Social Media, African Chiefs and New Experiments in Public Administration in Kenya

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• Dr. Duncan Omanga, Centre for African Studies and Wolfson Visiting Fellow 2015/16
• Wednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:00
• Combination Room, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Graham Allen.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Somewhat surprisingly local Chiefs near the city of Nakuru in Kenya use Twitter to perform various roles in the village. Even though most people own only simple mobile phones. In this talk, I reveal how Twitter is localised and adapted to communities and how this alters community policing, sociality, public participation and further allows other new kinds of experimentations.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term series.

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