Dr. Leah Jerop Komen Profile

Books

Komen, Leah Jerop. (2021). Mobile assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Areas: https://www.amazon.in/Mobile-Assemblages-Maendeleo-Rural-Kenya/dp/9956552844
Published2021
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(2014) The Delight of worship: Communicating through praise and worship found here: https://www.amazon.com/Delight-Worship- Communicating-Through-Praise/dp/1491888601
Published2014
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Journals

Komen, L. J. (2025). The ‘empowering’ capacities of mobile telephony for development: perspectives from the global South. Journal of Development and Communication Studies, 9(1), 1-14.
Published2025
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Frith, J., Campbell, S., & Komen, L. (2023): Looking back to look forward: 5G/COVID19 Conspiracies and the long history of infrastructural fears. Mobile Media & Communication, 11(2).174-192
Published2023
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Campbell, SW., & Komen, L.J (2023). Doing mobile media and communication scholarships in different keys: Sounding out structure and integration in the field. Mobile Media & Communication, 11(1), 40-46
Published2023
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Komen, Leah Jerop. (2020). “My Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development (Maendeleo) and Gender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, no. 16. 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.00.0
Published2020
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Komen, L. J (2020). Engaging the disengaged: Examining the domestication of mobile telephony among older adults in Trans-Nzoia and Bungoma Counties in Western Kenya. Journal of Development and Communication Studies, 7(1):24- 34. https://doi.org/10.4314/jdcs.v7i1-2.2
Published2020
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Nganda, J.M., Komen, L.J and Mbogoh, B., (2020). Perception of HIV/AIDS infection and its effect on condom use among the youth of Kenya’s Kibera Slum. Journal of Development and Communication Studies, 7(1): 35-46 https://doi.org/10.4314/jdcs.v7i1-2.3
Published2020
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Kisiangani, F., Gachari, R & Komen, L. J. (2019). Challenges of Communicating Cancer Screening Awareness and Uptake in Bungoma County, Kenya. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network.
Published2019
Link: https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2018.112.537

Komen, L.J. (2017). Mobile telephony and copresence in Marakwet, Kenya. Journal of Development and Communication Studies, 5(1): 44-55. 
Published2017
Link: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jdcs.v5i1.3

Komen, L. (2016). M-PESA: A Socio-economic assemblage in rural Kenya. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 9(5), 1-12. 
Published2016
Link: doi:10.31165/nk.2016.95.458

Komen, L. (2016). ““Here you can use it”. Understanding mobile phone sharing and the concerns it elicits in rural Kenya. for (e) dialogue, 1(1), 52-65. doi:10.29311/for(e)dialogue.v1i1.532
Published2016
Link: https://doi.org/10.29311/for(e)dialogue.v1i1.532

Karaimu, P.K., Kimotho, S, and Komen, L.J (2016) Influence of Media Messages on Self-Efficacy Towarsd Cervical Cancer Screening among women aged 18-30 Years in Kiambu Institute of Technology. http://erepo.usiu.ac.ke/handle/11732/1/discover?query=KOMEN+&submit=Go
Published2016
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Komen, L. (2014). Mobile assemblages and Maendeleo in rural Kenya; A case of Marakwet (Unpublished PhD thesis). London, UK: University of East London. Available at: http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4182/
Published2014
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Book Chapters

Komen, L. J. (2024). Digitization, Communication, and Financial Independence in East Africa. Taylor & Francis.
Published2024
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Komen, L.J. (2024). Economic Potentials of Gendered Mobile Communication: Women’s Agency in Digital Africa. Routledge.
Published2024
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Komen, L. (2023). M-Learning: Appropriating social media for pedagogy in Kenya. In The Routledge Handbook on Media and Technology Domestication. Taylor & Francis, (481-492)
Published2023
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Conferences

Published2023

Panelist at the 73rd ICA Annual conference held at Toronto, Canada (2531st May, 2023): Digital Africa: Challenges and Opportunities panel. Chaired by Prof Paterson Chris, Leeds University, UK