This Special Collection “Forced migration and digital connectivity in (to) Europe” historicizes,
contextualizes, empirically grounds, and conceptually reflects on the impact of digital …

The moral panic about 'fake news' internationally has formed the backdrop for debates about
the impact of the spread of similar fabrications on politics in South Africa. News–whether …

This paper calls for an epistemic disobedience in privacy studies by decolonizing the
approach to privacy. As technology companies expand their reach worldwide, the notion of …

Mbembe, 2015 Mbembe, Achille. 2015.“Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the
Archive”. https://wiser. wits. ac. za/system/files/Achille% 20Mbembe% 20 …

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the
continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both …

Predictive language technologies–such as Google Search's Autocomplete–constitute forms
of algorithmic power that reflect and compound global power imbalances between Western …

A growing body of work in journalism studies focuses on understanding audiences'
relationship with news and misinformation. This article adds to this area of inquiry by …

The increase in access to affordable mobile technologies has created an interesting,
sometimes complicated, relationship between Internet users and the Kenyan government …

This book offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital
participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and …

The efficacy of digital media on politics, and society at large, has long been a subject of
intense scholarly debate. This paper examines the democratisation potential of social media …