About Teaching Fellow in Media and Creative Industries Julie.Osakwe@warwick.ac.uk Faculty of Arts Building

Jay Osakwe is a Teaching Fellow in Media and Creative Industries. She joined the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies in 2022. Prior to this, she was an Associate Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland. She completed a PhD in Digital Politics and Culture in 2021. Additionally, she is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests address many key issues of digital culture, participatory politics and society which she investigates combining ethnographic methods with thematic analysis.

Research interests

My research focuses on how nascent post-colonial democracies in the Global South use newer forms of communication (such as Twitter) as a vehicle to check corruption and pressure political elites to enact new laws while tackling fundamental questions to rethink the idea of society.

Past and current research projects

My research outputs investigate issues around hashtag activism, clicktivism as a legitimate source of political participation, the relationship between clicktivism and affective publics and manipulative publics. Additionally, I have been involved in a British Council research project that was aimed at delivering effective industry placements for HE institutions in Sri Lanka. I have also worked on a GCRF funded project to develop a participatory methodology to work with women at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Nigeria.

Selected Publications and Conferences

Osakwe J. (2017). Power, voice and e-quality: citizen political participation via social media in Nigeria. Ways of Being in a Digital Age, University of Liverpool.

Osakwe, J. (2018). Media and the government of populations review (media and the government of populations: communication, technology, power). Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 27(1), pp. 123–124.

Osakwe J., McGillivray, D. & Campbell, R. (2018). 'Directing Our Noble Cause: citizen political participation via social media.' Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences, University of Tampere.

Osakwe J., McGillivray, D. & Campbell, R. (2020). 'Directing Our Noble Cause: online protest campaigns'. Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa: Growing Healthy Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, University of the West of Scotland.

Osakwe J. (2022). 'Tackling State Corruption with Contemporary Technology'. Politics from the Margins: University of York.