Emma Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1521-3116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enacting Radio
Scholars of media and empire have productively examined the connections between radio, identification, and the politics of scale. This article shifts attention to the socio-technical work of scale-making enacted through broadcasting infrastructures themselves. A close examination of these technopolitical battles from the 1920s through the 1940s in East Africa—involving metropolitan administrators, regionalists, the British Broadcasting Corporatio…
Integrated People-Centred Care in Canada – Policies, Standards, and Implementation Tools to Improve Outcomes
Implementing integration strategies requires that we create and sustain a culture of continuous improvement and learning. Key lessons from the development process focused on the importance of co-design, embedding people-centred practices throughout the standard, formal yet iterative methodology inclusive of broad consultation, clear accountability for both policy makers and system partners, tools that support action and can be adapted to local co…
Knowledge/Seizure
This article examines the growth in mobile phone‐based lending in Kenya, where millions now borrow from services that translate digital data into credit scores. Reeling from ongoing retrenchment and marketisation, many find themselves turning to expensive, short‐term credit to “buy time”. We depart from actuarial approaches to the digital economy that foreground the technical analysis of data in order to emphasise the importance of racialised exp…
Algorithmic Intimacy
English Abstract: Kenya is a frontier market for 'financial technology', or FinTech. This industry - which merges mobile telephony and digital data with commercial lending - has grown spectacularly, with millions of Kenyans borrowing for household, emergency, and commercial expenses. This industry's frenzied growth has been fuelled by not merely the pursuit of profit, but also a decidedly more developmental aspiration, namely 'financial inclusion…
Intimacy and Estrangement
This article explores the incremental privatization of what is today East Africa's largest corporation, communications and finance firm Safaricom. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, British multinational Vodafone became a partial shareholder of Safaricom, with the government of Kenya retaining the majority stake in the company. This was followed by the company going “public” in 2008 through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In exploring these tra…
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity
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Human ATMs
This article explores the austere labour regime of Safaricom - Kenya's largest telecommunications firm and financial services provider - from the perspective of the women and men who work as 'human ATMs' for Safaricom's breakout service, M-Pesa. Far from women and men simply acting as ATMs, I argue that the affective and social labour of these people working at sites across the country constitutes a form of maintenance work that, while essentiall…
Knowledge/Seizure
This article examines the growth in mobile phone‐based lending in Kenya, where millions now borrow from services that translate digital data into credit scores. Reeling from ongoing retrenchment and marketisation, many find themselves turning to expensive, short‐term credit to “buy time”. We depart from actuarial approaches to the digital economy that foreground the technical analysis of data in order to emphasise the importance of racialised exp…
Algorithmic Intimacy
English Abstract: Kenya is a frontier market for 'financial technology', or FinTech. This industry - which merges mobile telephony and digital data with commercial lending - has grown spectacularly, with millions of Kenyans borrowing for household, emergency, and commercial expenses. This industry's frenzied growth has been fuelled by not merely the pursuit of profit, but also a decidedly more developmental aspiration, namely 'financial inclusion…
Human ATMs
This article explores the austere labour regime of Safaricom - Kenya's largest telecommunications firm and financial services provider - from the perspective of the women and men who work as 'human ATMs' for Safaricom's breakout service, M-Pesa. Far from women and men simply acting as ATMs, I argue that the affective and social labour of these people working at sites across the country constitutes a form of maintenance work that, while essentiall…
Integrated People-Centred Care in Canada – Policies, Standards, and Implementation Tools to Improve Outcomes
Implementing integration strategies requires that we create and sustain a culture of continuous improvement and learning. Key lessons from the development process focused on the importance of co-design, embedding people-centred practices throughout the standard, formal yet iterative methodology inclusive of broad consultation, clear accountability for both policy makers and system partners, tools that support action and can be adapted to local co…
Intimacy and Estrangement
This article explores the incremental privatization of what is today East Africa's largest corporation, communications and finance firm Safaricom. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, British multinational Vodafone became a partial shareholder of Safaricom, with the government of Kenya retaining the majority stake in the company. This was followed by the company going “public” in 2008 through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In exploring these tra…
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Human ATMs
This article explores the austere labour regime of Safaricom - Kenya's largest telecommunications firm and financial services provider - from the perspective of the women and men who work as 'human ATMs' for Safaricom's breakout service, M-Pesa. Far from women and men simply acting as ATMs, I argue that the affective and social labour of these people working at sites across the country constitutes a form of maintenance work that, while essentiall…
Intimacy and Estrangement
This article explores the incremental privatization of what is today East Africa's largest corporation, communications and finance firm Safaricom. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, British multinational Vodafone became a partial shareholder of Safaricom, with the government of Kenya retaining the majority stake in the company. This was followed by the company going “public” in 2008 through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In exploring these tra…
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Integrated People-Centred Care in Canada – Policies, Standards, and Implementation Tools to Improve Outcomes
Implementing integration strategies requires that we create and sustain a culture of continuous improvement and learning. Key lessons from the development process focused on the importance of co-design, embedding people-centred practices throughout the standard, formal yet iterative methodology inclusive of broad consultation, clear accountability for both policy makers and system partners, tools that support action and can be adapted to local co…
Knowledge/Seizure
This article examines the growth in mobile phone‐based lending in Kenya, where millions now borrow from services that translate digital data into credit scores. Reeling from ongoing retrenchment and marketisation, many find themselves turning to expensive, short‐term credit to “buy time”. We depart from actuarial approaches to the digital economy that foreground the technical analysis of data in order to emphasise the importance of racialised exp…
Algorithmic Intimacy
English Abstract: Kenya is a frontier market for 'financial technology', or FinTech. This industry - which merges mobile telephony and digital data with commercial lending - has grown spectacularly, with millions of Kenyans borrowing for household, emergency, and commercial expenses. This industry's frenzied growth has been fuelled by not merely the pursuit of profit, but also a decidedly more developmental aspiration, namely 'financial inclusion…
Enacting Radio
Scholars of media and empire have productively examined the connections between radio, identification, and the politics of scale. This article shifts attention to the socio-technical work of scale-making enacted through broadcasting infrastructures themselves. A close examination of these technopolitical battles from the 1920s through the 1940s in East Africa—involving metropolitan administrators, regionalists, the British Broadcasting Corporatio…
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