RE-ACT

Social REpresentations of Community Multimedia Centres and ACTions for Improvement

RE-ACT will investigate conceptualizations of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique

using the Social Representation construct

RE-ACT will investigate conceptualizations of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique

using the Social Representation construct

Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs):

Community Multimedia Centres

Telecentres combining community radio,

managed by locals broadcasting in local languages,

with community telecentre facilities

Community Multimedia Centres

...are Community Development Instruments

...provide communication services relevant for the Local Community

...use both digital and non-digital information and communication technologies and offer services related to them

Telecentres

RE-ACT will investigate conceptualizations of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique

using the Social Representation construct

Social Representation

A Social Representation is a system

(Moscovici 1973)

values

ideas practices

Social Representation

A Social Representation has 2 functions:

Social Representation

1 to establish how people

interpret their world

A Social Representation has 2 functions:

Social Representation

1 to establish how people

interpret their world

2 to enable people to

communicate with the other

members of the community

A Social Representation has 2 functions:

Representatives of initiating agencies

Representatives of associations owning CMCs

Local staff

Users

Non-users

Social Representation

Actions for Improvement

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Actions for Improvement

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2 Senior researchers

1 PhD student

1 Master student

Partners

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

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