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Global Digital Futures: Demystifying Conspiracies & Infodemics SOAS Radio

    • Technology

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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Deirbhile Ni Bhranain
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-31-demystifying-conspiracies
Twitter: @global_futures
Instagram: @global_futures
YouTube: Global Digital Futures
Subscribe to our newsletter on Substack: https://globaldigitalfutures.substack.com/welcome

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.

Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Deirbhile Ni Bhranain
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-31-demystifying-conspiracies
Twitter: @global_futures
Instagram: @global_futures
YouTube: Global Digital Futures
Subscribe to our newsletter on Substack: https://globaldigitalfutures.substack.com/welcome

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