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…
read moreStories 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…
read moreOn 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
read moreOn December 13th the edited volume
read moreLuca 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.…
read moreL’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…
read moreOn Monday December 12th, junior researcher Luca presented a short pitch on DDMAC at the annual meeting of
read moreOn December 1st, Dutch newspaper Trouw featured an article in De Verdieping about the current situation in Mali and the relationship with the UN mission MINUSMA. For this article, journalist Joris Belgers interviewed Mirjam de Bruijn about the dynamics of the conflict. Mirjam de Bruijn illustrates the complexity of the…
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