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Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 39 pp.
"What is clear from the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage Survey is that the diffusion of ICT is highly uneven concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched. Access to these technologies is constrained by income as is usage, and as they
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GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small Grants That Made Big Changes for Women in Agriculture
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2010), 45 pp.
"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and
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Fair Lady: Effective Coverage of Politics in a Women’s Magazine
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2010), pp. 163-185
"The article discusses the coverage of politics in South African women’s magazine Fair Lady in selected years from democratisation in 1994 to ten years later in 2004. In a democracy, the media has the explicit duty to inform society. Within this context three questions are asked: (1) Which politic
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Harnessing the Power of Videos: A Video Storytelling Training Toolkit for Organizations Working with Adolescent Girls
Washington, DC: Global Fund for Children; Communicating for Change (2010), 87 pp.
"Harnessing the Power of Videos is a training toolkit for community-based organizations on how they and the adolescent girls they serve can use visual media and technology to tell their stories and those of their communities; to be heard; and, in the process, to be empowered through increased skills
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Nosotras también existimos! Manual de lenguaje no sexista
Ciudad de Guatemala: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala (CERIGUA) (2010), 53 pp.
Investigación en prensa escrita sobre violencia contra las mujeres 2001-210
Ciudad de Guatemala: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala (CERIGUA) (2010), 36 pp.
Medien - Krieg - Geschlecht: Affirmationen und Irritationen sozialer Ordnungen
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), 363 pp.
"Die Bedeutung von Medien für den Krieg und das Gendering des Militärischen sind zwei seit langem kontrovers diskutierte Themen in den Medien-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Weisen etablierte stereotype Bilder von friedfertigen Frauen und kriegerischen Männern in gegenwärtigen medialen Texte
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La perspectiva de género en las cuñas televisivas sobre VIH
Washington, DC: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2010), xi, 35 pp.
Gender Matters: Female Perspectives in ICT4D Research
[authors] (2010), 11 pp.
"We present our experience of gender as female ICT4D researchers. We highlight our field experiences and comment on our perceptions of how being a woman and performing our female identity has influenced our own ICT4D research. We discuss how gender tensions are further compounded by the researcher
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Iraqi Women Journalists’ Challenges and Predicaments
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 223-236
"This article aims at reviewing the condition of Iraqi female journalists specifically after the US invasion in 2003 by using different Arabic and English sources. The study argues that female Iraqi journalists enjoyed new freedoms of speech and got new opportunities to improve professionally after
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Becoming Extra-Ordinary: Negotiation of Media Power in the Case of 'Super Girls’ Voice' in China
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (2010), pp. 256-272
"This article aims at understanding the popularity and cultural and social significance of the highly prominent Chinese television show Super Girls’ Voice (the 2005 season), a talent contest largely modeled upon “reality shows” such as American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the Uni
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Challenging the Lion in its Den: Dilemmas of Gender and Media Activism in South Africa
Butler University, College of Communication (2010), 23 pp.
"Media activism groups work to bring about change in the mainstream media, but their gains are often limited. Drawing on theories of the political function of news in a democracy, media sociology, and feminism, this article focuses on the specific experience of Gender Links, a Southern African gende
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African Women and ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
Deep Insights
London; Ottawa: Zed Books; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), ix, 222 pp.
"Women in Africa are undeniably participating in the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution and they are doing so in many and varied ways; the changes that the use of these tools have brought about are visible everywhere. Furthermore, the prospects of ICTs for development and wome
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Empowering Messages. What You Should Know: Strategic Communication and Gender-Based Violence
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2009), 90 pp.
"There are several organisations in Africa which aim to eliminate the incidence of gender-based violence through such actions as education, advocacy, lobbying and media-based interventions. What follows is a tool that aims to: facilitate the building of stronger, more sustainable communications camp
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Reporting Gender-Based Violence: A Handbook for Journalists
Johannesburg: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa (2009), 73 pp.
Getting the Balance Right: Gender Equality in Journalism
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); UNESCO (2009), v, 50 pp.
"This handbook is an illustrated and easy-to-read guide and resource material for journalists. It evolved primarily out of a desire to equip all journalists with more information and understanding of gender issues in their work. It is addressed to media organisations, professional associations and j
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The Impact of the BBC World Service Trust's Programme Afghan Woman's Hour: Results from a National Survey in Afghanistan
Kabul: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 68 pp.
"1. Overall awareness of Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) in Afghanistan was found to be high; 50% of all those who had listened to the radio in the previous month were aware of AWH. Awareness was higher in the South Western region at 64% compared with the lowest level of awareness at 23% in the Hazarjat
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