May 18th focus seminar — an update

Please join in for the May 18th seminar, where we pay attention to the current media situation in Kenya. Veteran journalism educator Kåre Melhus will speak on the matter, the presentation shaped as a conversation and an interview by Oddgeir Tveiten. The second half of the seminar will again address the book plans previously announced.

Seminar link:
https://uiano.zoom.us/j/68557766474?pwd=VDg3MDJxaHQwc0xPSm1FRTRWWGV0dz09

In that context, please note these references posed in the twitter feed on our website. Two highly relevant articles from the New York Times and Reuters recently:

Reporter Max Fischer, referring to Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth College political scientist:

• We are in an era of endemic misinformation — and outright disinformation. Plenty of bad actors are helping the trend along. But the real drivers, some experts believe, are social and psychological forces that make people prone to sharing and believing misinformation in the first place. And those forces are on the rise.

Benon Herbert Oliuka, Reuters institute for journalism

• In mid-September 2018, Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa was paralysed by a spate of ethnic protests that culminated in the killing of 23 people. The public show of dissent, smothered by the military, fractured a burgeoning attempt by the country’s new reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to reconcile a nation deeply divided along ethnic lines. 

Please send an email to Abit Hoxha or Oddgeir  Tveiten if you plan to join the seminar:

abit.hoxha@uia.no
oddgeir.tveiten@uia.no