CPUT Research Day Showcase
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Presentation for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Research Day Showcase this Friday, 4 December. With communities experiencing tension through various social ills its facing, research and innovation can be used to bring about social change. Universities have an opportunity to partner with community organisations and [...]

With more non-profits, corporate, government and other organisations making use of the web to mobilise communities we’ve decided to share some of our research presented at the World Wide Web Conference this year. Online campaigning is a quiet new area in marketing and mass media communication research. It is as new as the World Wild [...]

Athlone is situated on the Cape Flats of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, which is plagued with violence, drugs and gansterism. The society is described by Parker (2008) as a community in tension. The Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) project includes a community based non-governmental organisation Impact Direct Ministries (IDM). IDM opted [...]

As I am getting ready to attend the World Wide Web Conference in Port Elizabeth this week I was reminded of a paper we presented at the same conference in Cape Town last year titled “Blogging as a change agent to empower citizens in communities with tension“. Below is a short abstract from the paper: [...]