[liberationtech] Fwd: Internews: In Study of Social Media in Afghanistan, Women Report Mixed Feelings

[Steven Clift]

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Steven Clift" 
Date: Jan 9, 2018 6:12 PM
Subject: Internews: In Study of Social Media in Afghanistan, Women Report
Mixed Feelings
To: "newswire" , 
Cc:

See:
https://t.e2ma.net/click/wjva7/s0xgd1/wrpjkk


From: "Internews" 
Date: Jan 9, 2018 12:06 PM
Subject: In Study of Social Media in Afghanistan, Women Report Mixed
Feelings
To: 
Cc:

New report on digital engagement and expression in Afghanistan
[image: New report on digital engagement and expression in Afghanistan]
[image: Internews - Stories: In Study of Social Media in Afghanistan, Women
Report Mixed Feelings] 
A new report on digital engagement and expression details the issues of
rights and harassment online, particularly for women
Social media is still in its infancy in Afghanistan, with a small and
mostly homogenous user base of educated, relatively wealthy, predominately
male users. But while small, it holds opportunity for engagement and
expression.
For example, a group of young women, using the hashtag #*whereismyname*,
started a public debate on the custom of not using women's names on
invitations, in the market and even on burial tombs and only referring to
them as a wife or daughter of a man. This discussion could not have taken
place without the platform offered by social media.
Beyond gender dynamics, *Social Media in Afghanistan: Users and Engagement
* examines the development
and influence of social media on open expression and social change in
Afghan society.

READ MORE 


[image: Facebook]  [image:
Instagram]  [image: Twitter]


Banner image:Young women in Afghanistan have limited access to social
media. Credit: Internews
Internews is an international non-profit organization (501c3) whose mission
is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information
they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
We respect your desire for privacy and will not make your email address
available to third parties.
*Share this email:*




*Manage*

your preferences | *Opt out*

using *TrueRemove*™
Got this as a forward? *Sign up*
 to
receive our future emails.
View this email *online* .
PO Box 4448, Arcata, CA 95518, USA | Suite B2, 43 – 51 New North Road
London, | N1 6LU GB <#m_1435499627252151081_m_2268101538308437479_>
This email was sent to cl...@publicus.net.
*To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.*


[image: powered by emma] 
-- 
Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of 
list guidelines will get you moderated: 
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, 
change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at 
zakwh...@stanford.edu.

Re: [liberationtech] Please help my 87-year-old grandmother...

[Yosem Companys]

Thanks for your support and concern, Terry. My grandmother is now under the
care of a cardiologist. When she arrived at home for 2018, light had been
restored. So things are looking up, even though she still needs to get her
locks fixed before someone breaks in again. My mother is working on that by
and large thanks to the support of this list.

Best,
Yosem

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Terry Winograd 
wrote:

> Yosem, how is she doing?
> --t
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Yosem Companys 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season with your friends and
>> family, and I wish you a Happy New Year.
>>
>> My 87-year-old grandmother collapsed on Christmas Day and was
>> hospitalized. After all that she has been through this year in Puerto Rico
>> with Hurricane Maria, I'm trying to help her.
>>
>> Could you please make a donation, no matter how small?
>>
>> https://www.youcaring.com/theresapedreira-1052331
>>
>> I truly appreciate your generosity.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yosem
>>
>>
>> --
>> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations
>> of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/m
>> ailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change
>> password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
>>
>
>
> --
> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations
> of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/
> mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change
> password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
>
-- 
Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of 
list guidelines will get you moderated: 
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, 
change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at 
zakwh...@stanford.edu.

[liberationtech] Blockchain for International Development Online Course - Last Chance

[Nick Martin]

Liberation Tech community,

Happy 2018!

We're putting the final touches on our blockchain for international
development course and we still have a few spots left. Its a four-week
certificate course, delivered entirely online and it kicks off Jan 22nd.
Use "libtech345" to get a discount on course price.

Read full description and sign up here:
https://course.tc/catalog/course/5b5f9e57-b013-4a6d-b696-3bce63b7f8be

If you have any last minute suggestions for great content - what and who
should we be including, both critical and optimistic perspectives - we're
eager to hear from you!

Cheers,
Nick

***


Nick Martin

Founder & CEO, TechChange

M 240 505 2324 | www.techchange.org | @ncmart


  



Check out our new learning platform here
!
-- 
Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of 
list guidelines will get you moderated: 
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, 
change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at 
zakwh...@stanford.edu.

[liberationtech] Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age.

[Christian Fuchs]

Now (finally) available as paperback: Reconsidering Value and Labour in 
the Digital Age, ed. Eran Fisher & Christian Fuchs.


http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137478566

http://fuchs.uti.at/books/reconsidering-value-and-labour-in-the-digital-age/

How do labour and value-production change in the age of Facebook, 
YouTube and Twitter?


The labour theory of value is one of the core tenets of Marx’s theory of 
historical materialism, and of his understanding of capitalism. It is 
the theory that connects value to class structure, and that unveils the 
exploitative social relations that lay behind prices of commodities.



This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour 
theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that 
contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, 
proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of 
digital and social media, and employ the theory in order to shed light 
on specific practices.


With contributions by Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval, Arwid Lund, 
Bingqing Xia, Brice Nixon, Eran Fisher, Yuqi Na, Thomas Allmer, 
Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Prodnik, Olivier Frayssé, Jakob Rigi, Kylie 
Jarrett, Andrea Fumagalli, Frederick H. Pitts


--
Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of 
list guidelines will get you moderated: 
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change 
to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.