Article ID: CBB001450262

Theater, Gender, and Development: Merging Traditional and New Media to Address Communication Challenges in Uganda (2014)

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Underdeveloped communication infrastructures have encouraged innovative forms of accessing and using information technology. For some rural farmers in Uganda, a merging of traditional media such as theatrical performances with information technology has brought information to otherwise unconnected areas. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork among farmers in Uganda, this article analyzes the intersection where traditional and new media merge. The results show that despite the inclusiveness of this approach, combining theatrical performances with information technology can have both empowering and disempowering effects.

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Authors & Contributors
Tappan, Jennifer
Brownell, Emily
Feierman, Steven
Janssen, Katherine M.
Karp, Alexander
Schubring, Gert
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Technology and Culture
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ohio University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Communication technology
Infrastructure
Science and technology studies (STS)
Public health
Postcolonialism
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Uganda
Africa
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Kenya
Latin America
Zambia
Institutions
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
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