I am delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our forthcoming special issue: Content, Capital and Culture: The Political Economy of Digital Platforms in Africa co-edited with Assoc Prof #UfuomaAkpojivi
Abstract deadline: February 20, 2026.
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Finally launched. Grab a copy.
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I'd like to know how many uni administrators have even the slightest awareness of these harms. How is it not utterly egregious to impose novel technologies at scale without so much as considering possible negative consequences? Either they understand nothing about AI or they are fine with the risks.
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A ring of yellow stars and icons (including a bell, a lock, a magnifying glass, and several with 'no' symbols) on a purple background with binary code overlaid.
Text reads: "DIGITAL SERVICES ACT. First report on the most prominent and recurrent systemic risks on very large online platforms."
The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
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My new research project examines the digital technologies partnerships that Africa signs with Global North partners. They come with copy and paste strategies paying no attention to differences in context and needs. They commercialise public services, risking national data to commercial interests.
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Palgrave has finally published my new book, Technologies and Media Production Cultures, co-edited with Prof Ufuoma Akpojivi. Thanks to University of Edinburgh (Centre of African studies) and University of the Witwatersrand(WitsPolitics).
The book is here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007....
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Our new book is coming out soon. Visit the link below to see what’s inside. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, @uoe-sps.bsky.social and @UniversityofWitwatersrand for inspiring this project.
www.routledge.com/The-BBCs-Leg...
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Celebrating my @WitsPolitics student, #TintswaloChauke, for winning the Honours Research Essay Prize. It was a pleasure supervising her dissertation on State Intelligence in Ghana during the Cold War. She is brilliant and among the few who got distinctions in research in our department. 👏👏👏
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My co-edited book with @UfuomaAkpojivi, Technologies and Media Production Cultures: A Global South Perspective', part of the 'Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South' is now available for preorder.
@uoe-sps.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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South Sudan blocks social media
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Probably one of the first books to present a closer look at how digital technologies are transforming African newsrooms. The book shows using empirical evidence what is happening and changing in different African newsrooms. Coming out soon!
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Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
We stand together with these nations and the people of these nations 🇨🇦🇬🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇦 #NAFO #FAFO .
Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
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For the curious and cunning. Reinstalling MediciOS. Ideas reborn. Influence retooled. Principles reprogrammed. Digital age insight restoring civilization’s civic software—to dispel a new Dark Age. reboottherenaissance.substack.com | #bskystorians
Assoc. Prof. of Communication and Global Media Studies at UNH studying media, migration, and nationalism in Germany, Europe, and across the Atlantic. Alum of AnnenbergPenn. Wrote Interrogating Integration https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14405925
Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
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Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire | John Akomfrah (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)
Professor, Media Culture @CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies @CUNY Graduate Center.
All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.
Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
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Interdisciplinary centre at Queen's University, Canada, aimed at advancing research and teaching on the intersections of #democracy and #diversity.
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Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
I teach political science and IR at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Interested in everything, friend of all animals. 'Great dad' -my dogs. 'Excellent at D&D' -my players. 'Falls far short of adequate' -my cat.
anthro & history in e. africa | book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009501385
Lecturer: African Studies and International Development @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | International Development | Migration | African Diaspora |
Book: ‘Horizontal Development’ available here: https://bristol-press.co.uk/horizontal-development
