Smart Phones and Social Bonds
Communication Technology and Inter-Ethnic Cooperation in Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13047809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Martin-Shields (0000-0002-1039-5208, George Mason University, corresponding author), Elizabeth Stones (UCL Biomedical Research Centre) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 50-64 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-7440 • E-ISSN: 1542-3166 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15423166.2014.983030 |
| OpenAlex | W2045115292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The expansion of access to mobile phones in the developing world has provided new opportunities for development and peacebuilding institutions to reach communities, and for communities to develop local development and peacebuilding solutions. Kenya has seen a particularly high concentration of programming geared towards using mobile phones for banking, election monitoring and violence prevention, using crowdsourcing methods to collect and share information. While there have been a number of notable crowdsourcing programmes that have been successful at preventing violence, there remains limited theorisation in the peacebuilding community about why these successes occurred. Using Fearon and Laitin's (American Political Science Review 90 [1996]: 715–795) models of inter-ethnic cooperation, intra-group organising and inter-group policing, we explore whether success in crowdsourcing for violence prevention is a function of direct intra-community organising, or is an outcome of previously unavailable information being broadcast on traditional media such as radio
Business · Crowdsourcing · Ethnic group · Function (biology · Information and Communications Technology · Peacebuilding · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Refugee · Social media · Sociology · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Public Administration · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics
Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence
Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya
Bowling alone
Dying to win
Containing Fear
Technology and Collective Action
Ethnic groups in conflict
Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society
Kenya
Learning to Cooperate
Rumor Dynamics in Ethnic Violence
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
Kenya after Moi
The Political Economy of Kenya's Crisis
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |