Five women writing about new media, activism and development
Category: <span>Development Sector</span>

Category: Development Sector

Blogging – A Beginner’s Reflections

Aina, Nina, Rozarina, Sorina and I put together this blog in six weeks. As reflected in the theme that brough us together – i.e. “New Media, Social Movements and Development” – Five4ThePeople is a blog of mostly amateurs exploring the link between new media, development and any types of activism …

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 …

Reflecting on New Media, Activism, and Technology

As I conclude my blogging journey, it has become gradually more apparent that blogging about development often does not remain a merely virtual process, but instead inspires real-life connections with deep, lasting impacts (Denskus & Papan, 2013). This final blog post will tie together the topics I have explored in …

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 …

Waking up (in) the development sector – time to centre anti-racist efforts!

It is a long overdue reckoning with race that is currently taking place globally and across (hopefully) all sectors as a direct consequence not only of the #BlackLivesMatter protest but also as a response to locally embedded and deeply engrained oppressive structures.