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== Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute https://www.torontosri.ca/ The University of Toronto Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 https://ictd.org/ictd2022/

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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joyojeet Pal joyojeet@gmail.com Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 11:28 PM Subject: Fwd: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa To: Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu, Aditya Vashistha < adityav@cornell.edu>, Kurtis Heimerl kheimerl@cs.washington.edu, Neha Kumar neha.kumar@gatech.edu, Nicola Dell nixdell@cornell.edu, Rajesh Veeraraghavan Rajesh.Veera@georgetown.edu, Priyank Chandra < priyank.chandra@utoronto.ca>

Hi folks, Here's a great event at Michigan that some of your students (and you!) may be interested in. Please consider forwarding to relevant mailing lists?

**** Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa

*April 7-8, 2022, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*

In Person at Room 2435, North Quad, 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, and available online through registration

9 AM – 5 PM, US Eastern Time

The University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on social media influencers at the University of Michigan, 2435 North Quad, on April 7-8, 2022, and will be available for remote participation for registered attendees. The event features a number of social media influencers, and those who study them, from two regions with the fastest growing social media user populations -- Continental Africa and South Asia.

The workshop brings together a range of professionals and scholars - dissidents, bureaucrats, artists, movie stars, comedians, commentators, and industry professionals to explore the ways in which social media influencing is changing social, political, and cultural engagements.

Registration is available for in-person and online attendance. For details and a list of confirmed speakers, please see here:

https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu/

The event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the School of Information, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.