Online Around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media and Social Apps

Online Around the World aims to provide a snapshot of internet, social media and technology usage in 86 countries. The encyclopedia is organized into three major parts: Introduction, Overview of Social Media Sites and Country sections. The introduction explains the encyclopedia’s goal and introduces terms and concepts used to describe the state of a country’s digital status and perceptions. Some of the concepts are highly specific and the introduction does a good job of explaining terms’ use and limits. Demographic and usage data varies between countries and the section warns of the difficulty in comparing countries due to economic, political...