re-act: photo elicitation @ westminster university

Community

Multimedia Centres

in Mozambique:

blending new and

old media.

A photo-semiotic study

Dr. Isabella Rega

Sara Vannini

Prof. dr. Lorenzo Cantoni

NewMinE Lab

Università della Svizzera italiana,

Lugano, Switzerland

Community Multimedia Centres

are community-based facilities offering

both community radio broadcasting

and telecentre services.

(UNESCO, 2000)

radio telecentre

• From the World to the Community

• Intra-Community

• [From the Community to the World]

• From the World to the Community

• [Intra-Community]

• [From the Community to the World]

Sample

What do CMCs mean to...?

• Initiating Agencies

• Staff

• Users of CMCs

• Users of Community Radio/Non-Users

241 semi-structured interviews

361 photos staff

users whole CMC

Photo elicitation

1. Take a picture of something that you like of this place.

2. Take a picture of something that you don’t like/that could be

improved of this place.

TC,

Radio,

CMC

WCM

pillars

p1: services,

P2: tools &

facilities,

P3: people

managing,

P4: users

«I can use and develop the skills that the trainers teach me.»Cuamba User 9 Photo 1P1

«I don’t like it because one day it can fall down on us, because it is broken, so i don’t like it»

Chitima Staff 1 Photo 2P2

«I came to learn computers, this is what is important, and they are teachingus very well.»

Chokwe User 7 Photo 1P3

«It  represents the study centre in the community radio of Chiure. It iswhere young people learn information technologies (…) futhermore, theyhave other activities of interest for the young people and for the communityin general.»

Chiure Utente 2 Photo 1

P4

P1: Services – 33.3%P4: Users – 32.4% P2: Tools & Facilities – 30.4%P3: People Managing – 16.7%

ALL (#102)

P1: Services – 32.7%P3: People Managing – 30.6%P4: Users – 26.5% P2: Tools & Facilities – 20.4%

STAFF (#49)

59.8% 30.4%

55.1% 32.7% 10.2%

P2: Tools & Facilities – 39.6%P1: Services – 34%P4: Users – 37.7%

USERS (#53)

84.9%

What they like

P1: Services – 33.3%P4: Users – 32.4% P2: Tools & Facilities – 30.4%P3: People Managing – 16.7%

ALL (#102)

P1: Services – 36.9%P4: Users – 32.3% P2: Tools & Facilities – 27.7%P3: People Managing – 16.9%

MALES (#65)

59.8% 30.4%

58.5% 35.4%

P2: Tools & Facilities – 35.1%P4: Users – 32.4% P1: Services – 27%P3: People Managing – 16.2%

FEMALES (#37)

62.2% 21.6% 13.5%

What they like

P2: Facilities - 74.7%P2: Tools - 25.3%

ALL (#93)

P2: Facilities - 60%P2: Tools - 40%

STAFF (#47)

58.1% 32.3%

46.8% 34.0% 19.1%

P2: Facilities – 88.4%P2: Tools - 11.6%

USERS (#46)

What they don’t like

69.6% 30.4%

Thank You!

www.react-project.ch

www.newmine.org

isabella.rega@usi.ch

sara.vannini@usi.ch

lorenzo.cantoni@usi.ch