George Ogola

Contact

• workRoom B38C Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work01159515831
• George.Ogola1@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

My current research is on generative AI and its possible implications for the media industry. I'm interested in exploring its impact on media practices, journalistic cultures, media policy and… read more

Recent Publications

• GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries 1. Palgrave Macmillan.
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. Digital (Dis)order, Twitter Hashtags, and the Performance of Politics in Kenya. In: VICTORIA BERNAL and KATRIEN PYPE, eds., CRYPTOPOLITICS: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media 1. Berghahn Books. 323
• GEORGE OGOLA and DAVID CHERUIYOT, 2022. Contesting algorithmic accountability: Data protection laws and its implications for the news media in Kenya. In: JAMES MEESE and SARA BANNERMAN, eds., The Algorithmic Distribution of News: Policy Responses 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 313
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2022. The media and policymaking in Kenya. In: GEDION ONYANGO and GORAN HYDEN, eds., Governing Kenya: Public Policy in Theory and Practice 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 323

• View all publications

Current Research

My current research is on generative AI and its possible implications for the media industry. I'm interested in exploring its impact on media practices, journalistic cultures, media policy and regulation. To this end, I am currently working on a book on AI and Journalism in Africa to be published by Routledge.

Broadly, however, my research has generally focused on the impact of digital technologies on journalistic and organizational media practices; how they are disrupting and reconfiguring everyday routines in news production, and consumption habits by user communities. I am also interested in the impact of digital media technologies on processes of governance and political accountability in the developing world, more specifically in Africa. My previous work has explored aspects of Africa's popular culture, particularly narrative fiction, which I have examined as an important site and means through which to understand questions of power and its performance in the post-colony.

• GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries 1. Palgrave Macmillan.
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2023. Digital (Dis)order, Twitter Hashtags, and the Performance of Politics in Kenya. In: VICTORIA BERNAL and KATRIEN PYPE, eds., CRYPTOPOLITICS: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media 1. Berghahn Books. 323
• GEORGE OGOLA and DAVID CHERUIYOT, 2022. Contesting algorithmic accountability: Data protection laws and its implications for the news media in Kenya. In: JAMES MEESE and SARA BANNERMAN, eds., The Algorithmic Distribution of News: Policy Responses 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 313
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2022. The media and policymaking in Kenya. In: GEDION ONYANGO and GORAN HYDEN, eds., Governing Kenya: Public Policy in Theory and Practice 1. Palgrave Macmillan. 323
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2021. Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes.
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2018. The Nairobian and the ‘politics’ of tabloidization in Kenya’s print press. In: HAYES MABWEAZARA, ed., Newsmaking cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political & Economic Struggles Palgrave Macmillan.
• GEORGE OGOLA, 2017. Popular Media in Kenya's History: Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors Palgrave Macmillan.
• PETER ANDERSON, GEORGE OGOLA and MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 2013. The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis Routledge.