Five women writing about new media, activism and development
Author: <span>Rozarina</span>

Author: Rozarina

New media and technology: A reflection to blogging as part of ICT4D

New media has been described as anything that is delivered digitally to you such as emails, websites, mobiles and any internet-related form of communication[1]. However looking at this description in relation to activism and development; it is lacking some depth and concept.  Some definitions of new media focus exclusively upon …

New media and technology: Can it help to close the gender imbalance in social studies?

At our recent group blog presentations, I cannot help but noticed that many of the blogs written were taking a lens from a female-feminist perspective, in other word most of my peers in the C4D study are women.  I am of course writing this from a traditional slightly bias view …

Gender and digital violence in transnational perspective cases from Egypt and Jordan

In my previous blog entitled New Media and Technology and the gendering of the social world, I discussed how digital violence is a way to silence people from participation and could lead to a gender democratic deficit if we do not stop it.  I laid discussion and presented researches how …

New media and technology and the gendering of the social world

In my previous blog entitled new media and technology: does it make for a less violent society, I referred to a statement made by the well-known historian Niall Ferguson on a Danish television program recently.  He said and I am paraphrasing “today we don’t find real violence, only online violence, …

New media and technology: Does it make for a less violent society?

Media is defined as the mean of communication such as radio and television, print publications such as newspaper or magazines and its intent is to reach people in the masses. Still, old media is restrictive in its coverage and was often delayed, and since the internet-age that began in the …