“Is simply realising there is a problem enough to provoke change and promote lasting gender equality?” #metoo part 1 ended with this question; let’s try to give some answers step-by-step. Ok, the victim will talk, will feel safe to talk, BUT after the sexual abuse has happened. In respect to that,…
“Priest uses public transportation to sexually harass young women” This was the headline in many online news sites in Greece some months ago. Eventually, the news made it to the national television and a public discussion started. The story broke out publicly by a university student, the latest victim of…
“ Are they not simply comics? ” Massimo Repetti wondered and closed his essay about comics from Africa back in 2007. Although the excerpt meant to discuss the place of African comics’ production globally, it has at least one more reading. As we will end up seeing its notion is…
I personally find communication for social and behaviour change really interesting and challenging. As I wrote in one of my previous blog posts, it’s really fascinating how with the use of words and visuals you can actually influence people’s behaviour. It’s a rather complex process which involves development of theory…
Let’s talk about development. No, let’s talk about blogging instead. Hmmm, let’s talk about the development of blogs. That doesn’t make sense. What about blogging about development then? Yeah, yeah, that’s it. “Look at that fancy hipster blog, tsk tsk tsk..” said the Formal Publication to Official Communication When…
A contemporary look at ICT4D literature. Not a critical view of Communication for Development, but rather a presentational one. Chapters by Jill Walker Rettberg (2013). Articles by Julie Ferguson, Maura Soekijad, Marleen Huysman, and Emmanuelle Vaast (2013), and Tobias Denskus and Andrea S. Papan (2013). Blogging (a short presentation…
Here are some key posts from our Twitter feed the past couple days, or else, meanwhile on twitter: This week streetfootballworld and CommonGoal welcomed the 5th #CommonGoal contributor, the Italian male footballer Giorgio Chiellini: Thrilled to welcome the 5th team member of @CommonGoalOrg to join @juanmata8, @matshummels, @mPinoe and @alexmorgan13: Benvenuto @chiellini!…
A contemporary look at ICT4D literature. Not a critical view of Communication for Development, but rather a presentational one. Articles by Graham Meikle (2016), Chao Guo and Gregory D. Saxton (2013), and Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto and Krishna P. Gummadi (2010) Social Media: Communication Sharing and Visibility…
It won’t probably surprise anyone that development organizations use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their activities. But there are heated debates among Communication for Development (ComDev) theorists and practitioners of whether ICTs are actually enhancing development initiatives or deepening the gap between developed and developing countries, thus limiting participation…
Football nowadays seems to have taken a debatable and obscure path. On one hand, football teams have grown in power and recognition while (some) footballers have reached unprecedented heights of fame as they identified and compared to gods, while they are also paid as such. On the other hand,…