Keynote

 

We are delighted to announce that we have confirmed our first keynote speaker, Tanja Bosch, Professor of Media Studies and Production at the University of Cape Town.

Professor Bosch is the author of Broadcasting Democracy: Radio and Identity in South Africa (HSRC Press, 2017), Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa (Routledge 2020); co-editor of Digital Citizenship in Africa (Zed Books, 2023), and Digital Feminist Citizenship in Africa (Bloomsbury, 2025); as well co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2nd edition, forthcoming). Her research includes work on decolonising digital methods, digital citizenship, and social media culture and activism.

Professor Bosch explores the concept of "refusal" as a generative and insurgent mode of scholarship within decolonial studies, moving beyond simple negation to enact epistemic disobedience and challenge capitalist structures in academia: rejecting extractive logics, resisting metrics of impact, and centring labour, sovereignty, and solidarity.