrolled in Grade 7. Selected primary schools (N=36) were randomly assigned within each of three districts to one of three arms: 1) e-readers, which girls could take home
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What we know about the gender digital divide for girls: A literature review
UNICEF (2021), 22 pp.
"What do we know about the gender digital divide for girls? To date, there is little research on gender differences in digital access for children under the age of 18. These disparities in usage limit women’s access to the full range of opportunities offered by digital. However, the limited data a
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Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging
London; New York: Routledge (2021), 293 pp.
"Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces an
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Free to be Online? Girls' and Young Women's Experiences of Online Harassment
Surrey: Plan International (2020), 66 pp.
"More than half of girls surveyed, from around the world, have been harassed and abused online. One in four girls abused online feels physically unsafe as a result. Online abuse is silencing girls' voices. Girls are harassed just for being girls and it gets worse if they speak up about issues they c
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Going online for sexual and reproductive health meaningfully engaging adolescent girls and young women for smarter digital interventions
Girl Effect;Women Deliver (2020), vi, 41 pp.
Safe Sisters: A Common Sense Guide to Digital Safety for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
Internews;Defend Defenders (2018), 10 pp.
"We wrote this booklet to help our sisters learn about problems that we can run into on the internet (like leaked or stolen personal photos, viruses, and scams), how we can make informed decisions every day to protect ourselves, and to help make the internet a safe space for ourselves, our families,
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Young Adolescents and Digital Media: Uses, Risks and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Rapid Evidence Review
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Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE);Department for International Development (DFID) (2017), 54 pp.
"This rapid evidence review examines adolescents’ access to and use of digital media (especially mobile phones and the internet), together with the associated digital skills and practices, opportunities and risks, and forms of safety mediation, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The revi
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Children’s Online Activities, Risks and Safety: A Literature Review by the UKCCIS Evidence Group
London: UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS);London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017), 106 pp.
"Age is the key factor that differentiates among children’s online experiences, with gender also significant. One in ten children to one in five young teens say they encountered something worrying or nasty online in the past year. Children’s top worries are pornography and violence; they say the
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Making Waves: Media’s Potential for Girls in the Global South
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"Argues that media — whether traditional or online — matters a great deal in the lives of girls in the developing world. It matters because it has the ability to be harmful to girls’ interests and selfesteem, and it matters because it can also be so effective in playing a positive role in girl
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Harnessing the Power of Videos: A Video Storytelling Training Toolkit for Organizations Working with Adolescent Girls
Washington, DC: Global Fund for Children;Communicating for Change (2010), 87 pp.
"Harnessing the Power of Videos is a training toolkit for community-based organizations on how they and the adolescent girls they serve can use visual media and technology to tell their stories and those of their communities; to be heard; and, in the process, to be empowered through increased skills
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Becoming Extra-Ordinary: Negotiation of Media Power in the Case of 'Super Girls’ Voice' in China
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (2010), pp. 256-272
"This article aims at understanding the popularity and cultural and social significance of the highly prominent Chinese television show Super Girls’ Voice (the 2005 season), a talent contest largely modeled upon “reality shows” such as American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the Uni
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The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
London et al.: Sage (2008), xxi, 537 pp.
Media Communities
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2006), 342 pp.
"This book analyzes the different ways in which media are being used for community building and it also critically interrogates the concept of community itself. The authors do that from a variety of different perspectives, ranging from fundamental philosophical questions regarding community, to the
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