Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
 

Dr. Matti Pohjonen

Matti Pohjonen is a digital anthropologist and visual artist who works at the intersection of media studies, philosophy and data science. His diverse research interests have revolved around developing critical practice-based research approaches and methodologies to understand digital cultures in especially comparative global contexts. This has included work on blogging cultures in India, developing new data analysis methods using interactive radio and SMS for researching hard-to-reach populations in East Africa, comparative research on online extreme speech in Ethiopia and work on the ethical and philosophical questions raised by the growing use of “Big Data” and AI as forms of knowledge production. 

He received his MA and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Global Digital Media (2018-2020), Senior Teaching Fellow (2006-2009) an AHRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013). He was also previously a Researcher for the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCLMP), at the University of Oxford (2013-2016), a Research Fellow (2015-2016) for the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, and a Visiting Research Fellow (2017) at the Centre for Media and Communication (ZeMKI), at the University of Bremen. His work as a Senior Researcher (2016-2017) for Africa’s Voices Foundation, a not-for-profit research organisation launched out of University of Cambridge, was dedicated to developing innovative research and data analysis methods for hard-to-reach populations in East Africa. 

He currently works for the Finnish Academy-funded project Media platforms and social accountability: Dynamics, practices and discourses (MAPS), looking at global debates on digital platform accountability in especially small and marginal countries and runs a science-arts project exploring media representations of COVID-19 through the use of creative AI.

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