Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users

Autor: Iginio Gagliardone, Stephanie Diepeveen, Kyle Findlay, Samuel Olaniran, Matti Pohjonen, Edwin Tallam

Publikováno v: Social Media + Society, Vol 7 (2021)

This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which has characterized most scholarship on the COVID-19 “infodemic,”

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The limits of publicity: Facebook and transformations of a public realm in Mombasa, Kenya

Autor: Stephanie Diepeveen

Publikováno v: Publics in Africa in a Digital Age ISBN: 9781003152446

Over the past decade, Kenyan citizens have actively engaged in public communication through digital media. With the growth of digital communication, questions arise about its effect on the nature and political significance of public discussion. Does

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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152446-10

Publics in Africa in a Digital Age

Autor: George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane, Stephanie Diepeveen, Sharath Srinivasan

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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152446

Searching for a New Kenya

Autor: Stephanie Diepeveen

Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and ho

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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919593

Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age

Autor: George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane, Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen

Publikováno v: Srinivasan, S, Diepeveen, S & Karekwaivanane, G 2019, ' Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age ', Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 2-17 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1547259

The digital transformations taking place across the African continent present an urgent need for fresh thinking in the study of publics. This introduction lays out the impetus and contribution of this Special Issue to such a rethinking of the study o

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https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1547259