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Gustafsson, J. (2019). Gender and mobile phone usage in Kenyan women’s everyday. In: Caroline Wamala Larsson & Laura Stark (Ed.), Gendered Power and Mobile Technology: Intersections in the Global South (pp. 25-47). Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Gender and mobile phone usage in Kenyan women’s everyday
2019 (English)In: Gendered Power and Mobile Technology: Intersections in the Global South / [ed] Caroline Wamala Larsson & Laura Stark, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, p. 25-47Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In both academic and popular discourses, there has been much talk of a mobile revolution in Kenya. Yet how revolutionary has this been for women? The aim of this chapter is to explore how women’s mobile phone usage is related to the negotiation of gender roles in everyday life and how and in what situations mobile phones can empower women. The data was gathered in Uasin Gishu County, an area which is predominantly rural but also home to the city of Eldoret and its surrounding peri-urban areas. The living situation differs widely for women in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas, which influences women’s appropriation of mobile phones. The chapter is based on 30 semi-structured interviews with Kenyan women and asks: how do Kenyan women in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas use mobile phones? When and how do mobile phones empower Kenyan women?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, ISSN 2689-6680, E-ISSN 2689-6672
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39861 (URN)10.4324/9781315175904-2 (DOI)9781138039391 (ISBN)9781315175904 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-01-14 Created: 2020-01-14 Last updated: 2020-09-01Bibliographically approved
Gustafsson, J., Ngomba, T. J. & Nielsen, P. E. (2019). Introduction: New media and processes of social change in contemporary Africa. Journal of African Media Studies, 11(2), 125-141
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: New media and processes of social change in contemporary Africa
2019 (English)In: Journal of African Media Studies, ISSN 2040-199X, E-ISSN 1751-7974, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 125-141Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Intellect Ltd., 2019
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38911 (URN)10.1386/jams.11.2.125_2 (DOI)000482129400001 ()2-s2.0-85073374721 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-09-06 Created: 2019-09-06 Last updated: 2020-06-30Bibliographically approved
Gustafsson, J. (2019). New media coming to Kapkoi. Journal of African Media Studies, 11(2), 183-204
Open this publication in new window or tab >>New media coming to Kapkoi
2019 (English)In: Journal of African Media Studies, ISSN 2040-199X, E-ISSN 1751-7974, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 183-204Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article, by partly adopting a historical perspective, examines the introduction of new media in a Kenyan rural village, Kapkoi, and how it changes the communication ecology in the village. Further it explores how people in Kapkoi use and ascribe meaning to media. The article argues that categories such as gender, age and financial situation influence people's access to and use of media and demonstrates how media use can simultaneously reinforce and challenge power structures. Moreover, it highlights the clear digital divide between rural areas and urban centres, and yet suggests that the introduction of new media is partly owing to the connection between the urban and the rural and that media and communications technologies sustain and increase the connectedness of the local.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Intellect Ltd., 2019
Keywords
media use, rural Kenya, digital divide, new media, everyday life, communication ecologies
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38912 (URN)10.1386/jams.11.2.183_1 (DOI)000482129400004 ()2-s2.0-85073362418 (Scopus ID)
Note

Funding for the data used in this article and publication of this special issue comes from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). Project number: 219816/F10.

Available from: 2019-09-06 Created: 2019-09-06 Last updated: 2020-06-30Bibliographically approved
Gustafsson, J. (2018). Domestic Connectivity: Media, Gender and the Domestic Sphere in Kenya. Media and Communication, 6(2), 188-198
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Domestic Connectivity: Media, Gender and the Domestic Sphere in Kenya
2018 (English)In: Media and Communication, E-ISSN 2183-2439, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 188-198Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores how increased media access and use influences Kenyan women’s everyday life and alters the domestic space. Based on 30 in-depth interviews with women in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya, the article demonstrates that women have incorporated newly gained media into their daily lives and routines. Increased media access has opened up the home and turned the domestic sphere from a secluded place into a connected space in which women can receive input from,connect with and interact with the world beyond their immediate surroundings whilst simultaneously remaining at homeand fulfilling their traditional gender roles. Women’s media use thus reinforces their connection to the domestic sphereand the gendered division of labour. Although it has the potential to challenge gender inequalities, the extent to which this occurs depends on the individual woman’s ability to act on the imagin aries and ideas that media carry.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cogitatio Press, 2018
Keywords
domestic sphere; gender roles; Kenya; media and everyday life; women’s media use
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35783 (URN)10.17645/mac.v6i2.1295 (DOI)000444278100006 ()2-s2.0-85050477581 (Scopus ID)
Note

This article is part of the issue “Media and Communication between the Local and the Global”, edited by Jessica Gustafsson(Södertörn University, Sweden) and Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius (University of Helsinki, Finland).

Available from: 2018-07-02 Created: 2018-07-02 Last updated: 2021-12-17Bibliographically approved
Gustafsson, J. & Polynczuk-Alenius, K. (2018). Media and Communication between the Local and the Global. Media and Communication, 6(2), 145-148
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Media and Communication between the Local and the Global
2018 (English)In: Media and Communication, E-ISSN 2183-2439, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 145-148Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

This editorial introduces the thematic issue of “Media and Communication between the Local and the Global”. It does so first by presenting the origin of this thematic issue: the Media, Globalization and Social Change division at the NordMedia2017 conference. The thematic issue is then anchored theoretically through discussion of the widely conceived notion of mediation as a technological, symbolic and ethical process―highlighting the interest in how media actors and communication technologies, practices and artefacts mediate between global phenomena and local contexts, which is what unites the contributions to this thematic issue. Last, the final section of this editorial introduces the articles, which coalesce around three broad themes: migration, marginalised communities, and consumption.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cogitatio Press, 2018
Keywords
communication; consumption; global; local; marginalised communities; media; mediation; migration
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35779 (URN)10.17645/mac.v6i2.1637 (DOI)000444278100001 ()2-s2.0-85050492969 (Scopus ID)
Note

This editorial is part of the issue “Media and Communication between the Local and the Global”, edited by Jessica Gustafsson (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Available from: 2018-07-02 Created: 2018-07-02 Last updated: 2020-06-30Bibliographically approved
Projects
Post-migrant voices in the Baltic Sea region (Sweden, Germany, Estonia) [S2-20-0015_OSS]; Södertörn University
Organisations
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ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-2492-3905

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