SMIT - Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication

DORIEN BAELDEN
Researcher
In 2003 Dorien obtained her master’s degree in Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a thesis concerning the implementation and use of ICTs for development. After her studies she traveled to Africa to work for a non-profit organization on a project concerning food security. Since 2005 Dorien has been a researcher at SMIT where she has been involved in several interdisciplinary user-oriented research projects. From 2006 to 2008 she combined her research activities at SMIT with research activities for Close the Gap, an international non-profit organization that helps to bridge the digital divide. Currently Dorien is working on a joint South African – Belgian research project and she is writing a Ph.D. on the use and effectiveness of digital campaigns for health promotion purposes. More in specific, she focuses on the opportunities of online networks and discussion forums for primary HIV and AIDS prevention. Dorien’s research interests are situated in the field of communication for social change, ICT for development (ICT4D), health communication, online ethnography, online participatory communication, and e-learning.
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	Policy Studies


	PhD Baelden, Digital Layer on HIV/AIDS, WIRELESS CITIES, MINECO


	Using new technologies for stimulating interpersonal communication on HIV and AIDS (2012) Fifteen years of universal access policies  in South Africa. A genealogy of the telecentre concept and its related  policies (2011) Interpersonal Communication and Computer Mediated Collaborative Learning: Towards a Theoretical Research Framework for Primary HIV and AIDS Prevention (2011) Paradigm Shifts in Primary HIV & AIDS Prevention: Why and How Interpersonal Communication Matters (2011) Challenges and Opportunities of Participation in Primary HIV & AIDS Prevention: Findings from an Interactive Web-based Intervention (2010) ICT adoptie en gebruik door KMO's: een sectorspecifieke benadering. Presentation at workshop 'Aannemers en Informatica' by WTCB, Confederatie Bouw and Syntra on informatica in de bouwsector. (2009) ICT as the new red ribbon? Exploring the opportunities of new technologies for innovative communication strategies in the field of primary HIV and AIDS prevention at the University of the Western Cape. (2009) ICT4D in de informatiesamenleving - Oude wijn in nieuwe zakken. (2009) Results of the Belspo research into digital strategies for HIV and AIDS campaigning in a South African university context. (2008) ... [Another 9 publications]