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A Bit About Me

I am a Sociologist interested in the intersection of digital technologies and the politics of knowledge production.

Publications

Alakitan, M. T. (2025). Redefining social media influencership through followership building. Platforms & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251394250

Alakitan, M., & Makinde, E. (2024). Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria. Policy & Internet.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.416

Alakitan, M. (2023, October 27). Are current AI regulations enough to protect Social Media Influencers? Dataphyte. https://www.dataphyte.com/latest-reports/are-current-ai-regulations-enough-to-protect-social-media-influencers/.

Alakitan, M. (2023). Bans, Gender, Unpaid Labour and Surveillance: Precarities of Nigerian Twitter Influencer Entrepreneurship. In Book of Abstracts XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (pp. 19).

Alakitan, M. (2023). Ethics, Context and Fabrication: Doing Social Media Ethnography in Nigeria. In Book of Abstracts XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (pp. 19).