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Article: Rural women's empowerment in a communication technology project: some contradictory effects.
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- Rural Society
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Abstract
This paper presents selected findings from the evaluation of a feminist action research project that aimed to enhance Queensland rural women's access to interactive communication technologies (ICTs). Project activities aimed to be empowering and inclusive. They included online conversation groups, workshops and audioconferences. A model of women's empowerment is used that comprises social, technological, political and psychological forms of empowerment. The evaluation results suggest that many participants experienced each of these forms of empowerment. The online group welink (women's electronic link) was considered particularly important in ...
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