Research and Theses
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The research database consists of research and theses, from academics, students, activists and international organisations on the issues of gender and media diversity. Research is key to successful knowledge creation.
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Whose news, whose views? Tabloids do little to bridge the gender gap
01 January 07
Regional relevance: Mauritius, South Africa, Southern Africa (SADC), Tanzania
Experiences of Graduation or termination from a girls Youth Community Project
01 December 06
Regional relevance: South Africa
The study attempted to gain insight into the behavioural response to termination/ graduation of a group of ten female graduates from a community intervention programme. The participants, aged between eleven and fourteen years and predominantly from low socio-economic backgrounds, attended the Usiko Girls Youth... [read more]
Media and cyber-democracy in Africa: an introduction
01 September 06
Compendium of Innovative E-government Practices
01 August 06
This document, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations (UN), is a compilation of electronic (e)-government information and communication technology (ICT) strategies and applications from all geographical regions of the world. DESA’s goal in collecting the data and publishing... [read more]
Diversity Works
01 May 06
Regional relevance: Botswana
Diversity has become the name of the game in Botswana’s print media. Newspapers have changed in design, employing big colourful headlines and photographs and significantly, many have begun to mainstream gender into their content. From my personal perspective, more newspapers are shifting from the narrow focus on... [read more]
Measuring Democratic Governance: a Framework for Selecting Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Indicators
01 May 06
Defending Women, Defending Rights. Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women’s Human Rights Defenders
01 February 06
"Justice for Lorna Mlofana": The Treatment Action Campaign's AIDS and Gender Activism
01 January 06
Like many others in South Africa and across the world, we have been inspired by the work of the Treatment Action Campaign, whose approaches have greatly influenced the tactics, theoretical frameworks, and philosophical underpinnings of our own work as AIDS and gender activists. In particular, we have been struck by... [read more]
