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Radio journalism and women's empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood

Journalism studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362

"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic... more

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Engendering hate: the contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online

Ellen Judosn; Asli Atay; Alex Krasodomski-Jones; Rose Lasko-Skinner; Josh Smith

London: Demos (2020), 40 pp.

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"Online spaces are being systematically weaponised to exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life. Attacks on women which use hateful language, rumour and gendered stereotypes combine personal attacks with political motivations, making online spaces dangerous places for w... more

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Leveraging big data to advance gender equality

Ahmed Nauraiz Rana

Washington, DC: International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2020), 7 pp.

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"Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues—discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources, and technology—and work across economic sectors... more

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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more

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Violence and trolling on social media: history, affect, and effects of online vitriol

Sara Polak; Daniel Trottier (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.

ISBN 978-94-6298-948-1 (print); 978-90-4854-204-8 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati... more

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Alternate realities, alternate internets: African feminist research for a feminist internet

Neema Iyer; Bonnita Nyamwire; Sandra Nabulega

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), 50 pp.

"For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalization, digital tools enable groups that are marginalized across the intersections of gender, race, sex, class, religion, ability and nationality to pr... more

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Credible threat: attacks against women online and the future of democracy

Sarah Sobieraj

New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xii, 174 pp., bibliogr. p.157-168, index

ISBN 978-0-19-008929-0 (pbk); 978-0-19-008931-3 (online)

"This book argues that the rampant hate-filled attacks against women online are best understood as patterned resistance to women’s political voice and visibility. This abuse and harassment coalesces into an often-unrecognized form of gender inequality that constrains women’s use of digital publi... more

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Sexual and gender-based violence: a glossary from A to Z

Paris: FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights (2020), 213 pp.

"Based on our engagement with multiple stakeholders involved in the movement to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) decided to develop this Glossary to identify and clarify key definitions that practitioners should, at a minimum, be well a... more

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Reaching 50 million women with mobile: a practical guide

Dominica Lindsey et al.

London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2020), 41 pp.

"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per... more

Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering

International journal of market research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

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"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im... more

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Free to be online? Girls' and young women's experiences of online harassment

Surrey: Plan International (2020), 66 pp.

"More than half of girls surveyed, from around the world, have been harassed and abused online. One in four girls abused online feels physically unsafe as a result. Online abuse is silencing girls' voices. Girls are harassed just for being girls and it gets worse if they speak up about issues they c... more

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Fighting violence against women online: a comparative analysis of legal frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

Chioma Nwaodike; Nerissa Naidoo

Internews; Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.

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"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge... more

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The role of community radios in information dissemination to rural women in South Africa

Madeleine C. Fombad; Glenrose Veli Jiyane

Journal of librarianship and information science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58

"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w... more

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Rollenbilder in den sozialen Medien und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gleichberechtigung

Anabela Brandao; Sabine Marxen; Anne Rütten

Hamburg: Plan International Deutschland (2019), 11 pp.

"Die Befragung hat gezeigt, dass das Thema Gleichberechtigung durchaus etwas ist, mit dem sich fast alle Nutzerinnen und Nutzer grundsätzlich beschäftigen. Sie hat auch einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen der Nutzung von Social Media und der persönlichen Einstellung der Userinnen und User hinsicht... more

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Violence against women in elections online: a social media analysis tool

Washington, DC: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); USAID (2019), 72 pp.

"Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their civil and political rights. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new vehicles for violence against women in elections (VAWIE), including violence that takes place on so... more

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Legal responses to online harassment and abuse of journalists: perspectives from Finland, France and Ireland

Jonathan McCully et al.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; International Press Institute (IPI) (2019), 39 pp.

"This report specifically examines legal remedies for online attacks against journalists. It looks at three case studies, in Finland, France and Ireland, of female journalists who were viciously attacked online for their work and the ensuing attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable. From an ana... more

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Taking stock: data and evidence on gender equality in digital access, skills and leadership

Araba Sey; Nancy Hafkin (eds.)

United Nations University; Equals Global Partnership (2019), 338 pp., many tables, figures, abbrev. p.14-16

"1. While gender gaps are observable in most aspects of ICT access, skills and leadership, the picture is complex. There are large regional variations: some countries are close to parity or have even reversed the gender gap on some indicators, while others still have persistent gaps. Individual coun...tries can have both large and small gaps, depending on the indicator being measured. Interpreting the gaps requires careful and contextualised analysis.2. Barriers to gender digital equality are generally related to one or more of the following: 1) availability of infrastructure; 2) financial constraints; 3) ICT ability and aptitude; 4) interest and perceived relevance of ICTs; 5) safety and security; and 6) socio-cultural and institutional contexts. Most of these barriers cut across issues of access, skills, and leadership, although they may manifest in slightly different ways. While research has documented these barriers, the evidence from different sources is sometimes contradictory, even within the same country contexts.3. There is no one conclusive strategy for eliminating gender digital inequalities. Recommendations generally call either for targeting specific contributing factors of gender digital inequality (such as affordability or recruiting practices), or for reshaping deeply ingrained social norms and practices (such as gender stereotypes) that are at the root of gender inequalities. As with the evidence on barriers, research results are sometimes contradictory or nuanced.4. The dominant approaches to gender equality in ICT access, skills, and leadership mostly frame issues in binary (male/female) terms, thereby masking the relevance of other pertinent identities. Insufficient research has been done on the implications of ICTs for intersectional identities. Data collection should move from binary sexdisaggregation towards finer degrees of status disaggregation in order to recognise multiple and interacting identities (such as sexuality, poverty, class, education, age, disability, and occupation).5. To ensure privacy and safety as well as full participation in the digital economy, women should have equal opportunities to develop adequate basic and advanced digital skills. Cyberstalking, online harassment, image manipulation, privacy violations, geotracking, and surveillance can compromise women’s and girls’ safety both online and offline. In addition, some evidence suggests the digital transformation of labour may be widening gender wage gaps. These outcomes can be averted with the right types of training combined with social and institutional change.6. Developments in digital technologies open new pathways to gender diversity and inclusion; however, lack of attention to gender dynamics and differences hampers the potential for true progress. For example, evidence suggests that most women’s work in the digital economy, particularly in the Global South, reinforces existing social divisions. Moreover, artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, designed largely by men, tend to ignore the negative gender implications of their designs. Research, government policy and design principles should include gender awareness and analysis, for example by building in data and privacy protections and avoiding gender stereotypes." (Key findings, p.19-20) more

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Sector publicitario y género: agencias de publicidad, asociaciones, sindicatos e instituciones educativas analizados con perspectiva feminista

Sandra Chaher; Virginia Pedraza (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Comunicación para la Igualdad Ediciones (2019), 174 pp., bibliogr. p.167-174

ISBN 978-987-45579-6-4

"La publicidad pareciera ser una industria con marcada paridad laboral si se la evalúa desde el punto de vista de la inclusión de las mujeres como fuerza laboral, ya que éstas representan el 49,5% de las personas empleadas. Sin embargo, el análisis al interior del rubro da cuenta de notables des... more

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#eSkills4Girls: eine Initiative zur Förderung digitaler Kompetenzen von Frauen und Mädchen. Rückblick und Perspektiven

Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2019), 30 pp.

"Die #eSkills4Girls-Initiative ist im Rahmen der G20-Präsidentschaft Deutschlands im Jahr 2017 entstanden. Ziel der Initiative ist es, die digitale Kluft zwischen Männern und Frauen zu überwinden und insbesondere für Frauen und Mädchen durch digitale Kompetenzen bessere Bildungsund Beschäftigu... more

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Palabra de mujer: manual con enfoque de género para profesionales del periodismo

Elisa Blásquez Zarcero; Inmaculada Franco Fernández; Raquel Perianes Paín

Asociación de Periodistas de Cáceres; Instituto de la Mujer de Extremadura (2019), 53 pp.

"¿Qué es el periodismo con perspectiva de género? ¿Es informar más sobre la mujer? ¿Es hacer más suplementos para ella? ¿Es entrevistar a más mujeres? Rotundamente no. De nada valen esas opciones, si ese suplemento, esa entrevista, esa mayor presencia femenina continúa perpetuando estereot... more

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Radio journalism and women's empowerment in Niger

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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

Violence and trolling on social media: history, affect, and effects of online vitriol

Alternate realities, alternate internets: African feminist research for a feminist internet

Credible threat: attacks against women online and the future of democracy

Sexual and gender-based violence: a glossary from A to Z

Reaching 50 million women with mobile: a practical guide

Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering

Free to be online? Girls' and young women's experiences of online harassment

Fighting violence against women online: a comparative analysis of legal frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

The role of community radios in information dissemination to rural women in South Africa

Rollenbilder in den sozialen Medien und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gleichberechtigung

Violence against women in elections online: a social media analysis tool

Legal responses to online harassment and abuse of journalists: perspectives from Finland, France and Ireland

Taking stock: data and evidence on gender equality in digital access, skills and leadership

Sector publicitario y género: agencias de publicidad, asociaciones, sindicatos e instituciones educativas analizados con perspectiva feminista

#eSkills4Girls: eine Initiative zur Förderung digitaler Kompetenzen von Frauen und Mädchen. Rückblick und Perspektiven

Palabra de mujer: manual con enfoque de género para profesionales del periodismo