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“Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence”

This spring, Mirjam de Bruijn starts a new research project funded by NWO. The project, titled Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence, is an interdisciplinary endeavour in collaboration with DDMAC, as well as Digital Humanities at Leiden University, in which a team of researchers…

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TikTok and the Tigrayan Conflict

Master student Chiara Cozzatella and Research Master student Pieter Roden wrote a blog as part of a course at Leiden University. In this research project we aimed at understanding how the recent Tigrayan conflict is portrayed via TikTok. The short-form audio-visual content and young audience of TikTok provide an interesting…

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Factforward: reflections on a future of disinformation

Stories on artificial intelligence, such as deepfakes, Google voice generators, and the impact of conversation chatbots like ChatGPT, seem to occupy disinformation researchers at the time. Seeing-is-believing does no longer uphold and neither can people always trust their ears. The AI tools are powerful for producing deliberately misleading information, as…

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Samba Dialimpa Badji writes blog for Africa Check

PhD candidate Samba published a

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DDMAC team publishes article on the future of disinformation studies

On May 25th 2022, a pre-conference at Sciences Po in Paris was held, where scholars came to discuss the question: “What comes after disinformation studies?” As a result a special

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Luca Bruls publishes journal article on Algerian TikTok in CyberOrient

Luca Bruls has published her first lengthy academic paper based on nethographic research she carried out during her research master in 2020. The article is open access and available through CyberOrient. The article addresses the following: "In Algeria, youth form attitudes towards music as a result of their TikTok usage.…

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Chad’s Transition: Easing Tensions Online

L’utilisation croissante des réseaux sociaux au Tchad pourrait faciliter la transition politique, mais elle risque également d’attiser la violence. Avec le soutien des bailleurs, les autorités, la société civile, les plateformes en ligne et les influenceurs et influenceuses devraient s’assurer que les réseaux sociaux restent un espace de débat démocratique…

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Luca Bruls presents DDMAC at LeidenASA Annual Meeting

On Monday December 12th, junior researcher Luca presented a short pitch on DDMAC at the annual meeting of

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