News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public

Chonka, Peter

doi:10.1080/17531055.2018.1548210

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“…Our experimentation was not premised on the lack of indigenous language content online in East Africa. Instead, our case studies highlight how users in and beyond the region are using languages such as Amharic, Somali and Kiswahili to search for content that exists in these languages -and that which our previous research has demonstrated contributes to East Africa's vibrant multilingual digital publics (Chonka, 2019;Diepeveen, 2021).…”

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“…There are various minoritised languages spoken within Somalia and regional variations in northern and southern Maxaa tiri. Nonetheless, this ‘standard’ Somali is widely understood across the politically fragmented territories and is used across global Somali media networks (Chonka, 2019). Somali orthography uses a Latin script convenient for devices and platforms designed in and for other global markets.…”

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Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet

Chonka

Diepeveen

Haile

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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Predictive language technologies – such as Google Search’s Autocomplete – constitute forms of algorithmic power that reflect and compound global power imbalances between Western technology companies and multilingual Internet users in the global South. Increasing attention is being paid to predictive language technologies and their impacts on individual users and public discourse. However, there is a lack of scholarship on how such technologies interact with African languages. Addressing this gap, the article presents data from experimentation with autocomplete predictions/suggestions for gendered or politicised keywords in Amharic, Kiswahili and Somali. It demonstrates that autocomplete functions for these languages and how users may be exposed to harmful content due to an apparent lack of filtering of problematic ‘predictions’. Drawing on debates on algorithmic power and digital colonialism, the article demonstrates that global power imbalances manifest here not through a lack of online African indigenous language content, but rather in regard to the moderation of content across diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. This raises dilemmas for actors invested in the multilingual Internet between risks of digital surveillance and effective platform oversight, which could prevent algorithmic harms to users engaging with platforms in a myriad of languages and diverse socio-cultural and political environments.

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Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet

Chonka

Diepeveen

Haile

2022

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“…Competition among companies gradually depends on the capacity of the company to continue to innovate cost-effectively against the background of the globalization economy, rapid technological developments, and industrial convergence (Potts, 2018). Government support for corporate research and development (R&D) is the main incentive to encourage innovation in company performance (Chonka, 2019). Proposition one: Successful governance innovation is determined at least by models of government expenditure, government demand, government entities, and government information.…”

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Government Innovation in Social Sciences: A Literature Review

Keumala

Pribadi

2021

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many countries for influencing public sector reform. Government policy has also attracted attention from academia as a modern concept of governance. This study aims to understand issue innovation in government perspective. This study reviewed the literature of an article published in the social sciences through the NVivo analysis tool. This study indicates that the main issues in government innovation are public, actors, politics, policies, and institutions. This study also finds that government innovation can be used for decision making and increasing organizational capacity. In addition, it can also be used to improve democratic institutions and increase organizational. This article contributions is provide new topic concerning government innovation in the future.

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“…Such contrasts caution against generalizations of the role of the diaspora in processes of state building and imaginations of self‐determination in the Somali Horn. Nonetheless, the globalized Somali‐language digital media (epitomized by multiple networks of online debate and satellite TV channels consumed across Somalia but produced abroad) contributes to the rearticulation of transnational ideas of Soomaalinimo across a global linguistically defined audience (Chonka, 2019b). In this regard, the digitally networked diaspora has significantly expanded and internationalized the arena in which debates around Somali self‐determination take place.…”

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Self‐determination and a shattered star: Statehood and national identity in the Somali Horn of Africa

Chonka

Healy²

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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This article explores the articulation—in different forms, at different periods, and by different actors—of ‘national self‐determination’ in Somalia and across the Somali‐speaking regions of the Horn of Africa. It explores how this concept can be understood in the context of protracted political fragmentation in Somalia—considering unresolved debates over the ideological foundations of state reconstruction, disagreements about the suitability of federalism, aspirations for the recognition of an independent Republic of Somaliland, and the distinctive trajectory of the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia. Taking a comparative, cross‐border and wide‐angled historical approach, the article argues that ideas of an ethno‐linguistically, culturally and religiously defined Somali ‘nation’ continue to coexist (and be reproduced, updated and used) within an environment of extreme political fragmentation and across multiple ‘state’ boundaries. This argument is made through comparative analysis of contemporary examples of the performance of Somali state and nationalist identities within and beyond the region and the distinctive transnational Somali‐language media environment within which these ideas circulate and compete.

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News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet

Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet

Government Innovation in Social Sciences: A Literature Review

Self‐determination and a shattered star: Statehood and national identity in the Somali Horn of Africa

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