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 …
This blog post will focus on an event I attended (virtually, of course) on October 8, 2020. As a Canadian female with an educational background and avid interest in foreign policy, my attention was immediately drawn to this event, aptly named “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy: Past, Present, Future”. I recognize …
This blog entry explores the politics of archiving and how new media is opening up new forms of cataloguing information, amplifying decolonized discourse building.
In my early 20’s I ended up being drawn to a methodology called design thinking, starting in university in Finland where I was surrounded by plenty of buzzwordy places like a “Design Factory”, accelerators, social innovation bootcamps and more. Design thinking is an iterative process and set of tools to …
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, …
How do stock image databases impact development work? The power of new media is tackling longstanding issues of representation in development.
Don’t we all prefer to have choices than to be thrust onto a certain path in life? The gratification one achieves from making that choice may not always be certain beforehand as is the case with most decisions we face, from the most existential of is there a God to …
Let’s look at how a controversial “social media tax” has impacted Uganda’s digital economy, with a particular focus on SafeBoda – a mobile app with a social mission: to improve the welfare and livelihoods in Africa by empowering people to live safer and healthier lives. WHAT IS SAFEBODA? SafeBoda is …
Let me begin with Blumer’s 1969 (quoted in Crossley 2002:3) definition of what social movements are: Social movements can be viewed as collective enterprises seeking to establish a new order of life. They have their inception in a condition of unrest, and derive their move power on one hand from …
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 …
