Alakitan, M. T. (2026). [In Press]. Contextualising the precarities of social media influencership in Nigeria. Media, Culture & Society. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261473474 

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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

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Alakitan, M. [Forthcoming – December 2026]. Examining the Necropolitics of Recognition: the case of #EndSARS in ‘Necropolitics and Mass Violence: Power, Death, and Resistance in Global Perspective’. Emerald Publishing

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​​​​​​​​Alakitan, M., & Makinde, E. (2026, February 25). Africa Needs to Achieve AI Sovereignty for Economic Development; This Is What It Can Do—The Policy and Internet Blog. https://internet-policy-meco.sydney.edu.au/2026/02/africa-needs-to-achieve-ai-sovereignty-for-economic-development-this-is-what-it-can-do/

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Alakitan, M., Aiyenuro A., Adekanmbi O., & Kayode, F. (2025, July). Cambridge University Nigerian Society (CUNS) Democracy Day Panel: Documenting Actionable Interventions: Cambridge-Africa. https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-africa-updates/2025-cambridge-university-nigeria-societycuns-democracy-day-panel/

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

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Alakitan, M. (2023, October 27). Why are Nigerians leaving and what can the Government do? Dataphyte. 

https://dataphyte.com/topic/economy/why-are-nigerians-leaving-and-what-can-the-government-do

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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).

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[External Contributor] Mansell, R., Durach, F., Kettemann, M. C., Lenoir, T., Tripathi, G. P., & Tucker, E. (2025). Information ecosystems and troubled democracy: a global synthesis of the state of knowledge on news media, AI and data governance.

 

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