ICTs
Volume 26, Issue 2| July 2018
Picture attribution: Abir Abdullah/Oxfam
The digital revolution is transforming how human beings live, work, and relate to each another. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have vast potential to communicate, gain access to information and services, and catalyse collective action for social justice.
But there is also the risk this revolution will fail to challenge stark inequalities in terms of who benefits and whose voice is heard. And technologies can be used by those who seek to challenge rights as well as realise them. In this issue, Gender & Development focuses on ICTs from the perspective of gender justice, and shares feminist experiences of using digital to advance women's rights.
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Below, you can find free access to the Introduction, three articles, and the Resources and Book Reviews sections of the issue.
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Articles
Introduction: Gender, development and ICTs
Amy O'Donnell and Caroline Sweetman
Social media as a gateway for young feminists: lessons from the #IWillGoOUt campaign in India
Divya Titus
How do ICTs mediate gender-based violence in Jamaica?
Dhanaraj Thakur
'Now I want to use it to learn more': using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya
Ronda Zelezny-Green
Youth and ICTs in a 'new' India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women
Shannon Philip
Potential for social media to challenge gender-based violence in India: a quantitative analysis of Twitter use
Tilly A. Gurman, Catherine Nichols and Elyssa S. Greenberg
Using digital technology to engage and mobilise young people to end violence in intimate relationships: lessons from Bolivia
Sandrine Muir-Bouchard
Resources
Here you can find additional materials related to the issue. These are compiled by Liz Cooke
Book Reviews
Edited by Liz Cooke
Gender and Risk Taking: Economics, Evidence and Why the Answer Matters by Julie A. Nelson. Reviewed by Diane Perrons
Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice by Erica Millar. Reviewed by Jane Cottingham
Gender, Conflict, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325 edited by Seema Shekhawat. Reviewed by Sarah Douglas
Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott. Reviewed by Anne Marie Goetz