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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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Paying for Access or Content? Blurred Understandings of Mobile Internet Data in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda
In: GlobDev 2016: Proceedings Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development
"The paper addresses the blurred understandings of what developing country mobile internet users feel they are paying for. The move towards increasing online news and music consumption around the world has resulted in low growth in paid content consumption and a digital advertising market that is no
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State of the Use of Mobile Technologies for Disaster Preparedness in South East Asia
Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (2015), 66 pp.
"This project is conducted in response to Global Disaster Preparedness Center’s (GDPC) initiative of developing flood hazard preparedness mobile apps in the four target countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam)." (Executive summary)
Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
Mobile Metrics for Journalists
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2015), 11 pp.
Quand l'Afrique réinvente la téléphonie mobile
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 259 pp.
"Entre hybridation et réinvention, les pratiques communicationnelles liées à la téléphonie mobile offrent des perspectives de recherche stimulantes. Pour les opérateurs de téléphonie, il s’ouvre un réel champ, où d’observation en expérimentation, se créent de nouvelles offres. Au-del
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On the Liveness of Mobile Phone Mediation: Youth Expectations of Remittances and Narratives of Discontent in the Cameroonian Transnational Family
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 3, issue 1 (2015), pp. 20-35
"Drawn from multisited fieldwork conducted among Cameroonians in Germany and Cameroon, the article reveals that the liveness of mobile phone communication influences expectations and narratives of remittances in Cameroonian transnational social relationships. These expectations are meaningful within
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Texting, Tweeting, and Talking: Effects of Smartphone Use on Engagement in Civic Discourse in China
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-19
"Media use and talking with others have been found to have positive effects on citizens' civic participation according to Wyatt, Katz, and Kim (2000). Recent research links informational uses of the mobile phone to increased involvement in civic and political life. Building on this line of research,
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Mobile Media and Political Participation: Defining and Developing an Emerging Field
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (2014), pp. 173-195
"This article uses interdisciplinary insights and a critical review of relevant literature to identify research opportunities that stand to advance mobile political communication theory. Contributions and limitations of studies focused on ICTs and political participation are reviewed and discussed.
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Protest per Handycam: Die Grüne Bewegung im Iran
Marburg: Tectum (2014), 131 pp.
"Die 'Grüne Bewegung', die Protestbewegung infolge der iranischen Präsidentschaftswahlen, machte im Sommer 2009 international Schlagzeilen. Das Mobiltelefon wurde dabei zum Symbol und zur Waffe des Volkes: Mit Handyfotos und -videos wurde das brutale Vorgehen der iranischen Machthaber gegen die Be
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Cambodia: From Big Screen to Small
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 37 slides
"Cambodia is a country on the cusp of rapid media change. TV and radio remain the top media and main sources of news. Apolitical newcomer Hang Meas is top source with tabloid news, entertainment. But new media is gaining, fueled by widespread mobile use: almost all households have a mobile phone; yo
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Global Digital Statistics 2014: We Are Social's Snapshot of Key Digital Indicators
Singapore: We Are Social (2014), 181 slides
Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82
"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res
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Feature Phone User Survey: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
London: Balancing Act (2014), 64 pp.
"Feature phone users are significantly more likely to use the Internet almost as much radio and TV for news and information. This is not an either/or set of choices but the Internet is part of the range of media they use. Internet is in second position in Nigeria, third position in Ethiopia and Keny
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Pakistan: Audience Realities in an Unstable Media Landscape
Gallup; Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2014), 43 slides
"TV is the main information platform by far, but the importance of individual channels varies by region and modes of access. Population is divided between those with access to non-State TV and those without. While most express generic satisfaction with media, actual opinions about specific channels
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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results
London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium
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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2013), xxxii, 293 pp.
"Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Will the Social Media Lenses be the Framework for Sustainable Development in Rural Nigeria?
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 237-254
"As academia, development experts and policy-makers have continued to search for the right mix of technology, methodology, easy-to-use and understandable scientific elements and infrastructure that would suit the nation’s peculiar circumstances towards meeting her developmental needs. This situati
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