Carol Azungi Dralega

Professor journalistikk, medier og kommunikasjon

NLA University College Gimlekollen

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Research and publications: Update publications <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. (Eds.) (Forthcoming 2022) Health Crises and media discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer Nature. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Health-Crises-Discourses-Sub-Saharan-Africa/dp/3030950999/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1649462089&refinements=p_27%3ACarol+Azungi+Dralega&s=books&sr=1-3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">https://www.amazon.com/Health-Crises-Discourses-Sub-Saharan-Africa/dp/3030950999/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1649462089&refinements=p_27%3ACarol+Azungi+Dralega&s=books&sr=1-3</a>   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2022) Media viability, Covid 19 and the ‘Darwinian’ experience in Southern Africa: Glimpses from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. (Eds.) (Forthcoming 2022) Health Crises and media discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer Nature   Napakol, A. and Dralega, C.A. (2022) Framing the AIDS discourse: A critic of journalistic Source norms in Uganda’s HIV and AIDS print news.  In <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. (Eds.) (Forthcoming 2022) Health Crises and media discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer Nature   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Covid-19-Media-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Communication-ebook/dp/B09X5KJCQG/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1649462089&refinements=p_27%3ACarol+Azungi+Dralega&s=books&sr=1-1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">https://www.amazon.com/Covid-19-Media-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Communication-ebook/dp/B09X5KJCQG/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1649462089&refinements=p_27%3ACarol+Azungi+Dralega&s=books&sr=1-1</a>   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. Jjuuko, M. Solomon, E. (2022) Caught between a rock and a hard place: COVID-19 impact on feminist media in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. In Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Jemaneh, A. and Dralega, C. A. (2022) COVID 19 impact on the Ethiopian Newspaper IndustryIn Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Napakol, A., Kitego, E. and Dralega, C. A. (2022) (Mis)information, Sources and Credibility: Targeting Youth in Public Health Communication on COVID-19 in Uganda. In Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   Amia, P., Dralega, C. A., Santige, K. B., Kidanu, G. B., Mpala, D. K. and W. K. (2022) In <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A., Katuwal, Y. B. and Mainsah, H. (2022) COVID-19 Lock-down, Information Access and Use among African Diaspora in Norway. In In Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Corneliussen, H.G., Seddighi, G. and Dralega, C. A. (2022) <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">The Discourse of Rurality in Women’s Professional-life Narratives: Gender and ICT in Rural Norway. In Griffin, G. (Forthcoming 2022) Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation: Living the Contradiction. Bristol University Press.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2016) Media, capacity building and gender parity: Why we shouldn’t look away. Journal of African Media Studies, Intellect ltd. 8.3. p247-249.   Dralega, C.A., Corneliussen G, C. & Seddighi, G. (<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">2019) Women's Experience of Role Models in IT: Landmark women, substitutes, and supporters. Modeller. Fjordantologien 2019. Universitetforlaget. Oslo.   Dralega, C. A. og Corneliussen, H. G. (2018) manifestations and contestations of Hegemony in video gaming by immigrant youth in Norway. In Media and Power in International contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity studies in Media and communications, Volume 16, 153–169. Emerald Publishing Limited.   Dralega, C. A., Corneliussen, G.; Prøitz, L. (2017) Mediebruk, samfunnsengasjement og sosial kapital i en digital æra: På jakt etter minoritetskvinners stemmer. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Immaterial Capital. Fjordantologien 2017. Universitetforlaget, Oslo.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A.; Agaredech, J.; Margaret Jjuko and Kantono, R. (2016) Gender mainstreaming in media and Journalism education – an audit of media departments in Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Journal of African Media Studies, Intellect ltd. 8.3. p247-249.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2011) Localizing UNSCR1325 through grassroots communication in Sierra Leone Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, vol.5, no. 3, 243-264   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega C.A., Due B., & Skogerbø E. (2010) Community Re-Engagement of Youth:eParticipation Realities in Norway and Uganda. <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Journal for Information Technology and International Development, University of North Carolina Annenberg Press.   <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;"> Dralega, C. A. (2010) Uganda’s Rural ICT Policy framework: Strengthes and disparities in reaching the last mile. In Adomi, E. (2010) (ed.) Handbook of Research on Information Communication Technology Policy: Trends, Issues and Advancement. IGI Global.    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) Open and Distance Learning for Peace through Community Radio in Northern Uganda: the Case of radio Apac. In Baksh R. And Munro T. (Eds.) Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding. P45-58. Commonwaelth of Learning. Vancouver    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) Participatory Ethos, Multimedia Experiments and Disjunctures in Community Media in Uganda, Equid Novi, African Journalism Studies. Vol. 30 (1) p24-41. University of Winsconsin Press, Madison.   <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) ICT Based Development of Marginal Communities: Participatory approaches to Communication, Empowerment and Engagement in Rural Uganda. Lambert Academic Publishing. Cologn.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A and Napakol A. Eds. (Forthcoming 2022) Covid 19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Strategic Crisis Communication. Emerald Publishers.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2016) Media, capacity building and gender parity: Why we shouldn’t look away. Journal of African Media Studies, Intellect ltd. 8.3. p247-249.   Dralega, C.A., Corneliussen G, C. & Seddighi, G. (<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">2019) Women's Experience of Role Models in IT: Landmark women, substitutes, and supporters. Modeller. Fjordantologien 2019. Universitetforlaget. Oslo.   Dralega, C. A. og Corneliussen, H. G. (2018) manifestations and contestations of Hegemony in video gaming by immigrant youth in Norway. In Media and Power in International contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity studies in Media and communications, Volume 16, 153–169. Emerald Publishing Limited.   Dralega, C. A., Corneliussen, G.; Prøitz, L. (2017) Mediebruk, samfunnsengasjement og sosial kapital i en digital æra: På jakt etter minoritetskvinners stemmer. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Immaterial Capital. Fjordantologien 2017. Universitetforlaget, Oslo.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A.; Agaredech, J.; Margaret Jjuko and Kantono, R. (2016) Gender mainstreaming in media and Journalism education – an audit of media departments in Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Journal of African Media Studies, Intellect ltd. 8.3. p247-249.   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2011) Localizing UNSCR1325 through grassroots communication in Sierra Leone Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, vol.5, no. 3, 243-264   <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega C.A., Due B., & Skogerbø E. (2010) Community Re-Engagement of Youth:eParticipation Realities in Norway and Uganda. <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Journal for Information Technology and International Development, University of North Carolina Annenberg Press.   <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;"> Dralega, C. A. (2010) Uganda’s Rural ICT Policy framework: Strengthes and disparities in reaching the last mile. In Adomi, E. (2010) (ed.) Handbook of Research on Information Communication Technology Policy: Trends, Issues and Advancement. IGI Global.    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) Open and Distance Learning for Peace through Community Radio in Northern Uganda: the Case of radio Apac. In Baksh R. And Munro T. (Eds.) Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding. P45-58. Commonwaelth of Learning. Vancouver    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) Participatory Ethos, Multimedia Experiments and Disjunctures in Community Media in Uganda, Equid Novi, African Journalism Studies. Vol. 30 (1) p24-41. University of Winsconsin Press, Madison.   PhD thesis   <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Dralega, C. A. (2009) ICT Based Development of Marginal Communities: Participatory approaches to Communication, Empowerment and Engagement in Rural Uganda. Lambert Academic Publishing. Cologn.

Education: Update education 2002-2008 - Doctor of Philosophy.Department of Media Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Thesis title: ICT Based Development of Marginal Communities – Participatory Approaches to Communication, Empowerment and Civic Engagement in Rural Uganda. Disputation date: 22.08.2008.   2000-2002 - Master of Philosophy.  Department of Media Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Thesis title: ICTS and Rural Women’s Empowerment: Reality or Utopia. Examining the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Uganda.   1993-1996 - Bachelor of Arts (Hons). Department of Mass Communication, Makerere University, Uganda. Thesis title: Gender representation in Print media in Uganda, Case of the Monitor Newspaper.

Teaching: Update teaching   2019                 Guest Lecturer – Political Communication, Media Effects and Public Participation, Department of Development Studies, University of Agder (UiA).   2018-todate       Lecturer/Course Coordinator – Media Representation, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer/Course Coordinator – Research Methods, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer –  Impact of New Technologies in Journalism Practice, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer – Gender in Journalism, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer –  Gender, democracy and Development, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer – Human Rights, Democracy and Media Development, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer – Media development through Journalism Education, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2018-todate       Lecturer –  ICT, democracy and Development, Department of Media and Journalism, NLA University College/Norway   2014-2018         Lecturer/Curriculum development – Media, Gender and Social Justice, Department of Media Studies, Uganda Christian University/Uganda   2014-2018         Lecturer/Curriculum development – ICT and Empowerment, Department of Media Studies, Uganda Christian University/Uganda   2005-2007         Lecturer – Information/Network Society, Department of Media Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

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Projects: Update projects      2022-2026        SOCYTI — Violence-inducing Behaviour Prevention in Social-Cyber Space of Local Communities. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Lead by Professor Rajendra Akerkar, Vestlandsforsking.   2021-2026        Preparing media practitioners for a resilient media in Eastern Africa. NORAD Funded and Coordinated by Dr. Terje Skjerdal.   2022-2023        En inkluderende møteplass for dataspill: støtteaktørenes bidrag i regulering av dataspill/Inclusive arenas for video gaming: Support actors’ contribution in regulating videogames. Funded by Norwegian Media Authority (Medietilsynet). Led by Gilda Seddighi, Vestlandsforsking.   2021-2022        Video Games and Critical Media Literacy among families in Norway. Funded by the Norwegian Media Authority. Lead by Dralega   2017-2021        Nordic Center of Excellence – Beyond the gender paradox: women’s careers in technology driven research and innovation – Norway, Finland and Sweden/Project Associate. NORDFORSK financing.   2014-2018        <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">NORHED - Building capacity for a changing media environment in Uganda/Project partner. NORAD financing. Partners, NLA University College, Uganda Christian University, University of Agder, University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa.   2017-2021        NORPART project – Capacity building with Addis Ababa University and Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia   2019-2020        Action Research towards preventing problematic video gaming among immigrant youth in Norway/Project manager. Medietilsynet and Nasjonalt Kompetansesenter for SPILLFORSK, University of Bergen financing.   2018                 <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Video game regulation among immigrant youth in Norway in family contexts/Project manager. Medietilsynet financing.   2017                 <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Video Gaming habits and Identity issues among ethnic minority youth in Norway/project manager. Medietilsynet financing.   2015-17            Arbeidsinnvandrere som ressurs I regional utvikling. Regionalt ForskningsFond (RFFVEST). (Note: Maternity leave disruptions). Partners: Vestlandsforsking, University of Stanvanger, Møreforsking, Høgskolen I Sogn og Fjordane (now Høgskolen på Vestlandet; Hordaland Fylkeskommune, Vestlandsrådet, Senter for Interkulturell Kommunikasjon, IRIS and Regionalt Forskningsfond.   2016                 <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Virtual identity, public sphere discourses and civic engagement of Muslim women in Norway/Project manager. Medietilsynet financing.   2010-2012        <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Towards a multicultural Sogn og Fjordane: Digital service delivery by Public and Private sectors /Project Applicant, researcher. Norwegian Research Council’s Regional Research Fund.   2010                 <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Production and consumption of social media by ethnic minority youth in Norway/project manager. Medietilsynet financing.   <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 47.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -47.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1;">2010-2012              <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Digital Dialogue in multicultural municipalities/Project partner. Fornyingsmidler.   <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">SFFM funding.   <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 70.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -70.8pt; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1;">2010-2013              <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Mapping Digital Paths in Stryn Municipality/Project manager. Medietilsynet financing.   <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 70.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -70.8pt; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1;">2010-2014              <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Digital competence development among highly educated immigrants for the labour market in Sogn og Fjordane/Project manager. REKOMP Funding.   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">2014                 Making Coding Fun for everybody. Project aimed at establishing International (EU) multi-stakeholder platform that promotes the national (Norway) and International cooperation and exchange on issues of digital inclusion and competence development. Actions/Activities are further coordinated and implemented through international collaboration and by national teams. Project coordinators: Vestlandsforsking (Dr. Hilde Corneliussen, Dr. Dralega Carol) and Senter for Tverrfaglig Kjønnforsking, UiO (Dr. Lin Prøitz). PES FUNDS from Norwegian Research Council.   <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2010-2012         Two bi-lateral projects between Vestlandsforsking NORWAY and Saint Stelian Association ROMANIA focusing on ICT BASED SERVICE DELIVERY FOR EMPOWERMENT OF MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES AND YOUTH:   1.       <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Establishing Digital Centre for Welfare and Basic Services Saint Stelian   2.       <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">Together for the future: innovative social services network to support disadvantaged children and youth. Dralega is Norway Coordinator   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">2009                 LEAD CONSULTANT For the ‘Forward-Looking Assessment of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Communication programs in Uganda and Sierra Leone’. Procured by the UN International Women’s Tribune Center, New York. <a href="https://941dc420-4e00-4016-b9e4-e229d2894e76.filesusr.com/ugd/4140fa_8bcbec3c1ea54afbbbb15bd3d32c3ad8.pdf" target="_blank">Executive Summary</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">. KEYWORDS: Multi-media (ICT) convergence , Community Radio, Drama Episodes, Content Development, Women advocacy groups, Grassroots, UN Legislation, Mobile phones, Public discussions, Participation, Ownership, Visibility, Awareness raising, Gender-based violence, sustainability, development-support communication<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NO-BOK;">.