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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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Baseline Report on Women's Rights Online Issues in Ghana
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 31 pp.
"The study found that among women, access to and use of the internet is highly dependent on the type of mobile device used and on level of education. Connecting with friends and family, entertainment and education emerged as the main reasons why the female respondents used the internet. Unreliable y
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"Afghanistan has made great strides in establishing media and communications outlets. However, very little is known about the ways in which Afghans actually engage in information exchange. To inform work with the media and effectively enhance access to information in Afghanistan, Internews commissio
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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.
"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across
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Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxv, 277 pp.
"Maestri and Profanter highlight that the methodological approaches adopted in this volume are both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Focusing on the changing relationship between the dynamics of Arab communication spaces and the role of Arab women both in and through the media, the introduct
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Feminist Cyberethics in Asia: Religious Discourses on Human Connectivity
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 227 pp.
Indonesian Women’s Blog Formats from Tanah Betawi to Serambi Mekah: Women Blogger’s Choices of Technical Features
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 407-424
"Drawing on the critiques of the active/passive dichotomy and using an ethnographic approach, this article looks at the forms of Indonesian women’s engagement in a convergent media world through blogging. We examine the technical, personalized authoring tools Indonesian women use in their blogging
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More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights
Geneva: Globethics.net (2014), 158 pp.
Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389
"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific
London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.
Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in the Arab Uprisings
Houston, Tex.: Rice University, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (2012), 44 pp.
"This is the first scholarly analysis of how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath. It argues that women's engagement with social media has coincided with a shift in the political landscape of the Middle East, and it is unlikely that th
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Women and the Web: Bridging the Internet Gap and Creating New Global Opportunities in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Santa Clara, Calif.; New York: Intel; Dalberg Global Development Advisors (2012), 100 pp.
"This report [is] the first compilation of the global data on how women in developing countries access and use the Internet. I am convinced this report provides key insights for policy makers, the development community and industry. Based on interviews and surveys of 2,200 women in developing countr
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