Matthew Adeiza

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Matthew Adeiza is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States, where he studies the impact of digital media on politics in Africa. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of Jos, Nigeria, and a master’s in African Studies from St Antony’s CollegeUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom. He employs a multi-method, cross-national approach to study the relationship between digital media and democracy consolidation in African countries. He is currently studying how political candidates use digital media for political campaigning in Nigeria. He recently completed a fieldwork in a state election. He is project manager for the Digital Activism Research Project at the University of Washington. He previously led the Nigeria segment of a BBC-sponsored global user research hosted at Leuphana University’s User Research Lab, URL.

The research seeks to understand how users respond to breaking news in terms of media choice as well as everyday media habits. He has gained work experience at the BBC World Service for Africa in London and interned at Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper bureau in Jos, Nigeria. He edited the University of Jos student newspaper Unijos Echothe Oxford Media Society’s blog, and was published in the New African magazine, a leading magazine on African affairs.