A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil,
and across the Middle East—home to most of the world's internet users—and discovers that …

Digital media are integrated into the lives of adolescents in almost every corner of the globe,
yet the extent of integration, how media are used, and the effects of media in development …

In recent years, research on online impression management has received considerable
scholarly attention, with an increasing focus on how the affordances of new media shape the …

Facebook has consolidated its position as the one-stop-shop for social activity among the
poor in the global South. Sex, romance, and love are key motivations for mobile and Internet …

Sexting consists of sending, receiving, and distributing images of sexually suggestive
content through electronic devices. This practice is one of the new ways of linking sex …

Research on women's social media practices in Muslim societies has primarily focused on
middle-class or elite women, such as influencers, activists, and members of online …

Modern globalization has transformed the lives of young people around the world, rendering
them members of multiple cultures whether or not they have traveled beyond their …

Facebook has recently gained popularity among young, digitally literate and predominantly
urban Pakistanis. Such social networking sites allow users the freedom to express …

This article draws on long-term ethnographic research on the uses of social media and their
consequences for people's everyday lives to shed light on how young men's long-standing …

This study examines how teenage users in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, and
Islamabad view Facebook posts as social change mediators and how they affect gender …