Globally, the use of mobile phones for improving access to healthcare and conducting
health research has gained traction in recent years as rates of ownership increase …

WhatsApp's ubiquity in many people's everyday lives points at new possibilities for
conducting online and mobile focus groups. Yet, research on the benefits and potential …

There is increasing interest in the use of ethnography as a qualitative research approach to
explore, in depth, issues of culture in health professions education (HPE). Our specific focus …

The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in
2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront …

Increasing demands for fact-checking have led to a growing interest in developing systems
and tools to automate the fact-checking process. However, such systems are limited in …

Digital astroturfing and computational propaganda have drawn a lot of attention in recent
years because of the malicious effects on the political environment, especially in the face of …

This article presents WhatsApp as a means of data collection among vulnerable
populations, reporting on a study conducted in South Africa and Zimbabwe, to determine the …

Drawing on preliminary research about the spread of mis-and disinformation across Asian
diasporic communities, we advocate for qualitative research methodologies that can better …

This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and
use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram …

This paper investigates how the appropriation of chat apps by social actors is redesigning
digital activism and political participation today. To this end, we look at the case of# Unidos …