L Lusike Mukhongo
Biographic Data
| ID | 82031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Lusike Mukhongo |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Lusike |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhongo |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHONGO L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3454-3893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Technological affordances, low-power AI, and climate justice among the Ogiek in Kenya’s Mau forest
In regions with unreliable electricity and limited Internet access, low- power AI tools offer scalable solutions for low-bandwidth environments. In Kenya’s Mau Forest, AI-generated SMS messages on low-power feature phones offer possibilities for advancing climate justice for Ogiek Indigenous people. Through interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation, the study examined how low-power AI SMS systems can be integrated with Indigenou…
Making sense of the role of ChatGPT in education: An examination of student views in China, Italy, Kenya, Uruguay, and the U.S
This article investigates the diffusion and adoption of ChatGPT among college students from a multinational convenience sample, informed by the scholarly literature on the diffusion and progressive appropriation of ChatGPT by students and teachers within the education sector and the strategies adopted by academic institutions. We applied a figurational approach to this study, offering two theses that try to understand the societal meaning of Chat…
“Human Activities” and Climate Justice: Reframing Media Narratives on Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Towards Africa
The study delved into media framing of climate change narratives and mitigation efforts towards Africa. The study selected 30 newspaper articles published between June 2021 to December 2021. Content analysis was used to analyze the framing of climate change narratives against a framework of decolonizing media narratives on climate change. It further discussed climate justice and detailed how communities most impacted by climate change are the lea…
Adopting technology-based pedagogies for epistemic justice: Increasing learning outcomes in diverse classrooms
Adopting culturally responsive technology-based pedagogies that recognize and accommodate students' diverse learning needs, styles, and experiences is crucial in challenging epistemic justice and improving learning outcomes. The objective was to explore how integrating an understanding of individual students' distinctive traits into developing technology-based pedagogies informed by students' different ways of knowing can increase learning outcom…
Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa: Complexities, Ambivalences, and Contextual Realities
Introductory statement The rise of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in revolutionary projects across Africa. The impact of these technologies on social movements and activism is complex and multi-faceted. This panel examines the role of technology in shaping African revolutionary projects, such as the use of social media platforms for mobilisation and coordination, and the challenges around issues like manipulation and e…
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate a…
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots
This article examines how women in the Global South are (re)imagining, challenging and reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and meaningful access through inclusive chatbots. While technologies have historically been biased in their design, creation and access, this article argues that technology and gender are mutually constitutive and draws from recent research and related literature intersecting gender, technology, power…
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework
This article discusses media ownership and shifting power dynamics of critical political economy within a digital media framework. It questions the term media ownership and calls for reconceptualisation of the term in an era where media ranges from old media (television, radio, and newspapers), social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok), interactive webpages and blogs to podcasts and streaming services. A case for the a…
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa
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Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
The increase in access to affordable mobile technologies has created an interesting, sometimes complicated, relationship between Internet users and the Kenyan government. On the one hand, the latter is committed to building information and communications technology infrastructure and encouraging technological innovation. On the other, citizens are becoming digitally literate, civically engaged, and more likely to hold the government accountable. …
Friends or foes? A critique of the development of the media and the evolving relationship between press and politics in Kenya
The article focuses on the development of the press in colonial and postcolonial Kenya over the last 100 years. However, it is important to point out that communication systems existed in Africa even before the development of mass media as we know it today. Often, communication scholars, like other social scientists, tended to treat Africa at the onset of colonialism as a tabula rasa (Bourgault 1995: 2), because in early times in African history,…
Can the media in Africa shape Africa's political future
This article seeks to make an assessment of the media's role in shaping the political destiny of Africa as a continent. It looks at how the media responds to political crisis and its role in shaping Africa's political future with emphasis on three main issues: control and censorship of media, political economy of media and ethnicization of national politics in African countries. With reference to control and censorship of media, the focus is on h…
Women's pages’ in Kenya's newspapers: Implications for the country's development
Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women's issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women's pages’ slotted into the main newspapers. The supplements are filled with stereotyped roles of domesticity, beauty, and fantasy, thus denying w…
Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
The increase in access to affordable mobile technologies has created an interesting, sometimes complicated, relationship between Internet users and the Kenyan government. On the one hand, the latter is committed to building information and communications technology infrastructure and encouraging technological innovation. On the other, citizens are becoming digitally literate, civically engaged, and more likely to hold the government accountable. …
Women's pages’ in Kenya's newspapers: Implications for the country's development
Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women's issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women's pages’ slotted into the main newspapers. The supplements are filled with stereotyped roles of domesticity, beauty, and fantasy, thus denying w…
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework
This article discusses media ownership and shifting power dynamics of critical political economy within a digital media framework. It questions the term media ownership and calls for reconceptualisation of the term in an era where media ranges from old media (television, radio, and newspapers), social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok), interactive webpages and blogs to podcasts and streaming services. A case for the a…
Can the media in Africa shape Africa's political future
This article seeks to make an assessment of the media's role in shaping the political destiny of Africa as a continent. It looks at how the media responds to political crisis and its role in shaping Africa's political future with emphasis on three main issues: control and censorship of media, political economy of media and ethnicization of national politics in African countries. With reference to control and censorship of media, the focus is on h…
Women's pages’ in Kenya's newspapers: Implications for the country's development
Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women's issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women's pages’ slotted into the main newspapers. The supplements are filled with stereotyped roles of domesticity, beauty, and fantasy, thus denying w…
Can the media in Africa shape Africa's political future
This article seeks to make an assessment of the media's role in shaping the political destiny of Africa as a continent. It looks at how the media responds to political crisis and its role in shaping Africa's political future with emphasis on three main issues: control and censorship of media, political economy of media and ethnicization of national politics in African countries. With reference to control and censorship of media, the focus is on h…
Friends or foes? A critique of the development of the media and the evolving relationship between press and politics in Kenya
The article focuses on the development of the press in colonial and postcolonial Kenya over the last 100 years. However, it is important to point out that communication systems existed in Africa even before the development of mass media as we know it today. Often, communication scholars, like other social scientists, tended to treat Africa at the onset of colonialism as a tabula rasa (Bourgault 1995: 2), because in early times in African history,…
Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya
The increase in access to affordable mobile technologies has created an interesting, sometimes complicated, relationship between Internet users and the Kenyan government. On the one hand, the latter is committed to building information and communications technology infrastructure and encouraging technological innovation. On the other, citizens are becoming digitally literate, civically engaged, and more likely to hold the government accountable. …
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa
Preview this article: Technology, language and media sociality in Africa, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jams/14/3/jams.14.3.345_Mukhongo-1.gif
Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa: Complexities, Ambivalences, and Contextual Realities
Introductory statement The rise of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in revolutionary projects across Africa. The impact of these technologies on social movements and activism is complex and multi-faceted. This panel examines the role of technology in shaping African revolutionary projects, such as the use of social media platforms for mobilisation and coordination, and the challenges around issues like manipulation and e…
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate a…
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots
This article examines how women in the Global South are (re)imagining, challenging and reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and meaningful access through inclusive chatbots. While technologies have historically been biased in their design, creation and access, this article argues that technology and gender are mutually constitutive and draws from recent research and related literature intersecting gender, technology, power…
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework
This article discusses media ownership and shifting power dynamics of critical political economy within a digital media framework. It questions the term media ownership and calls for reconceptualisation of the term in an era where media ranges from old media (television, radio, and newspapers), social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok), interactive webpages and blogs to podcasts and streaming services. A case for the a…
“Human Activities” and Climate Justice: Reframing Media Narratives on Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Towards Africa
The study delved into media framing of climate change narratives and mitigation efforts towards Africa. The study selected 30 newspaper articles published between June 2021 to December 2021. Content analysis was used to analyze the framing of climate change narratives against a framework of decolonizing media narratives on climate change. It further discussed climate justice and detailed how communities most impacted by climate change are the lea…
Adopting technology-based pedagogies for epistemic justice: Increasing learning outcomes in diverse classrooms
Adopting culturally responsive technology-based pedagogies that recognize and accommodate students' diverse learning needs, styles, and experiences is crucial in challenging epistemic justice and improving learning outcomes. The objective was to explore how integrating an understanding of individual students' distinctive traits into developing technology-based pedagogies informed by students' different ways of knowing can increase learning outcom…
Making sense of the role of ChatGPT in education: An examination of student views in China, Italy, Kenya, Uruguay, and the U.S
This article investigates the diffusion and adoption of ChatGPT among college students from a multinational convenience sample, informed by the scholarly literature on the diffusion and progressive appropriation of ChatGPT by students and teachers within the education sector and the strategies adopted by academic institutions. We applied a figurational approach to this study, offering two theses that try to understand the societal meaning of Chat…
Technological affordances, low-power AI, and climate justice among the Ogiek in Kenya’s Mau forest
In regions with unreliable electricity and limited Internet access, low- power AI tools offer scalable solutions for low-bandwidth environments. In Kenya’s Mau Forest, AI-generated SMS messages on low-power feature phones offer possibilities for advancing climate justice for Ogiek Indigenous people. Through interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation, the study examined how low-power AI SMS systems can be integrated with Indigenou…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Kenya (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)