Last week, two of the #Five4thePeople, Nina and Danie sat down (virtually!) for a conversation on the NonHuman Nonsense, a large-scope initiative by Leo Fidjeland’s and Linnea Våglund and their project Planetary Personhood in particular. The result of their exchange is summarized in what follows.
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 …
What comes to mind when you think of a WhatsApp group? Yet another app for hanging out as family, school friends or perhaps for planning a surprise party on the occasion of yet another cousin’s 50th birthday? Has it occasionally felt as though the app had become a tool for advancing …
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 …
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, chatbots have played an important role in sharing awareness about COVID-19 via messaging apps. In this blog post, I will tackle the topic of “digital divides” again, this time discussing Proto – a Canadian company that recognizes the challenges faced by many countries …
