RQ 5: How do media affect gender relations and sexual practices?
Gender
As an aspect of all social practice gender clearly affects, and is affected, by new media technologies and practices. The project shall focus on to what extent and in what ways relationships (as practice) between sexes are affected, as well as how conceptions conceptions change.
RQ5 applies to fieldwork done in Botswana, Zambia and DR Congo only.
Gender issues is important to processes of change and development and has increasingly become part of transformative agendas (i.e World Banks third Millenium Development goals). Here we provide a very brief summary of someapproaches and institutions that has contributed to bringing various aspects of gender issues to these agendas - and point to core institutions in the subSaharan African context that are critically engaged in these debates .