About the event
This conference creates a space for researchers to build on previous scholarly work and to share, discuss and debate contemporary regulatory interventions in media technologies across Africa in attempts to regulate disruption, and their impact on societies.
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Conference Organisers
Vincent Obia Conference Organiser Vincent is a Commonwealth PhD Researcher of Media at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on new media regulation in Global South with Nigeria as a case study. He is also the Co-Editor of Makings Journal and the Lead Communication Officer for MeCCSA-PGN.    Sulayman Bah Conference Organiser Sulayman is a co-organiser of the 2020 Regulating African Digital Media Conference. He is a PhD Researcher in the School of Media, Birmingham City University. His research centres on postcolonialism and media law in The Gambia. Yemisi Akinbobola Conference Organiser Yemisi is an award-winning journalist, academic, and co-founder of African Women in the Media (AWiM). Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University where she is a Senior Lecturer and International Research Partnership Manager. She has published research on women’s rights and African feminism, and journalism and digital public spheres. Oliver Carter Conference Organiser Oliver is a Reader in Creative Economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research focuses on alternative economies of cultural production; informal forms of industry that are often removed from a formal cultural industries discourse. He is the author of the monograph Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018. |