Qualifications:
Laurea (University of Trento, Italy), MA (Rhodes), PhD (Rhodes), PGDHE (Rhodes)
Room 105 Africa Media Matrix
Upper Prince Alfred Street
Makhanda/Grahamstown
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
PO Box 94
Grahamstown 6140
JMS3: Radical Discourses Online
JMS Honours and Masters: Digital inequalities
JMS Masters: Critical Media Studies
Masters and PhD supervision
Siyakhula Living Lab: an ICT-for-development project in Dwesa, a rural area on the Wild Coast of the former Transkei. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, I contribute with a Social Sciences/ Educational perspective to strategic decisions within the project as well as activities such as Workshops on mobiles as creative tools.
Digital Inequalities
Mobile communication in marginalised rural areas
Social Media and democratic participation
2015-2024: Two National Research Foundation-funded research projects into digital inequalities in marginalised communities.
2015-2017: Principal investigator of “Mediating the territory: mobile phones and hyperlocal services in marginalised communities” (funded by the NRF).
2015-2017: Institutional reference person for the “App factory” international collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy). This initiative was sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry in collaboration with the South African NRF.
2015-2016: Led the South African component of the Advancing MOOCs for Development Initiative (AMDI). This was a multi-country collaboration (South Africa, Colombia and the Philippines) sponsored by IREX and co-ordinated by the Technology and Social Change Group at the University of Washington in Seattle (US).
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6JBz7bcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao