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Promoting Digital Security and Empowering Queer Youth through Storytelling Techniques

Facts

Contact person:

Financers:

Swedish Institute – Creative Force

Responsible at Malmö University:

Project members:

Jakob Svensson

Affiliate:

Queer Youth Uganda

Collaborators:

Cecilia Strand – Uppsala University

Time frame:

01 December 2019 - 30 May 2021

Faculty/department:

Research environment :

Data Society

Research subject:

Media and Communication Studies

Project description

The project will increase awareness and digital security competencies amongst Ugandan (urban and rural) queer youth using storytelling techniques. Stories will be edited jointly by Ugandan queer youth and Swedish students into podcasts and spread in respective communities. The project will include research on digital storytelling and the empowerment of marginalized communities.