communication
Sjoerd Sijsma
Sjoerd Sijsma is a professional film maker and photographer. He trains and coaches the CTD team on audiovisual matters. As member of the team, he will produce a documentary on ‘the art of communication’, exploring who is allowed to communicate, how and when during times of duress. Together withRead More
About the author: André Shamba
Diplômé (Bac+5) en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication de l‘Université de Kinshasa en République Démocratique du Congo. Journaliste depuis une douzaine d’années dans la presse écrite, audiovisuelle – dont près d’une dizaine à la Radio Okapi, la Radio des Nations-Unies cogérée avec laRead More
Panel 4. Duress and (digital) silence
Chair and introduction: Jonna Both Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa – Performing speech and silence in rebel-held Côte d’Ivoire Christian Kitenge Wa Kitenge – Un téléphone mobile sans réseau téléphonique? « Silences » et connexion sous contraintes des problèmes d’infrastructures dans le sud-est du Congo Inge Butter –Read More
Panel 3. Virtual Communities: Resistance
Chair and introduction: Sylvie Ayimpam Hoinathy Remadji – De la virtualité comme nouveau ressort de la résistance sociale au Tchad? Katrien Pype – Aesthetics of Provocation and Mobilization in the Combattants’ Digital Activism (N)Ethnographic Notes on Media & Conflict Jean Eric Bitang – Réseaux sociauxRead More
Panel 2. Virtual Communities: Empowerment
Chair and introduction: Marie-Soleil Frère Sylvie Ayimpam & Olivier Kahol – Se connecter par la mobilité de l’argent : contraintes et usages du Mobile Banking dans le petit commerce à distance Michel Bisa Kibul & Sylvie Ayimpam – Un contexte de contrainte par excellence ?Read More
Welcome to the CTD Conference live blog!
The live blog covered the events of the CTD end conference and the festival N’djam s’enflamme en slam, who took place in N’Djamena between the 23rd and the 29th of October 2017. The two events happened simultaneously and were an extraordinary chance for an exchange between academiaRead More
PhD defense Souleymane Abdoulaye Adoum, 4 July 2017
On 4 July 2017, Souleymane Abdoulaye Adoum will defend his dissertation: Communication and Violence in Chad : the case of Moyen-Chari and the Guera (1900-2010) Communication et Violences au Tchad: Le cas du Moyen-Chari et du Guera (1900-2010) The political history of Chad is characterizedRead More
Paper – Mobile pastoralists in Central and West Africa: Between conflict, mobile telephony and (im)mobility
CTD project leader Mirjam de Bruijn, PhD researchers Adamou Amadou and Boukary Sangaré, and associate PhD researcher Elie Lewa Doksala wrote the paper ‘Mobile pastoralists in Central and West Africa: between conflict, mobile telephony and (im)mobility’ for The Future of Pastoralism, Revue scientifique et technique (InternationalRead More
Book chapter – The Routledge Companion to digital ethnography
Mirjam de Bruijn wrote a chapter for The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell (New York: Routledge, 2017): ‘Mediated Political Agency in Contested Africa’. From the Introduction of the chapter: “This chapter scrutinizes the role of smallRead More
Prof. dr. Mirjam de Bruijn
Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies. She focuses on the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology. Mirjam is an Africanist with a focus on West and Central Africa. She did,Read More