University Students' Perceptions and Usage Behaviour of Mobile Media.

      Аннотация: The book Mobile Media provides exploration on how technologies are taken-on and utilized in Nigeria with university students as a focus of investigation. Evidence from the qualitative via focus groups interviews and quantitative via survey of students in two studied locations: Benson Idahosa University and Delta State University unfolded diverse usage potentialities of mobile media technologies suggesting that Nigeria as a developing society is benefiting from the advanced technologies of developed societies. The eight chapters in the book is well researched, with complimentary works of other researchers in mobile media around the world. The book is therefore useful to academics and researchers in the field of media and communication, social media researchers, students, media practitioners, communication policy makers and lovers of media and communication

Ключевые слова: Nigeria, social capital, university students, Mobile Media (feature phones and smartphones), Social Construction of Technology, Fiske Paradigm of Sociality, mixed methods, Digital Network Society Theory, Social Media Sites