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Cyborg Methodologies: Rewriting the Role of Digital, Social and Mobile Media Technologies in the Production of Knowledge (2025)
Journal Article

The ubiquitous entanglement of digital, social and mobile media – and increasingly generative artificial intelligence – in everyday life is reconstituting us (and our methodologies) as cyborg. This paper sets out to explore how cyborg methodologies c... Read More about Cyborg Methodologies: Rewriting the Role of Digital, Social and Mobile Media Technologies in the Production of Knowledge.

Cursed Justice: Zambia's Witchcraft Trials and the Struggle for Evidence-Based Law (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

Dr Keith Silika discusses how admitting contested confessions and ritual objects challenge the norms of evidence-based justice—and why this could signal a dangerous precedent

03/04/2025 - Uppsala University Session 1 (2025)
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Research paper delivered by Jade Munslow Ong and Simon Stanton-Sharma

Followed by Visual text workshop delivered by Jade Munslow Ong
Number of students: 20

Data collected available via Figshare: Teacher Training Feedback

01/04/2025 - Katedralskolan Uppsala (2025)
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Morning Lecture delivered by Jade Munslow Ong on Postcolonialism and Marxism [Mine Boy]
Number of students: 17

Morning Lecture delivered by Keren Poliah on Postcolonialism and Feminism [Bessie Head's A Question of Power]
Number of students: 18... Read More about 01/04/2025 - Katedralskolan Uppsala.

03/04/2025 - Uppsala University Session 2 (2025)
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Research paper delivered by Jade Munslow Ong and Simon Stanton-Sharma

Followed by Video Essay workshop delivered by Simon Stanton-Sharma and Keren Poliah
Number of students: 7

Data collected available via Figshare: Teacher Training Feedback