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Irene Awino
Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Irene Awino
Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
Specialty area(s)
Media Studies
Global Media and Technology
International Affairs/News
Africa - News, Entertainment, Sports
Gender and Development
Journalism in the Global South - Critical Perspectives
Reparations, Affirmative Action, Migration, Human Rights
Current courses at UWL
CST 271 - Media and Society
CST 378 - Emerging Media and Society
Education
Phd (Media Studies) - University of Oregon
MA (Communication Studies) - University of Nairobi
BA (Linguistics/Sociology) - Kenyatta University
Career
Teaching history
Survey of Communication Studies
Media and Society
International Communication
Global Media and Communication
Media and Technology in Africa
Women, Gender Studies
Communication for Development and Social Change
Professional history
Journalist
Non-Profit Grassroots Advocacy (Women's Rights)
Associate Producer/ Documentary Film
Research and publishing
Publications
Awino, I., Fofie, I. & Steeves, H. L. (2023). Gender and Digital Communication in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Political Economy of Enduring Inequalities. In Creedon, J. P. & Wackwitz, A. L. (Eds.), Women in Mass Communication: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. (pp.125-140). Routledge.
Awino, I. (2021). Networks of collective memory. Women’s narratives of injustices in Northern Kenya. In Cloete, E., Ndakalako-Bannikov, M. & Crystal, M. (Eds.), Intervening Connections: Mapping Women’s Networks of Support in 21st Century African Communities (pp.143-162). Lexington Books.
Awino I. (2021) “You can’t run away from the truth”. Journalistic reflections of enduring injustices that shape news-making in Kenya. In E. C. Tandoc Jr., J. Jenkins, R. J. Thomas & O. Westlund (Eds.), Critical incidents in journalism. Pivotal moments reshaping journalism around the World (pp. 85-98). Routledge.
Steeves, H. L. & Awino, I. (2015). Gender Divides in African media. African Journalism Studies Journal, 36(1), pp. 84-92.
Awino, I. (2020). [Review of the book Peace through media, by L. Rhodes]. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5288-5291.
Awino, I. & Steeves, H. L. (2017). [Review of the book An Introduction to Communication, by R. Nyaga, D. Njoroge &, C. Nyambuga]. International Journal of Communication, 11, 1256-1260.