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Carol Azungi Dralega, Ph.D.

NLA University College, Norway, Uganda — Associate Professor

Research Areas

  • Games and Play
  • Journalism
  • Media and Information Literacy
  • Media, Information and Communication Technology
  • Political Communication

Ongoing Projects

Highlighted publications

Dralega, C. A. (2022). Media Viability, Covid-19 and the ‘Darwinian’Experience in Southern Africa: Glimpses from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Health crises and media discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 53-72). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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Dralega, C. A., Katuwal, Y. B., & Mainsah, H. (2022). COVID-19 Lockdown, Information Access and Use Among African Diaspora in Norway. In COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication (pp. 197-213). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dralega, C. A., Jjuuko, M., & Solomon, E. (2022). Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Impact of COVID-19 on Feminist Media in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. In COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication (pp. 19-33). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dralega, C. A. (2008). Examining women's customary roles as sex educators through community media in Uganda. Agenda, 22(77), 91-99.

Dralega, C. A., Amia, P., Kidanu, G. B., Santigie, K. B., Mpala, D. K., & Osei, W. K. (2022). From Scaremongering to Messages of Hope: How State Authorities in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe Framed the COVID-19 Crisis on Facebook. In COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication (pp. 127-143). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dralega, C. A. (2011). Localizing UNSCR1325 through grassroots communication in Sierra Leone. Observatorio (OBS*), 5(3).

Napakol, A., Kitego, E., & Dralega, C. A. (2022). (Mis) Information, Sources and Credibility: Targeting Youth in Public Health Response to COVID-19 in Uganda. In COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication (pp. 77-98). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dralega, C. A., & Corneliussen, H. G. (2018). Kapittel 11: Gaming and identity construction among immigrant youth in Norway: Convergent glocal contexts. In Det regionale i det internasjonale: Fjordantologien 2018 (pp. 187-205). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Corneliussen, H. G., Seddighi, G., & Dralega, C. A. (2022). The Discourse of Rurality in Women’s Professional-life Narratives: Gender and ICT in Rural Norway. Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation, 173.

Dralega, C. A. (2018). The symbolic annihilation of hegemonic femininity in Black Panther. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10(3), 462-465.

Jemaneh, A., & Dralega, C. A. (2022). COVID-19 and the Ethiopian Newspaper Industry: Challenges and Opportunities. COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication, 47-58.

Dralega, C. A., & Corneliussen, H. G. (2017). Intersectional perspectives on video gaming among immigrant youth in Norway. Vestlandsforsking-rapport nr. 12.

Dralega, C. A. (2009). ICTs, youths, and the politics of participation in rural Uganda. African Media and the Digital Public Sphere, 125-142.

Dralega, C. A., & Corneliussen, H. G. (2018). Manifestations and Contestations of Hegemony in Video Gaming by Immigrant Youth in Norway. In Media and power in international contexts: Perspectives on agency and identity (Vol. 16, pp. 153-169). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dralega, C. A. (2016). Media, capacity building and gender parity: Why we shouldn’t look away. Journal of African Media Studies, 8(3), 247-249.

Dralega, C. A., Due, B., & Skogerbø, E. (2010). Community re-engagement of youth: Eparticipation realities in Uganda and Norway. Information Technologies & International Development, 6(1), pp-94.

Dralega, C. A., Seddighi, G., Corneliussen, H. G., & Prøitz, L. (2019). From helicopter parenting to co-piloting: Models for regulating video gaming among immigrant youth in Norway. In Modeller: Fjordantologien 2019 (pp. 223-241). Universitetsforlaget.

Dralega, C. (2007). Rural women's ICT use in Uganda: Collective action for development. Agenda, 21(71), 42-52.

Dralega, C. A. (2011). Uganda’s Rural ICT Policy Framework: Strengths and Disparities in Reaching the Last Mile. In Frameworks for ICT Policy: Government, Social and Legal Issues (pp. 277-289). IGI Global.

Seddighi, G., Dralega, C. A., Corneliussen, H. G., & Prøitz, L. “Time-use” in regulation of gaming: a “non-Western” immigrant family perspective.

Dralega, C. A. (2009). Exploring the Principles of the Community Media. The Power of Communication: Changes and Challenges in African Media, 287.

Dralega, C. A. (2009). ICT based development of marginal communities: participatory approaches to communication. Empowerment and Civic engagement. UNIPUB. University of Oslo.

About

Originally from Uganda, I currently work as an Associate Professor on the Global Journalism program – Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, NLA University College, Norway. I have prior experience as a sub-editor and reporter at the New Vision Corporation and the Monitor Publication, Uganda’s leading dailies. In 2019 I was was editor and mentor for the Youth Newsroom (Youth Times) at the World Press Freedom Day celebrations at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I am involved in several research projects including: Violence-inducing Behaviour Prevention in Social-Cyber Space of Local Communities funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2022-26). Preparing Media Practitioners for a Resilient Media in Eastern Africa, Funded by the Norwegian Development Agency (2021-2026). Building capacity for a changing media environment in Uganda funded by the Norwegian Development Agency (2014-2019).

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