TWITTER LIST AS A RESEARCH TOOL
A Thread 🧵
Twitter in itself is a very powerful tool with a wide range of utilities, from getting verified information, to keeping up to date on trending topics both locally and globally. (1/13)
How Big Tech Frames African Audiences As Intellectually Lazy.
African social media audiences are not “dumb” - they are being conditioned.
When Africans have to engage with western controlled information ecosystems, the engagement is never a fair one. Not in traditional media, and certainly not in digital media. It always follows the same colonial playbook of extraction and social engineering over any kind of meaningful conversation or useful solution.
The exploitative relationship between Western-controlled tech giants and Africa's social media audiences is often overlooked, but it shapes almost everything we see or value - and even how we understand ourselves. The low-effort, oversexualized content that has become recognised as the preferred taste of African audiences is not in fact an organic phenomenon. To put it bluntly, Western colonial tech monopolies are actively engineering African social media spaces into cesspits of anti-intellectual slop.
Africa must rise to resist this intellectual suppression by building information and communication ecosystems by Africans and for Africans.
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