JOURNALISM · TECHNOLOGY · POWER · DEMOCRACY
I am a journalist, media leader and scholar examining how digital platforms and artificial intelligence are reshaping journalism, public institutions and political authority.
Executive Director, CJID · PhD Candidate, University of Iowa
01 — FOCUS AREAS
Platform Governance
How private infrastructures set public rules, shape access and reorder democratic accountability.
Digital Sovereignty
The changing capacity of states to govern data, networks and their digital public spheres.
AI Policy & Infrastructure
The political choices embedded in artificial intelligence systems and their governing institutions.
Journalism & Information Integrity
Independent media as civic infrastructure in contested information environments.
02 — SELECTED WORK
POLICY ESSAY · 2026
How governments and technology companies are negotiating authority as AI becomes critical infrastructure.
ESSAY · AI & AFRICA · 2026
AI, Africa, and the politics of knowledge, infrastructure and technological dependence
ANALYSIS · PLATFORM GOVERNANCE · 2025
How governments outside Washington and Brussels are asserting authority over global technology platforms.
ANALYSIS · TECHNOLOGY & LAW · 2025
When Big Tech Goes to Court
What legal battles involving Google, Meta and governments reveal about the changing relationship between platform power and public authority.
03 — FROM PRACTICE TO RESEARCH
04 — DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Examining how public authorities and global digital platforms negotiate and contest authority, and why state-platform confrontations develop differently across Nigeria, Brazil and the European Union.
NIGERIA
BRAZIL
EUROPEAN UNION
05 — BUILDING INSTITUTIONS
01
CJID
A pan-African journalism and media institution working across journalism, democratic accountability, technology policy, information integrity and civic innovation.
02
DUBAWA
A pan-African fact-checking and media literacy initiative advancing verification, information integrity and public understanding.
03
UDEME
A civic technology and accountability initiative using data, field research and journalism to track public spending and government projects.
06 — TEACHING
Courses that connect media theory, political power and the practical realities of emerging technologies.
Global Media Studies
Political Communication
AI, Platforms & the Future of Journalism
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS & RECOGNITION
Akintunde Babatunde
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