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Qualifications:
Laurea (University of Trento, Italy), MA (Rhodes), PhD (Rhodes), PGDHE (Rhodes)

Address

Room 105 Africa Media Matrix
Upper Prince Alfred Street
Makhanda/Grahamstown

Postal address

School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
PO Box 94
Grahamstown 6140 

Courses

JMS3: Radical Discourses Online
JMS Honours and Masters: Digital inequalities

JMS Masters: Critical Media Studies
Masters and PhD supervision

Community engagement

Siyakhula Living Lab: an ICT-for-development project in Dwesa, a rural area on the Wild Coast of the former Transkei. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, I contribute with a Social Sciences/ Educational perspective to strategic decisions within the project as well as activities such as Workshops on mobiles as creative tools.

Professional involvement

• International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR): Member  and part of the Disability and Accessibility Committee.
• International Communication Association (ICA): Member and part of the working group Disability Scholars in Media and Communication Research.
• DHET panel for creative outputs (literature category).

Research areas

Digital Inequalities
Mobile communication in marginalised rural areas
Social Media and democratic participation

Research projects

2015-2024: Two National Research Foundation-funded research projects into digital inequalities in marginalised communities.
2015-2017: Principal investigator of “Mediating the territory: mobile phones and hyperlocal services in marginalised communities” (funded by the NRF).
2015-2017: Institutional reference person for the “App factory” international collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy). This initiative was sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry in collaboration with the South African NRF.
2015-2016: Led the South African component of the Advancing MOOCs for Development Initiative (AMDI). This was a multi-country collaboration (South Africa, Colombia and the Philippines) sponsored by IREX and co-ordinated by the Technology and Social Change Group at the University of Washington in Seattle (US).

Research publicationsDalvit, L. (2023). A Critical exploration of YouTube texts by and about people with disabilities in South Africa. Mediascapes journal, 21(1), 344-358.

 

1. Dalvit, L. (2023). “Mobile Communication and Urban/Rural Flows in a South African Marginalised Community”. American Behavioral Scientist, 67(7), 913-925.
2. Dalvit, L. (2023). “Please Do Not Call It Human Right: A Southern Epistemological Perspective on the Digital Inclusion of People With Disabilities in South Africa”. In Communication Rights in Africa (pp. 55-69). Routledge.
3. Dalvit, L. (2022). A decolonial perspective on online media discourses in the context of violence against people with disabilities in South Africa/ Uma Perspetiva Decolonial Sobre Discursos dos Média Online no Contexto da Violência Contra Pessoas com Deficiência na ?frica do Sul. Comunica??o e Sociedade, 41, 169 – 187.
4. Dalvit, L. (2022). “From PowerPoint to Zoom: interrogating gaze in teaching at a small South African University”. In Bolt, D. (Ed) Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions. Routledge Autocritical Disability Studies Series. Routledge.
5. Dalvit, L. (2022). “Differently included: a decolonial perspective on disability and digital media in South Africa”. In Tsatsou, P. (Ed) Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
6. Dalvit, L. (2021). Back to whose “normal”? Personal reflections of a visually-impaired academic at a small South African University. Academic Life in the Pandemic, Special Forum for Communication, Culture & Critique, 14(2), 328 - 331.
7. Buthelezi, M., Chatikobo, T. & Dalvit, l. (2021). United in diversity? Digital differences and inequalities within a South African rural community. Information, Communication & Society, 24(3), 455 - 469.
8. Dalvit, L. (2021). “The voice of the voiceless? decoloniality and online radical discourses in South Africa”. Chapter 14 in Karam, B. and Mutsvairo, B. (Eds.) Decolonising Political Communication in Africa. Routledge.

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