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Browsing Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue No. 16: Emerging Gender, Media and Technology Scholarship in Africa by Issue Date
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Jaksch, Marla L
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
Giving birth can be a life or death matter for many pregnant women. As a consequence of the high rates of maternal death in many countries, death in childbirth has come to be understood as an unfortunate yet accepted part ...
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Kwami, Janet D
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
While access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the internet has increased over the last couple of years, new digital inequalities also continue to emerge regarding gender, ...
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Vanyoro, Kudzaiishe
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
Using discourse analysis and semiotic analysis, this article examines how the language and images of the “4men” section of the South African site QueerLife construct masculinity and femininity as (un)desirable aspects in ...
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Mohammed, Wunpini Fatimata
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
This article examines Akumaa Mama Zimbi’s activism in the Ghanaian social media landscape, specifically Twitter. I argue that while it is imperative to critique her hashtag activism for its complicity with patriarchal ...
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Atuhura, Dorothy
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
With illustrations drawn from Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers’s documentary Framing the Other (2012), this article rethinks media representation of the contact between Mursi lip-plated women of Ethiopia and Western tourists ...
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Komen, Leah Jerop
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
The increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephony has the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrog ...
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Gadzekpo, Audrey; Gardner, Paula; Steeves, Leslie H
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
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Nyanoti, Joseph
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
Kenya is known globally as the home of world champions in athletics, including the Olympics. However, although the Olympic games dominate public discourse in Kenya when they are being held every four years, there is hardly ...
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Steeves, H. Leslie
(Fembot Collective, 2020-02)
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