December 2021 - change - Mailing Lists

Correction: Talk title is “That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV
by Kurtis Heimerl 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Whoops, wrong talk. See you all tomorrow. On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 10:11 AM Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there. > > Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a > combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more > accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these > interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing > and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized > illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these > concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based > facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an > informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and > interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of > the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics, > intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were > motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We > use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer > interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and > the role of aspirations in health interventions. > > Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School > of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies > have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community > health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the > relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the > valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist > in health and global development. > > -- > Website: https://kurti.sh/ > Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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12/7 Final Change Seminar: Naveena Karusala Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses
by Kurtis Heimerl 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there. Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics, intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and the role of aspirations in health interventions. Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist in health and global development. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Fwd: [gaia] Routing for Communities film festival - 3 December
by Kurtis Heimerl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Carlos Rey-Moreno <carlos.reymoreno(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:36 AM Subject: [gaia] Routing for Communities film festival - 3 December To: gaia <gaia(a)irtf.org> Dear all, The Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, is pleased to invite you to the *Routing for Communities film festival*, an online screening of short films about community networks and people decentralising the internet for change. Taking place on *3 December (Friday)*, the film festival offers the opportunity to see a series of creative and inspiring short videos produced by communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will be publicly screening for the first time a series of short films made by communities and organisations, after a process of feedback and exchange with the LocNet initiative for the past few years. We will also present films made by APC members and LocNet partners on diverse experiences with community networks. The films capture the different contexts and initiatives of community networks around the world, exploring both the challenges and joys of their work, and also the relationship between the right to communication through access to communications technologies and other fundamental rights and ways of living. Please join us on 3 December, when 12 short films will be presented in two screening sessions of six videos each, aimed at covering different time zones: one at 9:00 UTC and another at 14:00 UTC. The sessions will also open up the opportunity for a Q&A with the filmmakers and/or community members involved in the production of the films. *Save the date and register to attend here:* - Session 1 - 9:00 UTC <https://apc-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qr2pLDnfSJCSdKrSoPuKXQ> (English) - Session 2 - 14:00 UTC <https://apc-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsUoRI6fSbeJ7EmAJv4naQ> (English, Spanish and Portuguese): We will use the email registered and the APC website <https://www.apc.org/en/node/37784/> to provide further information on the films being screened. *About the Local Networks (LocNet) initiative* Led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, LocNet aims to directly support the work of community networks and contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community-based connectivity activities in the global South. Support for the production of some of the films and the film festival was made possible through funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) as part of the project "Connecting the unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives". [image: image.png] -- Carlos Rey-Moreno, PhD Co-lead Local Networks: Policy and Strategy Association for Progressive Communications https://www.apc.org/en/project/local-access-networks-can-unconnected-connec… Cel: +27 (0) 76 986 3633 Skype: carlos.reymoreno Twitter: Creym _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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