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George Ogola
Professor of Media Industries, Faculty of Arts
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Research Summary
My current research is on generative AI and its possible implications for the media industry. I'm interested in exploring its impact on media practices, journalistic cultures, media policy and… read more
Recent Publications
GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. 1. Palgrave Macmillan.
GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. . In: VICTORIA BERNAL and KATRIEN PYPE, eds., CRYPTOPOLITICS: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media 1. Berghahn Books. 323
GEORGE OGOLA and DAVID CHERUIYOT, 2022. . In: JAMES MEESE and SARA BANNERMAN, eds., The Algorithmic Distribution of News: Policy Responses 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 313
GEORGE OGOLA, 2022. . In: GEDION ONYANGO and GORAN HYDEN, eds., Governing Kenya: Public Policy in Theory and Practice 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 323
Current Research
My current research is on generative AI and its possible implications for the media industry. I'm interested in exploring its impact on media practices, journalistic cultures, media policy and regulation. To this end, I am currently working on a book on AI and Journalism in Africa to be published by Routledge.
Broadly, however, my research has generally focused on the impact of digital technologies on journalistic and organizational media practices; how they are disrupting and reconfiguring everyday routines in news production, and consumption habits by user communities. I am also interested in the impact of digital media technologies on processes of governance and political accountability in the developing world, more specifically in Africa. My previous work has explored aspects of Africa's popular culture, particularly narrative fiction, which I have examined as an important site and means through which to understand questions of power and its performance in the post-colony.
GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. 1. Palgrave Macmillan.
GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. . In: VICTORIA BERNAL and KATRIEN PYPE, eds., CRYPTOPOLITICS: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media 1. Berghahn Books. 323
GEORGE OGOLA and DAVID CHERUIYOT, 2022. . In: JAMES MEESE and SARA BANNERMAN, eds., The Algorithmic Distribution of News: Policy Responses 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 313
GEORGE OGOLA, 2022. . In: GEDION ONYANGO and GORAN HYDEN, eds., Governing Kenya: Public Policy in Theory and Practice 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 323
GEORGE OGOLA, 2021. Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes.
GEORGE OGOLA, 2018. . In: HAYES MABWEAZARA, ed., Newsmaking cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political & Economic Struggles Palgrave Macmillan.
GEORGE OGOLA, 2017. Palgrave Macmillan.
PETER ANDERSON, GEORGE OGOLA and MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 2013. Routledge.