Karabo Sitto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4280135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karabo Sitto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karabo |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitto |
| SIGNATURE | SITTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5146-9189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of information on key social issues, carrying and reproducing the social representations of a society. South African townships have been reported as a hotbed of anti-migrant unrest, with the growing reliance on the communities’ lens through their social media representations shared online often considered …
“My Birth Control Makes Me Emotionally Psycho”
Digital communication tools have become increasingly pivotal to facilitating the engagement and management of difficult health-related conversations. Peer conversations about individual women's experiences relating to the side effects of contraceptive use are not often held outside of medical contexts. To provoke conversations about birth control, on 9 January 2018, the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC) tweeted the results of a stu…
Health disparities and the digital divide within South African disadvantaged communities during the Covid-19 pandemic
The purpose of this article is to highlight how technologies, which have for centuries revolutionalized healthcare, have conversely increased health disparities among disadvantaged communities in South Africa during coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A hard lockdown imposed on the country in March 2020, as an initial measure of containment of the novel virus, became unfeasible due to detrimental, mostly economic effects on the economy. From 1 May, t…
The power of narrative health communication
Narrative health communication has the potential for effective health promotion about cancer amongst youth from low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa experiences a rising cancer-related disease burden with predicted increase of over 85% by 2030. Whilst promotion through communication, of cancer prevention strategies targeting 18-29 year olds remains scanty, it is crucial for cancer prevention behaviour before t…
Hidden figures
On 26 July 2013, the United Nations launched the Free & Equal campaign in Cape Town, South Africa, to mark the global commitment to end gender discrimination. This event can be positioned in the “fourth wave of feminism” referred to by certain leading feminist scholars (for example Gouws 2010). However, while multiple disciplinary discourses herald the progress with regards to women’s liberation, notably pertaining to gender identities, they illu…
Health disparities and the digital divide within South African disadvantaged communities during the Covid-19 pandemic
The purpose of this article is to highlight how technologies, which have for centuries revolutionalized healthcare, have conversely increased health disparities among disadvantaged communities in South Africa during coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A hard lockdown imposed on the country in March 2020, as an initial measure of containment of the novel virus, became unfeasible due to detrimental, mostly economic effects on the economy. From 1 May, t…
Hidden figures
On 26 July 2013, the United Nations launched the Free & Equal campaign in Cape Town, South Africa, to mark the global commitment to end gender discrimination. This event can be positioned in the “fourth wave of feminism” referred to by certain leading feminist scholars (for example Gouws 2010). However, while multiple disciplinary discourses herald the progress with regards to women’s liberation, notably pertaining to gender identities, they illu…
“My Birth Control Makes Me Emotionally Psycho”
Digital communication tools have become increasingly pivotal to facilitating the engagement and management of difficult health-related conversations. Peer conversations about individual women's experiences relating to the side effects of contraceptive use are not often held outside of medical contexts. To provoke conversations about birth control, on 9 January 2018, the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC) tweeted the results of a stu…
Health disparities and the digital divide within South African disadvantaged communities during the Covid-19 pandemic
The purpose of this article is to highlight how technologies, which have for centuries revolutionalized healthcare, have conversely increased health disparities among disadvantaged communities in South Africa during coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A hard lockdown imposed on the country in March 2020, as an initial measure of containment of the novel virus, became unfeasible due to detrimental, mostly economic effects on the economy. From 1 May, t…
The power of narrative health communication
Narrative health communication has the potential for effective health promotion about cancer amongst youth from low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa experiences a rising cancer-related disease burden with predicted increase of over 85% by 2030. Whilst promotion through communication, of cancer prevention strategies targeting 18-29 year olds remains scanty, it is crucial for cancer prevention behaviour before t…
Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of information on key social issues, carrying and reproducing the social representations of a society. South African townships have been reported as a hotbed of anti-migrant unrest, with the growing reliance on the communities’ lens through their social media representations shared online often considered …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)