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 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 …
Image above: Ketty Nivyabandi kneels down in exasperation during the 13 May 2015 women-only led protests. Photo by © Joseph Ndayisenga From leader of the first ever women-only street protests in Bujumbura, Burundi to Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, anglophone branch In my first blog post a few weeks ago, a …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 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 …
