Communicating Social Change in Perplexing Times
Category: <span>Gender equality</span>

Category: Gender equality

Mobile connected women = empowered women?

Technology is fostering individuality, leveraging democratic participation, and it has expanded women’s voices around the world, supporting global change movements and activism campaigns1. A paradigmatic illustration of this is the #BringBackOurGirls social networks’ movement around Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria back in 20142 (read more about it here …

Silencing women. How ICT creates both boundaries and opportunities for social change in Iran.

  “What is morality police?” I wondered as I first read about the unprecedented death of Mahsa Amini back in September. Her life was lost at only 22 during a family visit to Tehran after her arrest by the morality police- Islamic religious police which detains violators of the Iranian …