Ethiopia

DD-MAC fieldwork trip to Addis Abeba

Mulatu Alemayehu, Samba Dialimpa Badji and Kristin Skare Orgeret did fieldwork in Addis Ababa 12-18 March 2023. They carried out qualitative interviews with eleven media leaders, editors and journalists in Addis Ababa and organized an additional round table session with another ten informants focusing on fact checking where Bruce Mutsvairo…

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TikTok and the Tigrayan Conflict

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…

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Digital media in Ethiopia at a glance

In May 2022, I, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, facilitated a five days consultative meeting for the DDMAC research team with different sectors in Ethiopia. During these days the team had discussions with diplomats at the Norwegian Embassy, media experts coming from universities, media firms, NGOs, fact checking groups, and university students.…

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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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