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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Media Use, Media Consumption
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Mobile Phone Markets
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Mobile Phone Use: Women
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Mobile Phone Use: Youth
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Access to Media & Information
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Media Use: Children
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Media Use: Youth
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Electronic Commerce
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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ICT Industries & Markets
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Audience Research Methods
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Gaming: Uses & Effects
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Media & ICT Use in Authoritarian Regimes / Dictatorships
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Mobile Phone Use: Children
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Media Use: Rural Populations
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Media Use: Women, Female Media Audiences
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Milieus, Lifestyles
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Print Media Use, Press Readers
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Media Literacy: Children
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Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Development Journalism & Media Representation of Development Issues
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Internet / ICTs and Social Change
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Online News
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Social Media
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Facebook
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YouTube
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WhatsApp
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ICTs and Development
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ICT Indicators
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ICT Policies
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ICT Regulation
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Gaming, Video Games
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Sexuality: Media Representation, Sexually Explicit Media Content, Pornography
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Rural Women & Communication
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Media & Information Literacy
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Selfies, Self-Portrait Photographs
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Political Communication
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Marginality, Marginalized Groups
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Visual Communication
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Advertising
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Advertising Effects & Impact
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Audiences & Users
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Audience Research in Media Assistance
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Audience Research: Online Surveys
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Audience Research: Planning & Implementing Surveys
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Elderly People: Internet & Social Media Use
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Elderly People: Media Use
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Media Diaries
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Media Socialisation, Media Biographies, Media Life Journeys
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Media Use: Families
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Media Use: Influence of Religion
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Media Use: Urban Populations
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Radio Use: Women
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Mobile Phone Use: Elderly People
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Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Event Marketing & Communication
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Catholic Church: Public Relations & Institutional Communication
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Catholic Digital Media Presence & Online Communities
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Children and Media
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Children & Digital Media
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Children: Media Representation & Reporting
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Children's Television Programmes
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Media / Communication Control
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
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Media Ethnography
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Visual Anthropology
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Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Communication for Social Change
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Labour, Digital Work
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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Digital Skills, Digital Production Skills
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Online Media & Internet Economics
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Financing Digital / Online Media
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Digital Media Markets
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Online Radio, Internet Radio, Radio Streaming
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Instagram
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Social Media & Web 2.0 for Development
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Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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ICT4D Research
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ICT Effects & Impact
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ICT Research
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Trust Building in Health & Emergency Communication
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Game Industries, Game Production
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Media Markets
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Remittances
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Literacy, Literacy Campaigns, Postliteracy, Alphabetisation Policies
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Media Literacy: Gaming
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Feminism & Communication
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Health Communication
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Indigenous Languages
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International Radio Broadcasting, Foreign Radio Broadcasting
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Journalism
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Mobile Journalism, Video Journalism
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News
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News Reception
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Family Communication
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Media Literacy: Families
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Media Management
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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BBC
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Music
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Social Photography
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Politics
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Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers, Elites
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Sorrow
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Pilgrimages & Pilgrimage Sites
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Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Open Source Software
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Telecommunications
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies
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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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SMS
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Telephone
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Theories of Communication & Media
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User-Generated Contents
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Visual Cultures
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Youth and Media
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Youth Media
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Youth: Media Representation & Reporting
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"The data highlight statistically significant variations in information access, use and preferences among key demographic segments - notably, between rural and urban respondents, men and women, people with varying levels of education and those living in different regions of the country - all of whic ... more
"Youth and young adults (15-29) are often assumed to be leaders in mobile phone use, but this is not entirely the case in Zambia. While those 15 to 29 make up the largest segment of overall mobile phone users, they do not show the highest rate of weekly (regular) users that is taken by those 30 to 4 ... more

Mobiles for Development

UNICEF;Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO);Gamos (2010), 116 pp.
"There are increasing numbers of mobile-based projects, and donors such as the World Bank infoDev and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation continue to invest in mobiles for development (M4D). A scan of projects in the 14 focus countries for this study indicated that the most common sectors for inve ... more

Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 39 pp.
"What is clear from the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage Survey is that the diffusion of ICT is highly uneven concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched. Access to these technologies is constrained by income as is usage, and as they ... more

Mobile Communication

Cambridge, UK; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2009), xii, 191 pp.
"This report highlights the latest ICT developments in the region and includes key statistical information for every country. It features a regional analysis of the ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket, two ICT benchmarking tools that were launched in March 2009. The report point ... more

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.
"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone ... more
"This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research. It categorizes studies along two dimensions. One dimension distinguishes studies of the determinants of mobile adoption from those that assess the i ... more
"The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas ... more

Die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Implikationen der Mobiltelefonie in Ruanda: Eine Typologie unter dem Gesichtspunkt Telefonbesitz und Telefonzugang

In: Daumenkultur: das Mobiltelefon in der Gesellschaft
Peter Glotz; Stefan Bertschi; Chris Locke (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript (2006), pp. 41-59
"Trotz der Herausforderungen bei der telefonischen Erschließung abgelegener Gegenden bietet der Besitz eines Handys für Millionen individueller Nutzer im gesamten Afrika südlich der Sahara auf jeden Fall signifikante wirtschaftliche und soziale Vorteile und Möglichkeiten. Besonders wertvoll ist, ... more
"Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effect ... more
"Das Mobiltelefon hat in den letzten Jahren quer durch alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche an Bedeutung gewonnen. Sein Einfluss manifestiert sich etwa darin, wie sich Individuen zu ihren Umgebungen in Beziehung setzen: Die alltägliche Nutzung von mobilen Diensten der Text-, Sprach- und Bildübertragun ... more