DDMAC Blog

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DDMAC welcomes summer intern Noémie Fritz

Noémie Fritz is the newest member of our team. Noémie is a master student in nuclear physics at University of Oslo. She is a summer intern at Simula Research Laboratory, and accordingly on the DDMAC project. She has been labelling Twitter data on Mali and Ethiopia and she is making…

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Fieldsnaps: ‘Forging Ahead’

From the 15th until the 20th of May the DDMAC team visited Addis Abeba. The below collection of pictures tells a visual story of their research trip. Multiple meetings, workshops, and informal gatherings allowed and inspired the team to collect data and meet people who are at the forefront of…

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DDMAC Project launch and workshop

The DDMAC team is currently is Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, where they join Mulatu Alemayu for a five-day programme to launch the project. The aim of the project launch is to map developments associated with the role of digital media networks across Ethiopia, to present the DDMAC project to key stakeholders,…

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Memetic Warfare on Twitter

Besides URLs and short text snippets, which contain news events, opinions and references to others, Twitter is full of visual content. Twitter-users in Mali decorate their profiles with photos, videos, infographics, documents, and memes to communicate their perspectives on pressing issues. A key aspect of the visual imagery is its…

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Digital media and the Malian crisis: the changing relationship between traditional media and social media

Pour le français voir ci-dessous Since the outbreak of the Malian crisis in 2012 up to the present day, digital media have played a major role in the distribution of information. Journalists and bloggers convey various genres of information through communicative and community platforms. Social networks are proving to be…

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Mapping “fake news” in the field: Mirjam de Bruijn reports on the workshop in Bamako

The proliferation of “Fake news” is hogging the limelight in Mali. Worse still, the tension between Mali and its neighbors continue to rise after the military-led government welcomed the Russian mercenaries widely known as the Wagner Group. Due to the complexity and multifacetedness of the conflict and prevailing disagreements, it…

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Mirjam de Bruijn and Modibo Cisse lead data-gathering workshop in Bamako

Pour le français voir ci-dessous Mirjam de Bruijn recently traveled to Mali, where she will join Modibo Cisse in leading a data-gathering workshop, which seeks to map developments associated with the advent of digital media across Mali. The workshop seeks to investigate what role digital networks play in Malian society.…

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Mirjam de Bruijn participates in “Trust and Violence in Times of Conflict: Africa and Beyond” workshop

In line with the interests of our project, Mirjam de Bruijn participated in a panel with a presentation titled “Discursive Warfare in Social Media: On-Line spaces of Belonging and of Distrust”, as part of the online workshop “Trust and Violence in Times of Conflict: Africa and Beyond", which was organized…

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Featured – Military missions in Mali

Mirjam de Bruijn, Kristin Skare Orgeret and Bruce Mutsvairo recently reflected on the current situation in Mali in Dutch media outlets Algemeen Dagblad, The Guardian. They discussed the instability in the Sahel, the growing tensions between France and Mali and the presence of Russian mercenaries Wagner. While ECOWAS sanctioned Mali…

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Kristin Skare Orgeret facilitates two talks at Bergen International Literature Festival

Project leader Kristin Skare Orgeret recently facilitated two talks at the annual literary festival in Norway on the 10th and 12th of February. In the first talk, she held a discussion with former Norwegian Minister of Culture and Equality, Abid Raja about his autobiographic tale of detachment from an oppressive…

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