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Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria: A Case Study of ICT Access and Usage in Lagos Metropolis

Oluwakemi Matilda Akinleye

Leicester: University of Leicester, Department of Media and Communication, Master of Arts Thesis (2017), 65 pp.

"This research assesses the access and usage of ICT (mobile and smart phones, personal computer, tablets and ipads) and internet by residents of Lagos in Nigeria, with emphasis on the availability and use of ICT for socioeconomic and political growth. ICT access and usage is indispensable in today's ... more

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Networks of Communication in South Africa: New Media, New Technologies

R. Sooryamoorthy

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xii, 288 pp.

"R. Sooryamoorthy examines the development of communication patterns, social contacts and networks in South Africa. Based on pioneering quantitative and qualitative data, he analyses trends in changing media use in Africa, showing the development of the use of new media for communication by South Af ... more

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Afghan Information Ecosystems: A Design Research Approach

Internews; Sayara Research (2017), 82 pp.

"Afghanistan has made great strides in establishing media and communications outlets. However, very little is known about the ways in which Afghans actually engage in information exchange. To inform work with the media and effectively enhance access to information in Afghanistan, Internews commissio ... more

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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective

Daniel Miller, Jolynna Sinanan

London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.

"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their ... more

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Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42

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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

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The Arab World Online 2017: Digital Transformations and Societal Trends in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Fadi Salem

Dubai: Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (2017), 61 pp.

"In this decade of digital transformation in the region, the Arab World stands at a critical juncture, where the internet is driving three interconnected waves of change: 1. A developmental juncture: The emergence of an online critical mass of 173 million interconnected people online today is creati ... more

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The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods

Luke Sloan, Anabel Quan-Haase (eds.)

London: Sage (2017), 709 pp.

"The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on spec ... more

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Mídias sociais no Brasil emergente: Como a internet afeta a mobilidade social

Juliano Spyer

London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 291 pp.

"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
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Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2017), 139 pp.

"Compared to five years ago, internet penetration rose in all six countries surveyed and most dramatically in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Smartphone ownership tracks closely with internet use in the six surveyed countries. Nearly all nationals in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE own a sma ... more

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Digital vs. traditional media consumption: Analyzing time devoted to online and traditional forms of media at a global level, as well as by age and across countries

London: GlobalWebIndex (2017), 33 slides

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Social Media in Afghanistan: Users and Engagement

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 74 pp.

"Access to and use of internet in Afghanistan has grown in the past decade to reach approximately 12% of the population. Social media penetration has followed the same course, challenging traditional media platforms and providing new platforms for public discourse. Social media carries the expectati ... more

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Brazil: Media from the Country of the Future

Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Apryl Williams (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2017), xl, 393 pp.

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Media in Third-Wave Democracies: Southern and Central/Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Péter Bajomi-Lázár (ed.)

Paris; Budapest: L'Harmattan (2017), 238 pp.

"The media and political systems of former communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe share a number of similarities with those in Southern Europe. According to Karol Jakubowicz, these similarities also include late democratisation, a weak middle class, marked social and economic differences, a s ... more

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Digital News Report 2017

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 133 pp.

"The report is based on a survey of more than 70,000 people in 36 markets, along with additional qualitative research, which together make it the most comprehensive ongoing comparative study of news consumption in the world. A key focus remains in Europe where we have added Slovakia, Croatia, and Ro ... more

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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change

Juliano Spyer

London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.

"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics ... more

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Social Media in the Arab World: Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States

Barrie Gunter, Mokhtar Elareshi, Khalid Al-Jaber (eds.)

London: Tauris (2016), xv, 258 pp.

"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 ... more

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How the World Changed Social Media

Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, Xinyuan Wang

London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xxiv, 262 pp.

"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re ... more

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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks

Tom McDonald

London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.

"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East 2016: A Six-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2016), 110 pp.

"It is too often assumed anyone can communicate via the internet or share in the benefits of easily available newspapers and free-to-air television or radio; this is not always true. Lower internet penetration and mobile broadband access in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, for example, stand in sha ... more

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