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Research outputs: SOCIAL MEDIA
2021 Social network interviewing as an emancipatory southern methodological innovation
This essay offers an example of a new methodology developed by Southern scholars in the Global South that takes seriously the aim of emancip...
2021 Pushing the boundaries: adapting research methodology to document the COVID-19 pandemic from a socio-behavioural perspective in a low/ middle level income country: the case of South Africa
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in South Africas shelter-in-place lockdown. South Africa is vulnerable to the n...
2020 Twitter and student leadership in South Africa: the case of #FeesMustFall
With the rapid proliferation of social media around the world, social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly bec...
2020 Use of social media big data as a novel HIV surveillance tool in South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has been heavily impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Social data (e.g., social media, internet search, wearable device, et...