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Nyx McLean
Nyx McLean on 20 April, 2012 - 05:43 · Africa
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Nyx is an activist who works in various fields, including gender-based violence, LGBTIAQ rights, internet rights, identity and media for social change. She holds an MA from Rhodes University, and her academic work deals primarily with rape reporting and normative theories of the media.

In South Africa a video recently went viral in which a young woman is gang-raped. This video has re-ignited discussions around gender-based violence within the country, many of these discussions have taken place on social media platforms such as Twitter.

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Gender in the online news: The 2010 GMMP

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 6 October, 2010 - 06:41
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Since the 1995 conference in Beijing, the Global Media Monitoring Project has provided a snapshot of gender iimbalances in the world's media, once every five years. This year, they expanded the coverage from the 'traditional' media to take a look at the interneti. Unfortunately, their findings were not encouraging.

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