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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“La Nuit des idées” – The night of ideas

Research Fellow Johannes Langguth participated in a debate during the annual manifestation, known as “la Nuit des idées”, at the Institut francais de Paris on January 27th. This year the…

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