Cutting edge digital media and technology conversations, with a Global South focus.
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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.
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17 Sept 2021
Multiple Feminisms, Multiple Internets
This week we are joined by Paromita Vohra (https://twitter.com/parodevi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) to talk about her platform, Agents of Ishq (http://agentsofishq.com/). 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 & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor: Deirbhile Ni Bhranain
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
Discover more about this interview on our website here (https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-30-feminisms-internets).
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1 Sept 2021
Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare
This 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 (https://www.gudra-studio.com/), and its subsidiaries; including minoHealth (https://www.minohealth.org/), 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) (https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/Pages/default.aspx). He is also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to West Africa at AI Expo Africa, the largest business focused AI community in Africa. He is a member of MIT Tech Review Global Panel, and he's a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum's initiative.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor & Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
Discover more about this interview on our website here (https://www.globaldigitalfutures.com/episode-29-ai-healthcare).
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