‘Participatory war and peace: How social media reshape public engagement in conflict’, was the provoking title of a workshop that was held at the University of Sheffield on July 6th, 2023. The workshop brought together scholars who combine the study of conflict and the study of digital environments to better understand today’s conflict ecologies. The…
read moreOn June 8th Mamadou Togola and Mirjam de Bruijn published the article
read moreThis year the European Conference on African Studies took place in Cologne. For four days, scholars attended the conference to discuss the pertinent theme African Futures. In light of this theme, DDMAC contributed with a panel on emerging socio-political leadership in times of conflict and digitalization. Due to the unfortunate allocation of visa, six instead…
read moreAn expanding group of Malian TikTok creators amuses its audiences with funny virals, made popular in particular by audio snippets. At the same time, the echoing of content is influenced by Mali’s fragmented context of destabilization and conflict. In this short essay, I question what contemporary audiovisual snapshots depicting war tell about the precarity between…
read moreRight before the start of summer, team members Samba Dialimpa Badji, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Bruce Mutsvairo, Mirjam de Bruijn, Modibo Galy Cissé, and Luca Bruls met up at Utrecht University to move publications and output forward. They discussed preliminary results of a survey on TikTok usage in Mali, theorized the qualities of hashtags, and reflected…
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