In an online event on 3 May, we'll be joined by Leah Jerop komen,(PhD) for a discussion on mobile telephony, mBanking, and gender inequality in the lives of married women in western rural Kenya. Join us online at 2pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-event…

NEW #JMCQReview 🚨 In their collection, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales reflect the "disparate experiences of how misinformation, disinformation and fake news manifests itself in the global South." A must-read JMCQ review by Trust Matsilele journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… ICD

Our March book reviews include The Content of Our Caricature by Rebecca Wanzo, Mobility, Mobilization and Counter/Insurgency by Daniel Agbiboa, On Postman War by Mike Hills, Influencer, edited by T. Bettina Cornwell & Helen Katz, Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai,

UIowa SJMC Frankline Matanji And we won a top poster award!🎉🥇 Dani Madrid-Morales

Congratulations to Melissa Tully, Dani Madrid-Morales, Frankline Matanji, the #ICA23 Top Faculty Poster Award for today for their poster, “Scams as “Everyday Misinformation”: A Computational Analysis of Financial Complaints on Social Media in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.”

Dani Madrid-Morales taught the Winter School participants how to use Lexos for basic textual analysis. Lexos is a web-based tool that scrapes digitized texts and assists with analysis. #digimethods2023

🏫 [BLOG] Simply teaching #medialiteracy is not enough in today’s online environment. Africa Check has created #factchecking resources for teachers that directly target harmful information. africacheck.info/school_literacy ISASA Equal Education JET Education Services

.Herman Wasserman & Dani Madrid-Morales’s research made it clear that simply teaching learners media literacy – which typically includes critical reading of media texts, understanding the relationship between media and audiences & knowing how the media production process works – is not enough.

CALL FOR PAPERS: submissions for the next ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference are now open! We will be proudly hosting the conference this year, which focuses on the theme of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in and through Journalism. More: sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/abo…

🗒️Apunta en tu agenda: El 27 de septiembre volvemos a CaixaForum, en Madrid, de la mano de Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación, European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 y Fundación Anesvad para juntarnos, reflexionar, proponer y afinar y cambiar narrativas periodísticas sobre el continente africano.

Meet the School of Journalism, Media and Communication. We're changing our name to better reflect the breadth of teaching and research we do, as well as the ever-changing nature of our industry. Read more: sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/new…

La convocatoria de los II Premios África Mundi está abierta. Hay 7 categorías con un premio de 500€ cada una y un evento en Madrid el 17 de enero para la entrega de premios. Buscamos poner en valor el periodismo en español sobre África. Preséntate aquí africamundi.substack.com/p/convocatoria…

In our presentation at ICA in Africa today, ⁦Dani Madrid-Morales⁩ gives an overview of the work we have done on disinformation in Africa over the past few years. ⁦DisinfoAfrica⁩

Is the gap between #Africa and the West expanding? A new ISPI Report investigates the nature and reasons for the growing anti-Western sentiment in sub-Saharan Africa, combining an analysis of the current international context with a long-term perspective. ISPI Report →

The chapter Dani Madrid-Morales and I wrote for this report considers the “Rise of the Rest” in Global Media and Competition Over News Narratives in Africa. Download the report at ispionline.it/en/publication…

🚨🚨Recruiting post-docs (or pre-docs)! Come work with me, Paul Atwell, Fernando Mello and others IC3JM · Carlos III - Juan March Institute and pimlab.org in Madrid (UC3M)! India and/or CSS skills especially welcome this year, tho a diversity of profiles suitable. tinyurl.com/ypuc75r8

🇱🇹PR Rytis Paulauskas opened a seminar organized by 🇱🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺 on #Russia's influence operations. Thank to Professors Corneliu Bjola. & Dani Madrid-Morales for valuable insights on Russia's strategic objectives and tools,including the use of Wagner's Group in spreading Kremlin's political narrative.

How does China promote Russian narratives across sub-Saharan Africa? Dr Dani Madrid-Morales comments on the problems encountered as a result of StarTimes setting up digital TV across the African continent. dfrlab.org/2024/06/12/chi…

"We found that most people believed common Russian & Chinese strategic #disinformation narratives to be true. The main reason they did so was anti-US sentiment." Dani Madrid-Morales & co-authors comment on disinformation in Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa & Zambia. theconversation.com/chinese-and-ru…