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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…

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Mirjam de Bruijn reports on political violence in Chad

In a recent

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TikTok and the Tigrayan Conflict

Master student Chiara Cozzatella and Research Master student Pieter Roden wrote a blog as…

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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…

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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…

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Mirjam de Bruijn co-writes two chapters in the edited volume Drylands Facing Change

On December 13th the edited volume

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Mirjam de Bruijn interviewed about Mali and the UN mission

On December 1st, Dutch newspaper Trouw featured an article in De Verdieping about the…

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Kristin Skare Orgeret awarded with OsloMet’s Research Dissemination Prize

On 30 November, OsloMet awarded four awards to individual researchers and a research group.…

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Loretta van der Horst makes three short documentaries on the information disorder in Ethiopia

DDMAC proudly presents you the visual results of a

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Call for papers: DDMAC panel at ECAS9 Conference 2023

DDMAC will participate with a panel at the ECAS9 Conference on African Futures in…

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A panel discussion by DDMAC at the conference on the safety of journalists

On Wednesday November 2nd the DDMAC research group participated in the 8th annual conference…

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Mirjam de Bruijn works on ‘Tchadoblog’

This blog was originally published on The workshop also introduced new methods for structuring…

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DDMAC welcomes PhD student Samba Dialimpa Badji

Samba Dialimpa Badji is the newest member of the DDMAC project as a research…

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DDMAC participates in Conference on the Safety of Journalists

The DDMAC team participates in the 8th International Conference on the Safety of Journalists.…

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Kristin Skare Orgeret writes on the Nobel Peace Prize for Press Freedom

Kristin Skare Orgeret and her colleague Julie Posetti reflect on this year's peace prize,…

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Bruce Mutsvairo a delivers keynote speech at SACOMM2022

The annual South African Communications conference took place at Wits University in South Africa…

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Digital media in Ethiopia at a glance

In May 2022, I, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, facilitated a five days consultative meeting for…

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Daniel Thilo Schroeder gives a talk at the summer academy “The Geopolitics of Disinformation”

From the 29th of August until the 1st of September the summer academcy The…

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Bruce Mutsvairo participates in a panel at the Freedom of Expression Conference in Oslo

Since the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awared the brave journalists Maria Ressa and…

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Call for Panels ECAS 2023

The DDMAC team would like to draw your attention to the call for panels…

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