Speak Up and Educate
#defyhatenow seeks to support those voices acting against the conflict to go ‘viral’ within and outside the country – bringing the diaspora into the online peace building framework, bridging gaps of knowledge and awareness of social media mechanisms between those with access to technology and those without.
Diaspora Social Media Engagement Research Project
/in Current Research, Research, Social Media Analysis, Monitoring and Citizen DataSummary of Project: Increased access to the Internet has afforded people new ways of association, assembly and expression. This has in turn shaped the public sphere and civic actions. In this research project, defyhatenow examines how increased social media use by South Sudanese in the diaspora shapes public opinion in an ever-shrinking civic space in […]
Conflict and Connectivity in South Sudan Research Project
/in Current Research, ResearchSummary of Project: This project broadly examines the relationship between conflict and connectivity in South Sudan; the effect of conflict on connectivity and the ways in which phone and Internet connectivity influence conflict. It will focus on how people access public information and how they communicate with each other during conflict and in the absence […]