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The Work of Women’s NGOs on Commercial Radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and Shortcomings
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 59-75
"This article examines the work of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on West Bank radio as they represent women, a marginalized community, within a patriarchal, traditional and religious society. It also examines the commercial and societal difficulties faced by radio stations in their
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How Do ICTs Mediate Gender-Based Violence in Jamaica?
Gender & Development, volume 26, issue 2 (2018), pp. 267-282
"Gender-based violence (GBV) continues to be a serious problem in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region. Jamaicans have increasingly adopted information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last two decades. In the era of ICTs, new forms of online GBV are evolving, and ICTs also offer a m
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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Bridging the Digital Gender Divide: Include, Upskill, Innovate
Paris: OECD (2018), 150 pp.
"The road ahead is uphill: today worldwide some 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. Women are under-represented in ICT jobs, top management and academic careers and, as shown in this report, men are four times more likely than women to be ICT specia
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Why do we have to search for a line here and there on safety for women journalists?
Australian Journalism Review, volume 40, issue 2 (2018), pp. 67-71
"1,010 journalists have been killed in the last decade, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with nine out of 10 cases remaining unresolved (Guterres, 2018). Imprisonments alone total more than three times the annual death toll, and the number of journalists in jail across the globe i
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Women Into Politics! Greater Female Participation in Cambodia: A Best-Practice Handbook 2016–2018
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2018), 35 pp.
"Women are a great untapped potential in Cambodia. That is the driving idea behind the EU-funded project “Women into Politics! Greater female participation in Cambodia”. This three-year project reached women from different regions in Cambodia and gave them the communications skills they needed t
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Changing Forms and Platforms of Misogyny: Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists on Twitter
Media Watch, volume 9, issue 3 (2018), pp. 472-485
"Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to digital domains of social media- women have become victims of male dominance. So also are the other vulnerable sections that suffer multi-layered abuse, and endure sexual harassment in social media. Yet, this phenomenon is
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Women in Israeli Journalism Israel Affairs
Israel Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2018), pp. 500-518
"This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two in
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TrollBusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists
In: Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 311-332
"For women journalists, online harassment may result in emotional stress and may require legal and technological remedies to mitigate the damage caused to their identity and reputation. Perpetrators can use a combination of online and offline attacks that threaten the employment and safety of journa
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Women Empowerment: A Study of Media and its Role in Empowerment of Afghan’s Women
Indian Journal of Science and Technology, volume 11, issue 23 (2018), pp. 1-8
"During the last fourteen years, Afghan media has played a significant role in empowering women and they still do. Media has a crucial responsibility in promoting women’s participation in society. It has the power to spread messages and raise awareness for the challenges women face. Most important
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Her Farm Radio: Building Knowledge and Developing the Capacity of Malawi’s Female Farmers on Forest Landscape Restoration
IUCN (2018), 12 pp.
"As farmers, foresters and providers, women have a unique understanding of the ecosystems they live alongside. A pioneering radio programme in Malawi is tapping into this immense body of knowledge by creating a platform for women to engage in landscape restoration." (Page 1)
Final Evaluation: Gender Sensitive Public Communication Project
Search for Common Ground (2018), 68 pp.
"The Gender Sensitive Public Communications Project was implemented by Search for Common Ground in Lebanon, together with its local partner Abaad, with an aim to promote women’s participation in politics through the production of gender sensitive television drama and short films. Specifically, the
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Universal Service and Access Funds: An Untapped Resource to Close the Gender Digital Divide
Washington, DC: World Wide Web Foundation (2018), 19 pp.
"Over 68% of countries in Africa have a Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) in place; 62% of these funds are active. Just 3 of the 37 countries with USAFs have universal access policies that explicitly aim to connect women and girls through the fund. Just 23 African countries openly publish det
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Safe Sisters: A Common Sense Guide to Digital Safety for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
Internews; Defend Defenders (2018), 10 pp.
"We wrote this booklet to help our sisters learn about problems that we can run into on the internet (like leaked or stolen personal photos, viruses, and scams), how we can make informed decisions every day to protect ourselves, and to help make the internet a safe space for ourselves, our families,
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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.
"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a
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Rapid Assessment on Information Ecosytem and Access to Justice for SGBV Survivors, Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Internews (2018), 39 pp.
"Between October and December 2018, Internews carried out a rapid assessment in Kyangwali to examine two key issues: the settlement’s information ecosystem, and the formal and informal justice system operational in the settlement and available particularly to survivors of sexual and gender-based v
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Women and TV Culture in Pakistan: Gender, Islam and National Identity
London: Tauris (2018), xii, 228 pp.
"The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002. The President, General Pervez Musharraf, introduced a policy of liberalisation that enabled controversial issues such as honour killings, adultery, stoning to death, domestic violence, marriage after divorce and homos
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