Dani Madrid-Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 136583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dani Madrid-Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dani |
| FAMILY NAME | Madrid-Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MADRID-MORALES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1522-5857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disrupting or Conforming: A Computational Analysis of International News Coverage of Africa on YouTube
International news organizations have historically reinforced narratives of poverty, conflict, and crisis in their portrayal of Africa, often aligning with broader geopolitical power structures. While recent years have seen the rise of new broadcasters such as Al Jazeera, CGTN, and TRT World, it remains contested whether they challenge or reproduce dominant Anglo-American media framings. The emergence of digital platforms, particularly YouTube, h…
Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal
This study examines how media professionals in Kenya and Senegal respond to misinformation using fact-checking and media literacy strategies and how they perceive these strategies for mitigating the spread of misinformation. We conducted 42 semi-structured in-depth interviews with people belonging to one of the following three groups: individuals employed in the news media such as journalists, reporters and editors; individuals working for either…
How civil society coalition-building affects information integrity during elections: Evidence from four African countries
This article examines how civil society actors promote information integrity during elections through coalition-building, drawing on evidence from four African countries (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa) that held elections between 2022 and 2024. In these countries, disinformation, extreme speech, and other forms of information manipulation often target electoral processes, threatening to undermine public trust,…
"Beyond “Emergencies?" Reporting on Humanitarian Issues Around the World
How do journalists around the world report on humanitarian issues? Two decades after Calhoun first wrote about the “emergency imaginary”, it is still seen as a “master frame”, dominating narratives about humanitarian action in news and aid work alike. But no one has previously tested the extent to which the emergency imaginary dominates journalism about humanitarian issues within a largescale, systematic study. Using an innovative combination of …
Are Hong Kongese Still Bicultural? Six Preregistered Replications of the Cultural Priming Effect in Hong Kong
Cultural priming significantly enhances the internal validity of causal inferences in cultural psychology. Earlier studies showed that bicultural Hong Kongese could alternate between Chinese and Western cultural frames based on priming. However, after more than 25 years since Hong Kong's transfer from the UK to China, this assumption requires reevaluation due to substantial social and political changes. While the late 1990s studies reasonably pre…
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information
This study examines the extent to which digital inequalities, often associated in the literature with certain social demographics (e.g. age or place of residence), shape media users’ exposure to and engagement with misinformation. Using data from 24 focus group discussions conducted in six African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), we describe media users’ diverse experiences with false information and discuss …
Too aggressive’ or ‘slay queens’: Gendered attacks, threats and disinformation in Kenyan elections
What is media literacy and why does it matter? Perspectives of Senegalese media professionals
Like other West African countries, Senegal has not been spared from the adverse political, social, cultural and economic effects of misinformation. Although the country stands out as a pioneer in West Africa for introducing media literacy education within the school system in the early 1960s, it has not yet established a national strategy for promoting media literacy. At the same time, media literacy has been touted as one way to address misinfor…
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth
Media and information literacy (MIL) has long been part of academic curricula in many parts of the world, including South Africa. More recently, the rise of misinformation on the continent has emphasised the importance of including misinformation literacy (ML) skills into these programmes. Such skills involve distinguishing different types of inaccurate content, authenticating online information, and using technology to verify images/videos. Draw…
Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal
While misinformation is very prevalent in Africa, we have a limited understanding of how key stakeholders, such as journalists, fact-checkers, policy experts, and educators, perceive responses to misinformation to address its spread. Based on an analysis of 46 interviews with media professionals and other key stakeholders from Kenya and Senegal, we find divergent perceptions of what regulatory interventions are needed to slow the spread of misinf…
Global Chinese media and a decade of change
a television producer who, starting in the 1990s, worked on and off for CCTV, recounts the complexities of
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the disappearance of local media outlets (e.g., newspapers and TV stations) to the social fabric of a community. In this article, we extend the concept of “news deserts” by drawing on literature on the …
Disinformation in the Global South
How effective are Chinese media in shaping audiences’ attitudes towards China? A survey analysis in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
Purpose This paper measures how often audiences in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa consume Chinese media, and investigates whether a positive relationship exists between the consumption of English language Chinese media and attitudes towards China. Method We analyze three waves of survey data collected in 2017/2018, 2020 and 2021 ( N = 5876) in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Findings We show that, while Chinese State-owned news media have a gr…
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries
While research on misinformation in Africa has increased in recent years, and despite a growing body of theoretical and empirical work that considers the role of governments, platforms, and users in stopping misinformation globally, there is still a lack of empirical research addressing ways to curb its spread on the continent. Research has coalesced around the idea that no single approach will work in all contexts, and effective strategies need …
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement
This study explores the role of political information seeking on social media and perceived exposure to misinformation in influencing online political engagement. A survey investigation of three Sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) suggests that both information seeking and perceived exposure to misinformation are positively associated with online political engagement. We find that younger citizens are more actively en…
Se acumula capital social en Asia Oriental con el uso de las redes sociales? Inferencia causal estadística con datos del Asian Barometer Survey
Los primeros estudios experimentales sobre el uso de Internet revelaron un efecto negativo de este sobre la acumulación de capital social. Desde entonces, muchos estudios han identificado efectos positivos. Estos resultados poco concluyentes se deben a la diversidad de usos de Internet, la ambigüedad conceptual del término ‘capital social’, la falta de estudios sobre diferentes culturas, y las limitaciones metodológicas de la inferencia causal. E…
Disinformation in the Global South
Who set the narrative? Assessing the influence of Chinese global media on news coverage of Covid-19 in 30 African countries
The size of China’s State-owned media’s operations in Africa has grown significantly since the early 2000s. Previous research on the impact of increased Sino-African mediated engagements has been inconclusive. Some researchers hold that public opinion toward China in African nations has been improving because of the increased media presence. Others argue that the impact is rather limited, particularly when it comes to affecting how African media …
Is it still a man’s world? Social media news use and gender inequality in online political engagement
Social media platforms have created new opportunities for political engagement. This has brought about a rich body of literature on the relationship between the two. However, the impact of social media on redressing or augmenting gender inequality in engagement remains underexplored. This cross-national comparative study investigates the role of social media news use in influencing gender inequality in online political engagement across three Sub…
Why are Politically Active People Avoided in Countries with Collectivistic Culture? A Cross-Cultural Experiment
Although most democratic theories assume that political participation other than voting constitutes an essential input to the political process, little is known about the cultural universality of this assumption. Drawing on cultural psychology findings derived from the widely shared framework of collectivism versus individualism, the present study tests the hypothesis that political demonstrators in collectivistic countries are socially avoided b…
Disruptions and transformations of digital media in Africa: An interdisciplinary overview
Using Computational Text Analysis Tools to Study African Online News Content
After radio and television, online media are fast becoming a primary source of information for many Africans. With this increase, it is becoming necessary for media researchers to explore ways to better understand production, content and reception patterns of online news in the continent. This paper introduces freely available tools for systematic and (semi-)automated collection, storage and analysis of digital news that builds on recent advances…
Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion
Objective With an aim of extending the scope of group threat theory from within‐country tensions between racial groups to international economic competition, this study specifically examined the impacts of perceived relative economic status of an in‐group country on attitudes about contentious political issues with a rival out‐group country. Methods Two survey experiments were administered, both of which manipulated Japanese participants’ percept…
Diversifying Voice, Democratizing the News? A Content Analysis of Citizen News Sources in Spanish-language International Broadcasting
This paper explores sourcing practices in three international broadcasters in Spanish: China’s CGTN Español, Iran’s HispanTV and Russia’s RT. Often described as counter-hegemonic, in that the worldview they present is not in alignment with dominant Anglo-American media, these three State-sponsored TV channels have grown their presence globally in recent years, but remain largely understudied. Drawing on literature about non-elite sourcing, source…
Chinese Media Engagement in South Africa: What is its impact on local journalism
China’s footprint in Africa’s media sector over the last decade has reached dimensions that make it impossible to go unnoticed. In South Africa, one of the countries where this imprint is most diversified, Chinese media have been engaged in a varied range of activities, including content production and distribution, infrastructure development, direct investment in local media and training of journalists. Building on previous exploratory studies b…
Diversifying Voice, Democratizing the News? A Content Analysis of Citizen News Sources in Spanish-language International Broadcasting
This paper explores sourcing practices in three international broadcasters in Spanish: China’s CGTN Español, Iran’s HispanTV and Russia’s RT. Often described as counter-hegemonic, in that the worldview they present is not in alignment with dominant Anglo-American media, these three State-sponsored TV channels have grown their presence globally in recent years, but remain largely understudied. Drawing on literature about non-elite sourcing, source…
Narratives of Contemporary Africa on China Global Television Network’s Documentary Series Faces of Africa
This paper examines the documentary series Faces of Africa, broadcast on CGTN Africa, the African branch of China Global Television Network (CGTN, formerly known as CCTV International) since 2012. Using in-depth interviews and content analysis, we canvas the layers of supervision, censorship, agency and cross-cultural collaboration that lead to a creative dialogue between filmmakers and Chinese commissioning producers. We argue that, compared to …
Transatlantic connection: K-pop and K-drama fandom in Spain and Latin America
The global circulation of Asian cultural products has been on a constant rise since the 1990s. However, the arrival to Spanish-speaking audiences is a more recent phenomenon, one that is linked to the consolidation of web-based tools for consumption, distribution and discussion of cultural artefacts. The different stages in which Hallyu, or the ‘Korean Wave’, reached different countries determined the intensity of scholarly interest in the phenom…
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement
This study explores the role of political information seeking on social media and perceived exposure to misinformation in influencing online political engagement. A survey investigation of three Sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) suggests that both information seeking and perceived exposure to misinformation are positively associated with online political engagement. We find that younger citizens are more actively en…
Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal
While misinformation is very prevalent in Africa, we have a limited understanding of how key stakeholders, such as journalists, fact-checkers, policy experts, and educators, perceive responses to misinformation to address its spread. Based on an analysis of 46 interviews with media professionals and other key stakeholders from Kenya and Senegal, we find divergent perceptions of what regulatory interventions are needed to slow the spread of misinf…
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information
This study examines the extent to which digital inequalities, often associated in the literature with certain social demographics (e.g. age or place of residence), shape media users’ exposure to and engagement with misinformation. Using data from 24 focus group discussions conducted in six African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), we describe media users’ diverse experiences with false information and discuss …
Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion
Objective With an aim of extending the scope of group threat theory from within‐country tensions between racial groups to international economic competition, this study specifically examined the impacts of perceived relative economic status of an in‐group country on attitudes about contentious political issues with a rival out‐group country. Methods Two survey experiments were administered, both of which manipulated Japanese participants’ percept…
Global Chinese media and a decade of change
a television producer who, starting in the 1990s, worked on and off for CCTV, recounts the complexities of
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the disappearance of local media outlets (e.g., newspapers and TV stations) to the social fabric of a community. In this article, we extend the concept of “news deserts” by drawing on literature on the …
Transatlantic connection: K-pop and K-drama fandom in Spain and Latin America
The global circulation of Asian cultural products has been on a constant rise since the 1990s. However, the arrival to Spanish-speaking audiences is a more recent phenomenon, one that is linked to the consolidation of web-based tools for consumption, distribution and discussion of cultural artefacts. The different stages in which Hallyu, or the ‘Korean Wave’, reached different countries determined the intensity of scholarly interest in the phenom…
Identity and pleasure: The politics of Indonesian screen culture
Amidst a growing body of academic works dealing with inter-Asian cultural flows and transnational cultural phenomena (Chua, 2012; Iwabuchi, Muecke, & Thomas, 2004), the truth is that there is a rem
Chinese Media Engagement in South Africa: What is its impact on local journalism
China’s footprint in Africa’s media sector over the last decade has reached dimensions that make it impossible to go unnoticed. In South Africa, one of the countries where this imprint is most diversified, Chinese media have been engaged in a varied range of activities, including content production and distribution, infrastructure development, direct investment in local media and training of journalists. Building on previous exploratory studies b…
Narratives of Contemporary Africa on China Global Television Network’s Documentary Series Faces of Africa
This paper examines the documentary series Faces of Africa, broadcast on CGTN Africa, the African branch of China Global Television Network (CGTN, formerly known as CCTV International) since 2012. Using in-depth interviews and content analysis, we canvas the layers of supervision, censorship, agency and cross-cultural collaboration that lead to a creative dialogue between filmmakers and Chinese commissioning producers. We argue that, compared to …
An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
In recent years, concerns about the perceived increase in the amount of “fake news” have become prevalent in discussions about media and politics, particularly in the United States and Europe. However, debates around “fake news”, even if some object to the use of the term due to it being loosely defined, appear to speak of processes that occur not only in the Global North but also elsewhere. In Africa, mis- and disinformation campaigns have been …
Using Computational Text Analysis Tools to Study African Online News Content
After radio and television, online media are fast becoming a primary source of information for many Africans. With this increase, it is becoming necessary for media researchers to explore ways to better understand production, content and reception patterns of online news in the continent. This paper introduces freely available tools for systematic and (semi-)automated collection, storage and analysis of digital news that builds on recent advances…
Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion
Objective With an aim of extending the scope of group threat theory from within‐country tensions between racial groups to international economic competition, this study specifically examined the impacts of perceived relative economic status of an in‐group country on attitudes about contentious political issues with a rival out‐group country. Methods Two survey experiments were administered, both of which manipulated Japanese participants’ percept…
Diversifying Voice, Democratizing the News? A Content Analysis of Citizen News Sources in Spanish-language International Broadcasting
This paper explores sourcing practices in three international broadcasters in Spanish: China’s CGTN Español, Iran’s HispanTV and Russia’s RT. Often described as counter-hegemonic, in that the worldview they present is not in alignment with dominant Anglo-American media, these three State-sponsored TV channels have grown their presence globally in recent years, but remain largely understudied. Drawing on literature about non-elite sourcing, source…
Who set the narrative? Assessing the influence of Chinese global media on news coverage of Covid-19 in 30 African countries
The size of China’s State-owned media’s operations in Africa has grown significantly since the early 2000s. Previous research on the impact of increased Sino-African mediated engagements has been inconclusive. Some researchers hold that public opinion toward China in African nations has been improving because of the increased media presence. Others argue that the impact is rather limited, particularly when it comes to affecting how African media …
Is it still a man’s world? Social media news use and gender inequality in online political engagement
Social media platforms have created new opportunities for political engagement. This has brought about a rich body of literature on the relationship between the two. However, the impact of social media on redressing or augmenting gender inequality in engagement remains underexplored. This cross-national comparative study investigates the role of social media news use in influencing gender inequality in online political engagement across three Sub…
Why are Politically Active People Avoided in Countries with Collectivistic Culture? A Cross-Cultural Experiment
Although most democratic theories assume that political participation other than voting constitutes an essential input to the political process, little is known about the cultural universality of this assumption. Drawing on cultural psychology findings derived from the widely shared framework of collectivism versus individualism, the present study tests the hypothesis that political demonstrators in collectivistic countries are socially avoided b…
Disruptions and transformations of digital media in Africa: An interdisciplinary overview
Disinformation in the Global South
How effective are Chinese media in shaping audiences’ attitudes towards China? A survey analysis in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
Purpose This paper measures how often audiences in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa consume Chinese media, and investigates whether a positive relationship exists between the consumption of English language Chinese media and attitudes towards China. Method We analyze three waves of survey data collected in 2017/2018, 2020 and 2021 ( N = 5876) in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Findings We show that, while Chinese State-owned news media have a gr…
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries
While research on misinformation in Africa has increased in recent years, and despite a growing body of theoretical and empirical work that considers the role of governments, platforms, and users in stopping misinformation globally, there is still a lack of empirical research addressing ways to curb its spread on the continent. Research has coalesced around the idea that no single approach will work in all contexts, and effective strategies need …
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement
This study explores the role of political information seeking on social media and perceived exposure to misinformation in influencing online political engagement. A survey investigation of three Sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) suggests that both information seeking and perceived exposure to misinformation are positively associated with online political engagement. We find that younger citizens are more actively en…
Se acumula capital social en Asia Oriental con el uso de las redes sociales? Inferencia causal estadística con datos del Asian Barometer Survey
Los primeros estudios experimentales sobre el uso de Internet revelaron un efecto negativo de este sobre la acumulación de capital social. Desde entonces, muchos estudios han identificado efectos positivos. Estos resultados poco concluyentes se deben a la diversidad de usos de Internet, la ambigüedad conceptual del término ‘capital social’, la falta de estudios sobre diferentes culturas, y las limitaciones metodológicas de la inferencia causal. E…
Disinformation in the Global South
Global Chinese media and a decade of change
a television producer who, starting in the 1990s, worked on and off for CCTV, recounts the complexities of
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the disappearance of local media outlets (e.g., newspapers and TV stations) to the social fabric of a community. In this article, we extend the concept of “news deserts” by drawing on literature on the …
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth
Media and information literacy (MIL) has long been part of academic curricula in many parts of the world, including South Africa. More recently, the rise of misinformation on the continent has emphasised the importance of including misinformation literacy (ML) skills into these programmes. Such skills involve distinguishing different types of inaccurate content, authenticating online information, and using technology to verify images/videos. Draw…
Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal
While misinformation is very prevalent in Africa, we have a limited understanding of how key stakeholders, such as journalists, fact-checkers, policy experts, and educators, perceive responses to misinformation to address its spread. Based on an analysis of 46 interviews with media professionals and other key stakeholders from Kenya and Senegal, we find divergent perceptions of what regulatory interventions are needed to slow the spread of misinf…
"Beyond “Emergencies?" Reporting on Humanitarian Issues Around the World
How do journalists around the world report on humanitarian issues? Two decades after Calhoun first wrote about the “emergency imaginary”, it is still seen as a “master frame”, dominating narratives about humanitarian action in news and aid work alike. But no one has previously tested the extent to which the emergency imaginary dominates journalism about humanitarian issues within a largescale, systematic study. Using an innovative combination of …
Are Hong Kongese Still Bicultural? Six Preregistered Replications of the Cultural Priming Effect in Hong Kong
Cultural priming significantly enhances the internal validity of causal inferences in cultural psychology. Earlier studies showed that bicultural Hong Kongese could alternate between Chinese and Western cultural frames based on priming. However, after more than 25 years since Hong Kong's transfer from the UK to China, this assumption requires reevaluation due to substantial social and political changes. While the late 1990s studies reasonably pre…
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information
This study examines the extent to which digital inequalities, often associated in the literature with certain social demographics (e.g. age or place of residence), shape media users’ exposure to and engagement with misinformation. Using data from 24 focus group discussions conducted in six African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), we describe media users’ diverse experiences with false information and discuss …
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media Influence and Politics (13 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (8 works)