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Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’

12 January 2015 0

The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development.‘ The book draws on our experiences of doing fieldwork about development and explores both traditional and cutting edge research methods, from interviews and ethnography to… Read More: Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in… »

Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

16 December 2014 0

The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and the primary reason that Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has such a low proportion of locally created content.   However, while the graphic in our previous post (also included above) gives a… Read More: Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African… »