AI Poses Threats to Education, Ethics and Eureka Moments (2024)
The only way to know if and how to adopt generative AI into our teaching and research is through openly deliberating about its impact on our main values.
Publication Type: Articles
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa (2022)
In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Witnessing: Iteration and Social Change (2022)
Thinking of digital witnessing as iteration, or collaborative communication for change, allows us to see how power inflects who and what are— and are not— witnessed.
Towards a Terrestrial Internet: re-imagining digital networks from the ground up (2022)
The expansion of digital infrastructure is having material and concrete impacts on society and the environment. This phenomenon is rendering obsolete binary distinctions between the “physical” and the “virtual”…
Addressing Ethical Gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding Care and Capabilities
This paper identifies persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
When friction becomes the norm: Antagonism, discourse and planetary data turbulence (2022)
The ideal of unfettered data circulation has fallen into crisis.
Territories of data: ontological divergences in the growth of data infrastructure (2022)
The construction of observatories in the Atacama Desert has prompted actors in Chile to envision initiatives for promoting the expansion of data infrastructure.
Lockdowns, Lives and Livelihoods: COVID-19, Public Health and Conflict Affected Populations (2021)
A novel remote qualitative research tool, Katikati, is used to engage with conflict-affected communities in Somalia on their experiences of a COVID-19 lockdown to help shape pandemic response.
The Coloniality of Collaboration: sources of epistemic obedience in data intensive astronomy in Chile…
Data collaborations have gained currency over the last decade as a means for data- and skills-poor actors to thrive as a fourth paradigm takes hold in the sciences.
Media and Digital Technologies for Mixed Methods Research in Public Health Emergencies Such as…
A multimethod evaluative study in Somalia of interactive radio-SMS highlights its potential as a mixed methods social research capability in low and middle income countries during health emergencies.
Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa…
Across Africa, interactive radio shows are vibrant ‘convened social spaces’ for authorities and citizens to engage on public affairs; media presenters play crucial roles in shaping citizen engagement.
Rethinking Publics in Africa in a Digital Age (2019)
The diverse and vibrant uses of new digital technologies across eastern Africa provide fresh impetus to rethink the concept of ‘publics’ from a distinctly African vantage point.