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Sanjana Hattotuwa on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Social Media

In this episode, Sanjana Hattotuwa prompts us to ask better questions about online content: how does it inform our world view? What values does it advance? And how do we wrest control of it?



In this episode, Sanjana Hattotuwa, special advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation and research fellow in Dunedin, Aotearoa NZ, prompts us to ask better questions about online content: how does it inform our world view? What values does it advance? And how do we wrest control of it?

Drawing the analogy of DJs and clubs, Sanjana breaks down the role of content creators and the platforms that host them, as well as what it all means for the millions of users in the Global South who have long “begged” for greater attention to these issues before the West woke up to them.