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This podcast series will explore various potential channels of AMR spread in Sri Lanka with the focus on wildlife, socio-economic drivers and culture, based on the findings from our latest research projects.

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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera

Researcher: Eliza Bacon

Editor: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin

Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare

Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis

Discover more about this interview on our website here: https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-26-tractor2twitr-online-activism

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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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera

Researcher: Eliza Bacon

Editor: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin

Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare

Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis

Discover more about this interview on our website here: https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/extreme-speech-online

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In this follow-up to the Standing in the Sun episode, Paolo invites you to listen to a few more songs evoking the feeling of a sunny afternoon. The name of the episode is inspired by the wonderful song Onda (which means wave in Portuguese) of the amazing Brazilian musician Cassiano. Verão means summer in Portuguese, and so the title is "summer wave". In addition to referencing one of Brazil's greats in its title, this episode focuses mostly on the country's funk and soul scene from the 70s onwards with some intermissions from Rwanda, France and New York.

Dr Dafydd Fell is a Reader in Comparative Politics in our Department of Politics and International Studies, as well as Director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. A link to his new book, Taiwan's Green Parties, can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Taiwans-Green-Parties-Alternative-Politics-in-Taiwan/Fell/p/book/9780367650315

He is interviewed by Leon Kunz, a PhD candidate in our Department of Politics and International Studies.

Staff profiles:

Dafydd Fell: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30933.php

Leon Kunz: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff135860.php

Bollo Speaks is a collaboration between the SOAS Access, Participation and Student Success team, and community partner Bollo Brook Youth Centre. Each episode is created entirely by the young people, with conversations around Identity, perception and more, soundtracked by their own music, recorded at Bollo Brook's in-house studio.

In this episode, the young people of Bollo Brook discuss their experience of the lockdowns over the past year.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: anchor.fm/soasapss

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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera

Researcher: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin

Editor: Eliza Bacon

Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare

Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis

Discover more about this interview on our website https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-24-social-media-influencers-brazil.

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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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera

Editor: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin

Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare

Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis

Discover more about this interview on our website: www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-23-social-media-zim

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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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera

Editor: Eliza Bacon

Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare

Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis

Discover more about this interview on our website: https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-22-deep-fakes

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In this episode, SOAS' Amina Yaqin, reader in postcolonial literature, and Naomi Foyle, author of the Gaia Chronicles, discuss working together to facilitate decolonised representations of Muslims, particularly women, in Western fiction and culture.

They are interviewed by Professor Alison Scott Baumann.

Amina: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff32041.php

Naomi: https://www.naomifoyle.com/about/

Alison: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff105767.php