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Digital Diasporas, Messaging Apps and the Transnational Disinformation Threats
Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world
25 minutes
9 months ago
Digital Diasporas, Messaging Apps and the Transnational Disinformation Threats
In this episode of Human Rights Talks, Shelly Ghai Bajaj (University of Waterloo) talks about the use of chat apps by diaspora communities in Canada. Shelly explores the flow, spread, and transfer of mis/disinformation on private chat and closed direct messaging apps among ethnocultural diasporic communities. Whether its about public health or politics, transnational disinformation creates multiple challenges for communities and for democracy.
Shelly Ghai Bajaj (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2022) is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Bessma Momani on projects relating to identity, democracy, disinformation, and social media. She studies comparative politics of both developing and advanced industrial democracies and is interested in the politics of identity and ethnonationalist mobilization, political parties and party strategy, the use of social media by political actors, and South Asian politics
Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world
Talking to human rights leaders, re-energizing the international human rights community during a time of upheaval
