Dr Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi
Dr Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi is the Director of KASA Training and Development Pty, her private enterprise that specializes in research and training in Sub-Saharan Africa. She also serves as a part-time supervisor for research projects at STADIO Higher Education in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Asakitikpi has undertaken extensive research on media and curricular representations of gender, asserting that these depictions can lay the groundwork for legitimizing gender-based violence, inequalities, and oppressive patriarchal cultures, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently the Principal Investigator for the FIRN-funded research project titled "Exploring Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Online Dating Experiences among South African Youths."
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Gender, Power, and Digital Spaces: Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence amongst students of South African Higher Institutions
This article highlights the key findings on university students’ understanding and experiences regarding TFGBV on social media and online dating platforms in South Africa.
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Exploring technology-facilitated GBV in online dating experiences among South African youths: Reflexivity on the research methods
This article explores the various decisions that the research teams had to make throughout the process and how being reflexive also means being ready to revise research design, and subsequently open the doors for other ways of doing and knowing.
