The DDMAC team participates in the 8th International Conference on the Safety of Journalists. The conference, co-organized by Kristin Skare Orgeret, takes place at OsloMet University from the 1st until the 2nd of November. On november 1st, new team member and PhD candidate Samba Badji is chairing the panel discussion…
read moreKristin Skare Orgeret and her colleague Julie Posetti reflect on this year's peace prize, awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” The awarding of this price is symbolically important seeing the pollution of…
read moreThe annual South African Communications conference took place at Wits University in South Africa from 14-16 September. The conference brought together media, communications and journalism academics who reflected on a range of topics such as politics and media, film, and feminist and decolonial theory. DDMAC teammember Bruce Mutsvairo delivered a…
read moreFrom the 29th of August until the 1st of September the summer academcy The Geopolitics of Disinformation took place in Bonn. During the summer academy researchers reflected on disinformation, propaganda, and fake news in the light of new technologies. The aim of the conference was to theorize and analyze the…
read moreSince the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awared the brave journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov last December, the Nobel Peace Center has organized a series of seminars on journalism and freedom of expression. The series of seminars culminated in a large Freedom of Expression Conference at the Peace Center…
read moreThe DDMAC team would like to draw your attention to the call for panels for ECAS 2023. "African Futures, the 9th European Conference on African Studies is just around the corner. The Call for Panels is now OPEN. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is October 3, 2022. As Europe’s…
read moreProject leader Kristin Skare Orgeret organizes the annual MEKK Safety of Journalists Conference, which will take place at OsloMet University in Norway on November 1–2. The conference covers the topic "Solidarity and self-learning for improved safety for journalists". "The purpose of the conference is to produce knowledge about measures that…
read moreNoémie 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…
read moreThe 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,…
read moreThe 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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