Tourism and urban heritage in Kibera

T Yagi, F Frenzel - Annals of Tourism Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Tourism is not merely a practice in which heritage is consumed. Tourism also produces
heritage. The paper considers the empirical domain of slum tourism, where bottom-up …

Sites of playful engagement: Twitter hashtags as spaces of leisure and development in Kenya

M Tully, B Ekdale - Information Technologies & International …, 2014‏ - itidjournal.org
Through an analysis of popular Kenyan hashtags on Twitter, we argue that everyday leisure
and entertainment practices interact with development and civic engagement in Kenya. This …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers and facilitators to Electronic Medical Record (EMR) use in an urban slum

B Jawhari, L Keenan, D Zakus, D Ludwick… - International journal of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Objective Rapid urbanization has led to the growth of urban slums and increased healthcare
burdens for vulnerable populations. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have the potential …

Remote (dis) engagement: Shifting corporate risk to the 'bottom of the pyramid'

K Roll, C Dolan, D Rajak - Development and Change, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Untapped markets are often deemed institutional voids, terra incognita ripe with economic
possibility. The conversion of institutional voids into viable markets has become the ambition …

“The sweetest songs”—Ethical framing in fundraising through the agency of service users/contributors to tell their own stories

I MacQuillin, J Crombie, R Smyth - Journal of Philanthropy and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Much of the discussion on the ethics of the framing of service users in fundraising and
marketing materials focuses on the ethical dilemma of whether the means of using negative …

Virtual reality and celebrity humanitarianism: Rashida Jones in Lebanon

B Irom - Media, Culture & Society, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The paper brings together two segments of contemporary humanitarian practice–celebrity
advocacy and virtual reality (VR)–in order to more fully comprehend the relationship …

Citizen journalism revisited: A case study of Kenya's kibera news network

M Sobel Cohen, J Mwaura, K McIntyre - Journalism, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In an evolving media landscape, the prominence and influence of citizen journalism has
grown markedly, challenging historical norms and providing alternative narratives. While …

A decolonial moment in science education: Using a socioscientific issue to explore the coloniality of power

L Carter - Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em …, 2017‏ - periodicos.ufmg.br
Decolonialism as a politically engaged endeavour interrogating enduring colonial
knowledge production is essential to any discussion of global injustices including those that …

Ironic encounters: Posthumanitarian storytelling in slum tourist media

B Ekdale, D Tuwei - Communication, Culture & Critique, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
We argue that slum tourist media exemplify a distinct and growing narrative genre about
posthumanitarian travel: ironic encounters. In ironic encounters, Global North tourists …

Modern missionaries: An ethnography of social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial legitimation in the humanitarian field

W De Lima - 2020‏ - diva-portal.org
In nearly six decades of international interventions, the question of how to promote societal
progress in African societies is still the subject of lively debates. The persistence of wars …