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Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia. From Hate Speech to Engagement in Social Media
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford (2015), 103 pp.
"We analyzed more than 13,000 statements during the project. This report primarily builds on the statements that were collected between 24 February and 24 June 2015, three months before and one month after the parliamentary elections that took place in Ethiopia on 24 May 2015.
FINDING 1: Hate and d
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Clones and zombies: Rethinking conspiracy theories and the digital public sphere through a (post)-colonial perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 12 (2023), pp. 2419-2438
"This article investigates what is at stake in decolonising the study of conspiracy theories online. It challenges the confidence with which conspiracy theories are often dismissed as aberrations and negative externalities of digital ecosystems. Without reifying conspiracy theories, we identify as p
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Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users
Social Media + Society, volume 7, issue 3 (2021), 16 pp.
"This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which has characterized most scholarship on the COVID-19 “infodemic,” and engaging with claims surrounding two popular
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Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2021), 266 pp.
"The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary
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The Impact of Chinese Tech Provision on Civil Liberties in Africa
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2020), 19 pp.
Hate Speech, Information Disorder, and Conflict: Research Review
SSRC (2020), 17 pp.
China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet
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London: Zed Books (2019), xi, 192 pp.
"Featuring a wealth of interviews with a variety of actors – from Chinese and African journalists in Chinese media to Chinese workers for major telecommunication companies – this highly original book demonstrates how China is both contributing to the 'Africa rising' narrative while exploiting th
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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-213
Freer But Not Free Enough? Chinese Journalists Finding Their Feet in Africa
Journalism, volume 18, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1049-1063
"The high-profile appearance of Chinese media organizations in Africa has attracted considerable attention. How Chinese correspondents in Africa actually go about their work is, however, little understood. A posting in Africa gives journalists at Xinhua News Agency or China Central Television a degr
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Tendances mondiales en matière de liberté des d’expression et de développement des médias. Rapport mondial 2017/2018
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Paris: UNESCO (2018), 200 pp.
"Nous observons ainsi des mutations profondes dans le champ de la liberté de la presse, qui progresse sur plusieurs points, mais recule également dans certains autres. La liberté des médias est notamment limitée par de nombreuses restrictions légales sur le droit de communiquer des information
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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.
"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester
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World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2017/2018
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Paris: UNESCO (2017), 200 pp.
"We have noted profound transformations in the field of media freedom, which is making progress in certain areas, but losing ground in others. Media freedom is limited in particular by many legal restrictions on the right to impart information and ideas, although progress is being made with regard t
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The Evolution of the Internet in Ethiopia and Rwanda: Towards a “developmental” Model?
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, volume 5, issue 1 (2016), 24 pp.
"The Internet in Africa has become an increasingly contested space, where competing ideas of development and society battle for hegemony. By comparing the evolution of the Internet in Ethiopia and Rwanda, we question whether policies and projects emerging from two of Africa’s fastest growing, but
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‘Can You Hear Me?’ Mobile–radio Interactions and Governance in Africa
New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 9 (2016), pp. 2080-2095
"The exponential diffusion of mobile phones in Africa and their ability to interact with other media have created new avenues for individuals to interface with power. These forms of engagement, however, have primarily been interpreted through the lenses of the ‘liberation technology’ agenda, whi
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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xv, 341 pp.
"This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a powerful platform used by pr
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Countering Online Hate Speech
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 71 pp.
"The present report provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it, highlighting good practices that have emerged at the local and global levels. While the study offers a comprehensive analysi
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Combattre les discours de haine sur internet
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 82 pp.
Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford (2015), 35 pp.
"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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In Search of Local Knowledge on ICTs in Africa
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, volume 4, issue 1 (35) (2015), pp. 1-15
"This article explores whether, and to what extent, local knowledge features in research on the role of ICTs in statebuilding and peacebuilding in Africa, with a particular focus on neighboring Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. We question whether the claims of the transformative power of ICTs are backe
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