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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants
London: UCL Press (2023), xiii, 193 pp.
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
London: UCL Press (2023), xviii, 291 pp.
"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin
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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the Dotcom Age
London: UCL Press (2023), xvii, 215 pp.
"Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropolog
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work in Progress
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 275 pp.
"With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil show
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To Train a Watchdog: Media Development, Statebuilding, and Measurement in South Sudan
Cardiff: Cardiff University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), ix, 291, 94 pp.
"[...] This thesis contributes to the emerging academic literature on media development and its role in statebuilding. It does so by investigating media development in the new state of South Sudan. Ethnographic observations, a social survey, and unstructured interviews have been applied during a fie
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Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 22, issue 2 (2017), pp. 163-184
"How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to answer this increasingly important but underresearched question with a year-long case study of the humanitarian news organisation IRIN as it transitioned from being funded by th
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An Ethnographic Approach to Low-Income Youth's Engagement in Communication for Social Change
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 113-129
"This article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009-2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to a
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Community Radio and Sustainability: A Participatory Research Initiative
Haryana; New Delhi: Ideosync; Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA); UNESCO (2015), 46 pp.
"Community Radio is still nascent in Bangladesh while in India it has completed a decade and in Nepal it has existed in its myriad forms without a policy for much longer [...] The existence or non-existence of a guiding national CR policy plays an important role in determining the kind of Community
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The Role of Community-Based Media in Strengthening, Preserving, and Promoting Identity and Culture: A Case Study in Eastern Thailand
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 1, issue 3 (2015), pp. 197-210
"The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyse the role of community-based media in information distribution in the Riverside community, Chanthaburi province, Eastern Thailand. Recently, this strong community has been identified as a cultural tourism destination. The community has started
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