“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…
read more‘Participatory war and peace: How social media reshape public engagement in conflict’, was the provoking title of a workshop that was held at the University of Sheffield on July 6th, 2023. The workshop brought together scholars who combine the study of conflict and the study of digital environments to better…
read moreOn June 8th Mamadou Togola and Mirjam de Bruijn published the article
read moreOn December 13th the edited volume
read moreL’utilisation croissante des réseaux sociaux au Tchad pourrait faciliter la transition politique, mais elle risque également d’attiser la violence. Avec le soutien des bailleurs, les autorités, la société civile, les plateformes en ligne et les influenceurs et influenceuses devraient s’assurer que les réseaux sociaux restent un espace de débat démocratique…
read moreThis blog was originally published on The workshop also introduced new methods for structuring research and producing non-polarizing stories. Learning by doing was the pedagogical principle during the five days. Participants talked a lot with each other and went "out on the street" twice to do reporting and research. For…
read moreIn 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.…
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 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…
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