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. |