Global Digital Futures
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCutting edge digital media and technology conversations, with a Global South focus.
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Demystifying Conspiracies & Infodemics
September 29, 2021 09:53 - 35 minutes - 80.3 MBThis 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...
Multiple Feminisms, Multiple Internets
September 17, 2021 08:13 - 49 minutes - 113 MBThis 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. Host & Produ...
Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare
September 01, 2021 17:58 - 40 minutes - 93.2 MBThis 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). ...
Mobile for Development in Tanzania
August 18, 2021 17:44 - 35 minutes - 47.9 MBThis 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 tai...
NFTs & Digital Art Production
August 04, 2021 15:58 - 48 minutes - 111 MBOn 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. Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera Researcher: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin Editor: Eliza Bacon Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare Theme Musi...
Online Activism & Digital Freedom
July 07, 2021 15:16 - 40 minutes - 93.4 MBThis 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 Bhranái...
Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online
June 23, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutes - 88.4 MBThis 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 Nationa...
Social Transgressions & the Digital Influencer Trajectory in Brazil
June 09, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 70 MBThis 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 Univer...
Social Media & the Changing Election Landscape in Zimbabwe
May 26, 2021 15:45 - 32 minutes - 73.4 MBThis 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, digit...
Truth, Information & Synthetic Realities in Sri Lanka
May 12, 2021 12:29 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MBThis 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 Ed...
Media Spectacle & Democracy in the Philippines
October 30, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week, we are speaking to the esteemed journalist Veronica Pedrosa on Media Spectacle & Democracy in the Philippines. Veronica is an award-winning presenter with experience in news reporting, production and presenting. As a journalist she has worked at Al Jazeera English, CNN International, BBC World News, and BBC World Service. With her deep knowledge about global issues, Veronica has been invited to moderate panel discussions by the United Nations, the Red Cross Movement, and the Eur...
What AI Told Us About Covid-19
October 10, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBThis week, we are speaking to Quilt.AI Founder and Chief Product Officer, Dr. Angad Chowdhry on What AI Told Us About COVID-19. Quilt.AI describe the internet as “a repository of human behaviour, opinions, preferences, and social interactions.” Their team of Anthropologists, semioticians, designers, engineers, data scientists and mathematicians are using these digital fragments to understand people and culture at scale. They have been doing some fascinating work, including research on c...
Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa
September 25, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBThis week we are joined by Amine Ghoulidi to speak about Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa. Amine is a researcher at King’s College London currently focusing on European security. A career political risk consultant, Amine advises leading multinational corporations on reputational and security risks particularly linked to their operations in Africa and the Middle East. He was previously part of PwC’s Strategic Threat Management team based in Washington, DC where he as...
Designing Chatbots for Social Development
September 11, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MBThis week we are joined by Isabelle Amazon-Brown to speak about Designing Chatbots for Social Development. With ten years experience in 'mobiles for development', working on projects funded by UNICEF, DfID, USAID and the World Bank . She started out running and designing feature-phone friendly mobile sites, but in the past few years has been working on chatbots. She's “passionately jaded” about digital development, having seen more projects “fail” than succeed, but still believes in the tran...
The Politics of Language Online
August 28, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 44 MBThis week, we are speaking to Marie Thaut, a student at SOAS. A conversation we had at one of the Coding Club workshops presented the perfect opportunity to discuss The Politics of Language Online. There are more than 7,000 languages on Earth, yet half of the world’s 7.6 billion people speak just 24 of them, and 95 percent speak just 400 of them. That leaves five percent of the global population spread across 6,600 different languages, hundreds of them now spoken by less than ten people. Ma...
Landscapes of Journalistic Practice in the Middle East
August 14, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week we are joined by Aida Al-Kaisy to speak about Landscapes of Journalistic Practice in the Middle East. Aida is a Media Reform Advisor and has worked extensively on media development projects across the MENA region including in Iraq, Palestine and Jordan. She is currently working on a number of projects, focusing on issues related to youth engagement in media, media in conflict, social cohesion and the media and the development of independent media platforms in MENA amongst other t...
Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South
August 23, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes - 60.8 MBThis week we are joined by Dr. Rainer Tan to speak about Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South. Rainer is Swiss, Malaysian and Canadian. He grew up in Canada and finished med school at the university of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2014. He was the Field Coordinator in Tanzania for the NGO Canada Africa Community Health Alliance, and is now in residency training for a specialisation in Tropical Medicine, while completing a Clinical Research Fellowship for a PhD in Clinical Epidem...
Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China
August 02, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 94.3 MBThis week, we welcome Zhang Leilei to speak about Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China. The media and information landscapes in China present unique challenges for social activism. Zhang Leilei is a Chinese feminist activist whose strategic campaigns have effected profound change, but not without considerable difficulty and threat to her livelihood. Leilei is the founder of Chinese group F Feminists in Guangzhou and she is the principle organiser and participator of the Chin...
Media for Development in Bangladesh
July 19, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 82.9 MBThis week we are speaking with BBC Media Action Bangladesh about Media for Development in Bangladesh. Joining us is Richard Lace, the Country Director in Bangladesh. Richard has worked in media and development for 15 years, in Europe and Africa as well as Bangladesh. He has been leading the BBC Media Action office in Bangladesh since early 2014, and leads a team of 80 staff to deliver media and communications projects that aim to improve family health, enable people hold their leaders acco...
The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict
June 21, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes - 65.5 MBThis week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar’s 2010 general election and met with oppos...
Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya
June 07, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes - 68.7 MBThis week, we welcome Dr. Ronda Zelezny-Green to speak about Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya. Ronda is a mobile technologist, educator, and researcher, whose professional experience spans the public, private, and civil society sectors. She specialises in educational technology (especially mobile learning), gender, teaching and training, and policy advice. Ronda regularly publishes in academic forums, and is globally recognised as the world’s foremost expert in gender and mo...
Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives
May 03, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week, we welcome Dr. Dounia Mahlouly to speak about Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives. Dr. Mahlouly is lecturing at SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. She conducted her PhD research at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London, as part of the European consortium VOX-Pol. Her research interests are in the area of Media Studies and Political Communication. Her work ...
Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea
March 22, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes - 60.5 MBThis week, we welcome Dr. Yenn Lee, to speak about Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea. Yenn is an active researcher in the field of digital culture and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. At SOAS she also designs and delivers an institution-wide training programme for doctoral researchers. In addition to providing courses and workshops on research methods and skills, both online and offline, she is responsible for a range of other tasks to enhance postgraduate r...
AI for Social Good
March 08, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes - 79.9 MBThis week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.AI, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.AI he is working on integrating the latest advances in cogni...
World Radio Day 2019 Special with RadioActive
February 22, 2019 04:00 - 23 minutes - 54.1 MBListen to our World Radio Day Special with Max Graef of Radioactive. Max started RadioActive in 2004 to support independent radio. They provide technical assistance and equipment to independent radio stations around the world, and believe in the power of radio as a tool for communication, sharing information and facilitating positive change. Their work includes technical services for radio stations and studios – including technical advice and feasibility studies, studio design and installati...
Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries
February 08, 2019 04:00 - 24 minutes - 55.9 MBThis week we speak about Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries. a key focus for the Centre for Global Finance at SOAS, run by Professor Victor Murinde. Professor Victor Murinde is a financial economist, with more than 25 years’ expertise, mainly in academia, policy and consultancy roles for governments and leading international organisation. He was the founding Director of African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014). Professor Murinde is ...
Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online
January 25, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes - 65 MBThis week we have 2 guests in the studio to talk about Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online. Following the repealing of section 377 in India. A law which gives hope for LGBT communities by making homophobia illegal. In this episode we explore the realities and how queer identity can exist online. Mayur Suresh is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS. In 2016, he was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck for this thesis titled ‘Terrorist’ lives in Delhi’s courts: An ethnography of the legal worlds ...
Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship
January 12, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 83.1 MBThis week we are speaking with 2 SOAS students from Egypt about Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship. Hossam Fazulla is a researcher and writer from Cairo. He has spent the last 7 years bridging the gap between art and human rights as Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and as a former trainer at Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. Fazulla’s work focuses on cultural policies and the contemporary Egyptian c...
Who Should Have The Right to Watch Over You?
December 14, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes - 63.5 MBThis week we are speaking with Griff Ferris from Big Brother Watch about exactly Who Should Have The Right To Watch Over You? Big Brother Watch aims to expose and challenge threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Their work includes research around facial recognition and biometrics, access to communications data, and digital surveillance. Their most recent campaign #FREESPEECHONLINE focuses on the risks of censorship ...
Cultural Nuances & India’s Digital Economy
November 30, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBWe speak with Soum Paul about Cultural Nuances & India’s Digital Economy. Soum is the CoFounder and CEO of Homescreen Network, a television network venture built for the smartphone era. Over the last two decades, he’s played instrumental roles in a series of disruptive startups - Knowlarity, State.com, Mixercast. He’s also a writer, and his books Topper Prepares andFlight of the Unicorns have both been published by Harper Collins India. When in between projects, he spends his time trotting t...
Research & Technology in Hard to Reach Locations
November 16, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes - 87.6 MBWe speak with Dr. Matti Pohjonen about Research & Technology in Hard to Reach Locations. Matti is an academic at the intersection of digital anthropology, philosophy and data science. His work developing innovative research methods for hard-to-reach populations has taken him from Kenya and Ethiopia, to India. Now back at SOAS he is the Convenor of MA Global Media & Post National Communications course, and a Lecturer in Global Digital Media. Discover more on our website here. Twitter: @gl...