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Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda
London: Zed Books (2024), xiv, 242 pp.
"In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt
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Digital authoritarianism: A systematic literature review
Information Technology for Developpment (2024), 25 pp.
"Authoritarianism is in the ascendancy across the globe, with digital technologies being used by both governments and non-state actors to repress rights and freedoms. Competing terms have emerged to conceptualize such use of digital technologies, including the term digital authoritarianism and a ran
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Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
London et al.: Zed Books (2023), xxi, 234 pp.
"With contributions from scholars across the continent, Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. This book dramatically expands our understanding of the v
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Predictive Analytics in Humanitarian Action: A Preliminary Mapping and Analysis
Brighton (UK): Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 47 pp.
From Simple Fixes to Systemic Enablers: The Future of Digital Development
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 16 pp.
"Far too often the implicit theory of change in digital developments, as with technology for development more generally, is that importing technologies can fix development. This does not acknowledge the political and social transformations that are needed to address and overcome economic and power a
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Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation Participatory Video (PV)
"Benefiting from more than 50 years of practice and innovation, participatory video (PV) is a firmly established approach in the field of communications for development. The term “participatory video” is used to refer to a very wide range of practices that involve nonprofessionals in making thei
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Assessing the Role of Social Media and Digital Technology in Violence Reporting
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 33 pp.
"This paper assesses the role of social media and digital technologies (SMDTs) in the reporting of violent events, and evaluates their relative strengths and weaknesses as compared to other means available. It seeks to understand how SMDT data are collated, how reliable the data are, and what practi
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