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Matti Pohjonen (PhD, SOAS, UK) is a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH), University of Helsinki. He is a digital anthropologist whose research is poised between media studies, philosophy and data science.
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publication reflection

Seeing things the other way around? Researching global conspiracies during the so-called COVID-19 infodemic

Can research produced in one part of the world sufficiently explain what happens in another part of the world? Can we even talk about (digital) media theory without first trying to situate it somewhere  – geographically, culturally and historically? This blog post discusses these fundamental questions in the context of researching the COVID-19  “infodemic” in Africa.