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Does who we are count? A study of the role that a community’s culture...
Deffor, Sally : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2011)	1-year master STUDENT ESSAY

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Heritage tourism has taken deep roots over the last decade with several destination management areas effectively carving a niche for themselves as places that offer products that help people to relive history. For Ghana, with its various forts and castles spread along its coastline; inhabitants of such communities have taken it for granted that tourists visit. Emerging research has shown that when an area is able to package its heritage artifacts and monuments in an integrated m...

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Documentary Photography as a Tool of Social Change: reading a shiftin...
Nesbitt Hills, Christine : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2011)	1-year master STUDENT ESSAY

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Gideon Mendel’s ongoing photographic work documenting HIV/ AIDS, first started in 1993, has seen shifts not only in production but also in the author’s representation of his subjects. This paper looks at three texts of Mendel’s work, taken from three different stages of Mendel’s career and reads the shifting paradigm taking Mendel from photojournalist to activist armed with documentary photography as a tool of social change. This thesis explores how different positionings as an a...

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Mobile phones as tools for social change. A case study of mobile phon...
Rodrigo, Adela : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2011)	1-year master STUDENT ESSAY

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Access, use and ownership of mobile phones is increasing rapidly in Tanzania, as in the rest of Africa. It is estimated that a staggering 97% of the population are able to access a mobile phone, according to a study carried out by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Vodafone. The growing number of people using mobile phones has led to optimism and speculation regarding its effect on economic and social development. Expectations from mobile phones are high and it has alrea...

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Conservation 2.0: Leveraging social media for fundraising in Kenya – ...
Mwambui, Elizabeth : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2010)	2-year master STUDENT ESSAY

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Social media - Blogs, social networks (Facebook), micro-blogging (Twitter), You Tube, Flickr, Maps, and Mashups (combinations) - has changed the way we work and communicate. Social media are experiencing explosive growth rates and new prominence, not only in the lives of individuals but as tools in democratic processes and social change (Clark 2009, Gilmor 2004). Social media have been used for democratic campaigns in the US (Obama ), reporting natural disasters (Haiti , Tsunami...

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Film for Change, Communication Rights and Social Change in Tanzania
Sonderstrup, Soren : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2011)	2-year master STUDENT ESSAY

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The thesis presents a view of film for change set against the manifold approaches, practices or ideologies influencing it, and analysis it as a tool for the self-representation, self-determination and mediation of marginalised people in the face of globalization and the democratization of communication. It seeks to find an answer to the question of how film for change works as a method to empower the disadvantaged inhabitants of three villages in Tanzania, where fieldwork was car...

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