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Samba Badji Debuts with Exciting Research

Samba Badji, DDMAC team member and researcher, has published his first journal article in Media and Communication. The research, titled "An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts", explores fact-checking practices in Ethiopia and Mali in times of conflict under restricted press freedom. The paper was co-authored…

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New Podcast Featuring DDMAC Researcher Out Now!

DDMAC's professor Mirjam de Bruijn recently spoke with Dr Jethro Norman and Professor Matthew Ford about radical war on the “Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell” podcast! You can listen here:

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DDMAC Project discusses digital authoritarianism at EACA2024

“Navigating Digital Authoritarianism: Communication Responses in African Contexts” was the theme of the panel convened by the DDMAC project team on 28 September 2024 as part of the 14th edition of the East African Communication Association (EACA) conference. The conference took place in Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania from 28 to 30…

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Samba Dialimpa Badji talks about “Information War in West Africa” at Literaturehuset in Oslo

West Africa is shaken by a multifaceted crisis whose immediate origins date back to 2012 when a Tuareg rebellion broke out in northern Mali. The crisis has now spread to other countries such as Burkina and Niger, which in addition of attacks by so-called jihadist groups are experiencing internal political…

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Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Stefan Brenner talk about Digital Wildfires and their emergence at re:publica 2023

The idea that harmful electromagnetic radiation emanates from mobile networks is not new. While ionizing radiation, such as X-rays, alpha, beta, gamma, or neutron radiation, can pose a health risk, low doses of non-ionizing radiation, like that emitted from radio or mobile phones, are considered harmless. Nevertheless, their alleged dangers…

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Interview with Mirjam: “Influencers, X and WhatsApp: sociale media and the coup in Niger”

Tim Senden interviewed Mirjam de Bruijn about the military coup in Niger. In the article, Mirjam explains how the current situation in Niger resembles coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, where social media usage contributed to the exacerbartion of  anti-French and pro-Russian sentiments on amongst others TikTok and X (formerly…

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Political leaders in times of digitalization and conflict: looking back at ECAS’23

This 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…

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Team meeting at Utrecht University

Right 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…

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Samba Dialimpa Badji participates in a panel on disinformation

On Monday March 27th from 15:00-16:30, Samba Dialimpa Badji participates in a panel on the consequences of fake news and disinformation in relation to democracy during an international panel organized by the Sahel Institute of Democracy and Governance in partnership with Global Democracy Coalition. Subscribe

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