Exploring new media technologies among young South African women

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dc.contributor.authorLewis, Desiree
dc.contributor.authorTigist, Shewarega Hussen
dc.contributor.authorvan Vuuren, Monique
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-12T09:19:38Z
dc.date.available2015-02-12T09:19:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis article reflects on how the use of digitised communication and social media among young black South African women can be situated and assessed within the current context. The authors focus especially on nuanced explorations of �civic participation,� �empowerment� and �identity politics� in acknowledging the liberatory potential of young women�s use of information and communication technology (ICTs) and seeking to assess its effects in realistic ways. We therefore speculate about how the uses of ICTs can both open up new possibilities for activism and agency and reveal the difficult formation of what Nancy Fraser has called �subaltern counterpublics� (1992: 109�142) among socially marginalised young women.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US
dc.identifier.citationLewis, D., et al. (2013). Exploring new media technologies among young South African women. Feminist Africa, 18: 43-63en_US
dc.identifier.issn1726-4596
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/1343
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherAfrican Gender Institute, University of Cape Townen_US
dc.rightsThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectCivic engagementen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleExploring new media technologies among young South African womenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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