Nancy Booker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6810932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Booker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Booker |
| SIGNATURE | BOOKER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aga Khan University Nairobi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Putting Forward Sustainability as a Model for Journalism Education and Training
African journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism. Training institutions play a critical role in ensuring that journalists are not only professionally-ready to execute their mandate but also that they can safeguard and promote ethical values in their everyday work. Some of these values include “truth …
The relationship between Nairobi adolescents’ media use and their sexual beliefs and attitudes
Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk for contracting HIV. Although media campaigns have educated the population as a whole, few studies are available about the time sub-Saharan African youth spend listening to and viewing sexual messages via the entertainment and informational media. The goals of this project were: 1) to investigate what programming Nairobi adolescents access; and 2) to investigate the association between frequency of ac…
Couples' communication on sexual and relational issues among the Akamba in Kenya
A large portion of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa occurs among married couples, yet the majority of research on safer-sex communication has focused on communication between couples in casual relationships. This paper explores how committed Kamba couples in Machakos District, Kenya, communicate about sensitive relational issues. The findings from focus group discussions with five groups of males and five groups of females are presented. Th…
Putting Forward Sustainability as a Model for Journalism Education and Training
African journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism. Training institutions play a critical role in ensuring that journalists are not only professionally-ready to execute their mandate but also that they can safeguard and promote ethical values in their everyday work. Some of these values include “truth …
Couples' communication on sexual and relational issues among the Akamba in Kenya
A large portion of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa occurs among married couples, yet the majority of research on safer-sex communication has focused on communication between couples in casual relationships. This paper explores how committed Kamba couples in Machakos District, Kenya, communicate about sensitive relational issues. The findings from focus group discussions with five groups of males and five groups of females are presented. Th…
The relationship between Nairobi adolescents’ media use and their sexual beliefs and attitudes
Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk for contracting HIV. Although media campaigns have educated the population as a whole, few studies are available about the time sub-Saharan African youth spend listening to and viewing sexual messages via the entertainment and informational media. The goals of this project were: 1) to investigate what programming Nairobi adolescents access; and 2) to investigate the association between frequency of ac…
Putting Forward Sustainability as a Model for Journalism Education and Training
African journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism. Training institutions play a critical role in ensuring that journalists are not only professionally-ready to execute their mandate but also that they can safeguard and promote ethical values in their everyday work. Some of these values include “truth …
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (2 works) · Casual (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)