H. Leslie Steeves
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor
Communication and Media Studies Program
School of Journalism and Communication
African Studies Program, Affiliated Faculty
University of Oregon
Thursday, April 22, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
“Power, Voice & Influence Through ICTs: Reflections on Digital Inequalities in the Global South”
H. Leslie Steeves’ research addresses overlapping questions concerning ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, gender and communication, and entertainment and tourism representations of Africa. She is author of Gender Violence and the Press: The St. Kizito Story (Ohio University Press, 1997), coauthor of Communication for Development Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice, Third Edition (with Srinivas Raj Melkote, SAGE, 2015), and guest-edited “Africa, Media and Globalization” (Communication, Culture & Critique, 2016), which includes “Cartographies of Communication and Critique.”
Steeves’ work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, including “Feminism in the Post-Development Age” (with Luz Estella Porras, in Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); “ICT4D, Gender Divides, and Development: The Case of Ghana” (with Janet D. Kwami, in Development Communication in Directed Social Change, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, 2012); “Intercultural Dialogue Through Immersive Learning: Media Internships in Ghana, West Africa” (with Ed Madison, in Global Citizenship in a Digital World, Nordicom, 2014); “Place and Role of Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Review of the Field” (with Srinivas Melkote, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2015); “Discovery Channel’s Jungle Gold in Ghana: Hegemonic Globalization Sparks Resistance and Policy Action” (with S. Senyo Ofori-Parku, Media, Culture & Society, 2016); “Interrogating Gender Divides in Technology for Education and Development: The Case of the One Laptop per Child Project in Ghana” (with Janet D. Kwami, Studies in Comparative International Development, 2017); “Social Context in Development Communication: Reflecting on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Ghana” (with Janet D. Kwami, Asia Pacific Media Educator, 2019); and “State Monopoly of Telecommunications in Ethiopia: Revisiting Natural Monopoly in the Era Deregulation” (with Téwodros W. Workneh, in Political Economy of Media Industries, Routledge, 2019). She has also published entries in the The International Encyclopedia of Communication on “Gender, Development, and Communication” and “Spirituality and Development” (2008), as well as directed the 2014 documentary, Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana.
Steeves is the recipient of the UO’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award for promoting cultural diversity and social justice on campus and the International Communication Association’s Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship. She has received two Fulbright Scholar grants for teaching and research in Kenya and Ghana, and she directs an annual study-abroad program in collaboration with the University of Ghana.
Co-Presenter:
Janet D. Kwami, Associate Professor
Communication Studies Department
Affiliated Faculty, Film Studies and Shi Center for Sustainability
Furman University
Introduction by Téwodros Workneh, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Kent State University
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