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Hello

A Bit About Me

I am a Sociologist interested in the intersection of digital technologies and the politics of knowledge production.

Publications

Alakitan, M. T. (2025). Redefining social media influencership through followership building. Platforms & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251394250


Alakitan, M., & Makinde, E. (2024). Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria. Policy & Internet. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.416


Alakitan, M. (2023, October 27). Are current AI regulations enough to protect Social Media Influencers? Dataphyte. https://dataphyte.com/topic/are-current-ai-regulations-enough-to-protect-social-media-influencers

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Alakitan, M. (2023, October 27). Why are Nigerians leaving and what can the Government do? Dataphyte. 

https://dataphyte.com/topic/economy/why-are-nigerians-leaving-and-what-can-the-government-do


Alakitan, M. (2023). Bans, Gender, Unpaid Labour and Surveillance: Precarities of Nigerian Twitter Influencer Entrepreneurship. In Book of Abstracts XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (pp. 19).    


Alakitan, M. (2023). Ethics, Context and Fabrication: Doing Social Media Ethnography in Nigeria. In Book of Abstracts XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (pp. 19).

Contributions

[External Contributor] Mansell, R., Durach, F., Kettemann, M. C., Lenoir, T., Tripathi, G. P., & Tucker, E. (2025). Information ecosystems and troubled democracy: a global synthesis of the state of knowledge on news media, AI and data governance.

 

[External Contributor] Where have all the Workers Gone? Labor and Work in Ghana, 1951-2010. https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/359256/22-ahrc-celebration-ghana.pdf

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