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Digitale Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen
Stuttgart:
Klett-Cotta
(2018), 245 pp., bibliogr. p.241-245
ISBN 978-3-608-96033-4 (print); 9783608110371 (ebook)
"Seit das DSM 5 die »Internet Gambling Disorder« als Störungsbild unter Vorbehalt auswies, sind Medien erstmals in den Einzugsbereich therapeutischen Handelns gerückt. Da für Diagnostik und Therapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit medienbezogenen Störungen von analytischer und tiefenpsycholog...
Ugandan women online: a quantitative survey on digital literacy in Uganda
Pollicy; Internews
(2018), 21 pp.
"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal...
Connected women: the mobile gender gap report 2018
London:
GSMA
(2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi...
A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use
London:
GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
(2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r...
The little data book on information and communication technology 2018
Washington, DC; Geneva:
World Bank; International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2018), vi, 240 pp., glossary p.235-240
ISBN 978-0-8213-8996-6 (print); 978-0-8213-9519-6 (ebook)
CC BY-NC
"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban...
Nach der Revolution: ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen
Berlin; Duisburg:
Tempus Corporate; Haniel Stiftung
(2017), 204 pp.
ISBN 978-3-945627-15-0 (pbk)
Manual de telefonía celular comunitaria: conectando al siguiente billón
México, DF:
Equidad y Sustentabilidad Redes por la Diversidad
(2016), 57 pp.
"En 2013 inició operaciones la primera red de Telefonía Celular Comunitaria indígena en la comunidad Villa Talea de Castro en la Sierra Norte del estado de Oaxaca, en un esquema de red privada y utilizando un segmento del espectro atribuido a uso libre. En 2014, la entonces llamada Comisión Fede...
Social media in the Arab world: communication and public opinion in the Gulf states
London:
Tauris
(2016), xv, 258 pp., bibliogr. p.239-257, index
ISBN 978-0-85772-835-7
"Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically emp...
Digital humanities and digital media: conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy
London:
Open Humanities Press
(2016), 304 pp.
ISBN 978-1-78542-031-3 (pdf); 978-1-78542-030-6 (print)
CC BY-SA
Protecting children from online sexual exploitation: a guide to action for religious leaders and communities
Bangkok; New York:
ECPAT International; Religions for Peace
(2016), 37 pp.
"It is our sincerest hope that this guide will have provided you with a greater understanding about online child sexual exploitation. We hope it has also given you a clearer realisation of the important role that you and your faith community can play in helping to prevent and end this crime. Togethe...
GfK Kit de planeamiento digital Perú 2017, versión corta: Peú urbano
Lima:
GfK Perú
(2016), 28 pp.
"Se incrementa la cantidad de usuarios conectados con respecto a hace un año. Penetración de Internet llega a 81% en el NSE AB y a 82% en el segmento más joven." (slide 8)
Red Intergeneracional para la Promoción del Uso Seguro de Internet: una mirada a la situación actual y una propuesta metodológica
la Niña y Adolescentes Instituto Interamericano del Niño; World Visión República Dominicana
(2016), 128 pp., glossary p.20-21
"La presente propuesta metodológica para la promoción del uso seguro del Internet producto de un acuerdo de trabajo entre el Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes (IIN-OEA) y World Visión República Dominicana aborda, en forma conjunta, los desafíos que, desde la perspectiv...
Ericsson mobility report
Ericsson
(2016), 31 pp., illustr., abbrev. p.31
"In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we continue to describe the evolution towards the Networked Society. Between 2015 and 2021, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent, making up close to 16 billion of the total forecast 28 billion ...
Strategies for reaching digital media users in MENA: one region, multiple realities
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup
(2015), 32 slides
Bridging the gender gap: mobile access and usage in low- and middle-income countries. Connected women 2015
GSMA; Altai Consulting
(2015), 128 pp., many tables, bibliogr. p.126-128
"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ...
Africa online: media use in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the media survey - Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup
(2015), 29 slides
"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by...
Hotlines: responding to reports of illegal online content. A guide to setting up an internet hotline
London:
GSMA; Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content; International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)
(2014), 30 pp.
"As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting online child sexual abuse content and, in particular, to helping its members realise the objectives of the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content, the GSMA has worked with INHOPE, Save the Children, ECPAT, IWF, Net Safe Latvia, Meldpunt, ICM...
Travel guide to the digital world: surveillance and international standards
London:
Global Partners Digital
(2014), 98 pp., glossary p.80-84, web direct. p.86-87
"The internet has enabled an unprecedented ability to monitor and track people and information flows as highlighted in the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden about online surveillance carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency. The revelations have kicked off debates across the wor...
Wissenskluft und Digital Divide
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2014), 121 pp., diagr., bibliogr. p.107-119
ISBN 978-3-8329-7857-0 (pbk); 978-3-8452-6024-2 (online)
"Der Band gibt eine fundierte, knappe und anschauliche Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen, methodischen Zugänge, empirischen Befunde und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge der Wissenskluftforschung. Diese geht von wachsenden Wissensdifferenzen zwischen statushöheren und -niedrigeren Gruppi...
Social media and elections in Asia-Pacific: the growing power of the youth vote
Singapore:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
(2013), 164 pp., tables
"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...
