This week, we are speaking to Samuel Olaniran, and Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, who have worked on the article, “Demystifying the COVID-19 infodemic: Conspiracies, context and the agency of users,” which has just been published in Social Media & Society. 

Samuel Olaniran is a PhD Candidate in the department of media studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, and has lectured at Plateau State University in Nigeria. His research focuses on digital dis/misinformation, social media and politics, computational propaganda and digital culture. 

Dr Stephanie Diepeveen is a Research Fellow at ODI and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she also obtained a PhD in Politics and International Studies. Her work focuses on the social and political implications of the increasingly digital world.

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This week we are joined by Paromita Vohra to talk about her platform, Agents of Ishq. Paromita is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture. It spans many forms, including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. She is the founder of Agents of Ishq, a multi-media online project about sex education and sexual culture in India which platforms discussions and materials around sex, love and desire.

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This week we are joined by Darlington Akogo to speak about Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare. Darlington Akogo is the Founder and Director of Artificial Intelligence at GUDRA, and its subsidiaries; including minoHealth, an AI Healthtech company and minoHealth AI Lab, an AI Healthcare, Biotech and Biomedical Research Lab.

Darlington is the also lead for TG-AI4 Radiology under the United Nations ITU and World Health Organization's Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (AI4H). He is also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to West Africa at AI Expo Africa, the largest business focused AI community in Africa. He is a member of MIT Tech Review Global Panel, and he's a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum's initiative.

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This week we are joined by Hannah Metcalfe to speak about Mobile for Development in Tanzania. Hannah has had an 8 year career in mobile for development and technology for development. Since 2017 she has been working for Viamo, and since 2019 she has been the Country Director in Tanzania. Viamo is a technology for development organisation with a platform capable of reaching anyone in the world, with a mobile phone. Viamo partners with a wide range of NGOs and other organisations. They can tailor excellent behaviour change communication campaigns, hotlines, infolines and subscription services, as well as providing the data analysis and visualisation to go with it.

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On this episode we are speaking to Tais Koshino and Amelie Maia, co-founders of the DiverseNFTArt initiative which aims to provide a community for Women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ NFT artists. Tais Koshino is a digital artist from Brazil whose work is featured on Hic et Nunc . Amelie Maia is an artist and senior creative developer currently based in Toronto, Canada.

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This week, we are speaking to Bhavjit Singh, the founder of the Twitter account @Tractor2twitr. The account was set up to support the Indian Farmers’ Protests and counter the narrative being promoted by the mainstream media and the IT cells of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party led by President Narendra Modi. It currently has over 50,000 followers and is run by several hundred volunteers across the globe.

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This week we are joined by Dr. Matti Pohjonen to speak about Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online. For the past 10 years, Matti has developed critical-comparative research approaches for understanding digital cultures globally. This has included work on international news and blogging in India, mobile technology in East Africa, and exploring new methods in “big data” analysis and artificial intelligence for digital media research. Matti has taught at SOAS in Global Media & Post National Communication; he is now a researcher at the University of Helsinki where he is working on global and comparative dimensions of platform accountability.

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This week we are joined by Thaysa Costa do Nascimento to speak about Social Transgressions & the Digital Influencer Trajectory in Brazil. Thaysa is a Doctoral student in Business Administration at COPPEAD Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her phD research focuses on influencers and branding within the theme of consumer behavior focused on culture and consumption. She also works as a researcher at COPPEAD Center for Consumer Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, working on topics related to digital influencers, social media, human brands and consumer communities. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor in Defense and International Strategic Management.

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This week we are speaking to Dr. Admire Mare on Social Media & the Changing Election Landscape in Zimbabwe. Dr. Mare is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Humanities. His research interests include analyzing the complex intersection between technology and society, people-centred social policies in the global South, digital journalism, social media and politics, media and democracy, media and conflict and the role of artificial intelligence in changing African newsrooms. He currently leads the international research project Social Media, Misinformation and Elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe (SoMeKeZi) funded by the Social Science Research Council (2019-2021). He is a member of the Africa Media Salon and serves on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism, African Journalism Studies and Communicare.

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This week, we are speaking to Craig Ryder, a PhD researcher at SOAS, University of London on Truth, Information & Synthetic Realities in Sri Lanka. Craig is a digital anthropologist concerned with disinformation, social media and the nascent technology of synthetic media. Building on his journalism experience in Sri Lanka, Craig’s PhD research looks to not only understand the impact of fake news on democracy but how communities are mitigating its effect.

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