Artikel
Disrupting patriarchy : an examination of the role of e-technologies in rural Kenia
Verfasst von:
Nyandiko Sanya, Brenda
in:
Feminist Africa
2013
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Heft:
18
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12 - 24 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Nyandiko Sanya, Brenda |
| In: | Feminist Africa |
| Jahr: | 2013 |
| Heft: | 18 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article considers the significant growth of the mobile telephone industry in Kenya and discusses the mobile phone as a potential tool to circulate grassroots (or indigenous) feminisms, cultures and cultural products. In considering the mobile phone and the utility of affiliated applications such as one of Kenya’s mobile banking systems and their impact on social and cultural lives (an impact that may not be an intended or explicit outcome of the innovator’s work) this essay suggests that this important advancement in technology, which surpassed and bypassed other technologies in most communities in Africa, must be examined critically, both in terms of the cultural shifts caused by the explicit and implicit transmission and exchange of information. By democratising access to technology, the mobile phone allows us to question established social assumptions and values regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the assumed social and educational discourses that tend to dominate conversations about information in traditional media and dominant culture. | |
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