In the Shadow of the Global North

In the talk titled “In the Shadow of the Global North”, Dr. Wahutu will speak about how African journalists engage in “self-writing” within the global journalism field. His talk will center around how this “self-writing” unfolded during the courage of the Darfur atrocities by several African countries, focusing on how questions of identity, colonization, and journalistic norms all converge to questions of what it means to be African in the Postcolony.

Bio
j. Siguru Wahutu is a media sociologist, with an emphasis on genocide, mass violence, and ethnicity in sub-Saharan Africa.  His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on the media representations of human rights violations, global and transnational news flows, postcolonial land claims, and the political economy of international media, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. When not studying media and genocide, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project currently under contract with MIT Press. He is currently an Assistant Professor at New York University's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies both at Harvard University.