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Brian Ekdale

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Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Iowa

There’s a growing awareness that Cambridge Analytica harnessed social media and personal data to influence elections. Shutterstock

January 9, 2020

How the Nigerian and Kenyan media handled Cambridge Analytica

Brian Ekdale, University of Iowa and Melissa Tully, University of Iowa

What role do foreign actors play in African elections? Cambridge Analytica’s case sheds some light.

A train passes through the Kibera slum of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Representations of Africa tend to focus on these kinds of depictions. Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi

October 7, 2015

Ordinary people’s stories can change the world’s views about Africa

Brian Ekdale, University of Iowa

For decades, media representations of African poverty have been of disease, disaster, conflict, and poverty and have coloured how the rest of the world views Africa.

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