Ololade Faniyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2035534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ololade Faniyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ololade |
| FAMILY NAME | Faniyi |
| SIGNATURE | FANIYI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3610-0057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Killjoy Witness: African Content Moderators and AI’s Relationalities of Extraction
In November 2025, Emory University’s Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network (AIAI) hosted Time Magazine 100 AI and BBC 100 Women honoree Kauna Malgwi. I was privy to this both as a Ph.D. student rese...
Digital activisms and intersectionality in context
Editorial Special Issue: Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context
Un(veil)ing context collapse: Hijab
In this essay, we comment on two highly visible, popular tweets in our datasets around the #hijab that were flagged as highly popular in October 2022. These two tweets are demonstrative of two types of commonly visible strategies on social media—one based on a strategy of intentional context collapse and the other performative activism that serves to extract value for the Twitter user through selective allyship. The essay is taken from a larger i…
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSars
This article examines how feminist and queer activists transformed Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement from a male-centered campaign against police brutality into an intersectional struggle for justice. Through an analysis of Twitter discursive networks, interviews with activists, and digital ethnography, I trace how feminist rage at male-centered narratives evolved into coordinated organizing that shaped both online discourse and street protests. I expl…
Uncovering Right-Wing Digital Enclaves and Reactionary Politics: A Feminist Multi-Method Examination of a Transplatform Campaign
In October 2021, an advertisement for a fairness cream by the Indian company Dabur ignited a fierce controversy, unveiling deeply ingrained ideologies of lesbophobia, misogyny, colorism, casteism, and Hindu victimhood. The ad, featuring a lesbian couple performing the Hindu ritual of Karwa Chauth after using the skin whitening cream, sparked criticism for its attempt to integrate same-sex couples into mainstream Hindu society through skin tone mo…
Get the hammer out: Breaking computational tools for feminist, intersectional “small data” research
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online platforms. We use a case study that looks at the role that social media engagement by transnational activists, local activists and celebrities played in amplifying an offline protest by group of women …
Unpredictable digital intimacies and virtual backstabbing: The feminist coalition’s political effect in Nigeria
This article explores digital intimacies within Nigeria’s networked political discourse, focusing on the resurgence of the Feminist Coalition (FemCo), known for their involvement in Nigeria’s 2020 #EndSARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) movement against police brutality, as feminist political subjects during the 2023 election campaigns. It analyzes Twitter-networked interactions as FemCo was unexpectedly thrust into hypervisibility when asked to en…
Transnationalising Dadis as Feminist Political/Activist Subjects
This article examines Twitter publics to map how the ‘ dadis of Shaheen Bagh’ (grandmothers of Shaheen Bagh) emerged as political subjects through transnational media space even though they themselves did not directly access social media. A team of feminist media researchers examine how social media networks were mobilised strategically to gain international visibility and traction. Through a feminist close reading of Twitter data and a select fe…
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism
This article examines Nigerian feminist hashtag activism as this reveals how activists emplace and embody intersectionality in their organizings. I explore how a politics of intersectionality is institutionalized in Nigerian feminist hashtag activism on Twitter by unpacking the narratives that led to the emergence and online production of visibility for some hashtag activism that have shaped local and national politics in Nigeria. I further discu…
The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth
This article examines women’s shifting roles in the production of handwoven cloth in Sumba, Indonesia. The main themes that emerge are the invisible labor of women and the production of a self-empowered entrepreneurial, gendered, laboring subjectivity that works in tandem with a housewife ideology firmly situated in a ‘new’ liberal patriarchy. The inequalities emerging from these shifts are parallel to inequalities produced through neoliberalizat…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Young Feminists Redefining Principles of Care in Nigeria
Feminist and queer advocacies in Nigeria have resulted in a wave of radical care praxis due to backlash against members, sociopolitical upheaval, and burnout from ceaseless activist labor. This article discusses how conversations and cultures of radical care are transforming feminist and women's rights collectives and more heterogenous activist groups. It engages a critical synthesis of interviews and personal communications with ten Nigerian fem…
Get the hammer out: Breaking computational tools for feminist, intersectional “small data” research
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online platforms. We use a case study that looks at the role that social media engagement by transnational activists, local activists and celebrities played in amplifying an offline protest by group of women …
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSars
This article examines how feminist and queer activists transformed Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement from a male-centered campaign against police brutality into an intersectional struggle for justice. Through an analysis of Twitter discursive networks, interviews with activists, and digital ethnography, I trace how feminist rage at male-centered narratives evolved into coordinated organizing that shaped both online discourse and street protests. I expl…
Unpredictable digital intimacies and virtual backstabbing: The feminist coalition’s political effect in Nigeria
This article explores digital intimacies within Nigeria’s networked political discourse, focusing on the resurgence of the Feminist Coalition (FemCo), known for their involvement in Nigeria’s 2020 #EndSARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) movement against police brutality, as feminist political subjects during the 2023 election campaigns. It analyzes Twitter-networked interactions as FemCo was unexpectedly thrust into hypervisibility when asked to en…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Young Feminists Redefining Principles of Care in Nigeria
Feminist and queer advocacies in Nigeria have resulted in a wave of radical care praxis due to backlash against members, sociopolitical upheaval, and burnout from ceaseless activist labor. This article discusses how conversations and cultures of radical care are transforming feminist and women's rights collectives and more heterogenous activist groups. It engages a critical synthesis of interviews and personal communications with ten Nigerian fem…
The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth
This article examines women’s shifting roles in the production of handwoven cloth in Sumba, Indonesia. The main themes that emerge are the invisible labor of women and the production of a self-empowered entrepreneurial, gendered, laboring subjectivity that works in tandem with a housewife ideology firmly situated in a ‘new’ liberal patriarchy. The inequalities emerging from these shifts are parallel to inequalities produced through neoliberalizat…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Young Feminists Redefining Principles of Care in Nigeria
Feminist and queer advocacies in Nigeria have resulted in a wave of radical care praxis due to backlash against members, sociopolitical upheaval, and burnout from ceaseless activist labor. This article discusses how conversations and cultures of radical care are transforming feminist and women's rights collectives and more heterogenous activist groups. It engages a critical synthesis of interviews and personal communications with ten Nigerian fem…
Transnationalising Dadis as Feminist Political/Activist Subjects
This article examines Twitter publics to map how the ‘ dadis of Shaheen Bagh’ (grandmothers of Shaheen Bagh) emerged as political subjects through transnational media space even though they themselves did not directly access social media. A team of feminist media researchers examine how social media networks were mobilised strategically to gain international visibility and traction. Through a feminist close reading of Twitter data and a select fe…
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism
This article examines Nigerian feminist hashtag activism as this reveals how activists emplace and embody intersectionality in their organizings. I explore how a politics of intersectionality is institutionalized in Nigerian feminist hashtag activism on Twitter by unpacking the narratives that led to the emergence and online production of visibility for some hashtag activism that have shaped local and national politics in Nigeria. I further discu…
Uncovering Right-Wing Digital Enclaves and Reactionary Politics: A Feminist Multi-Method Examination of a Transplatform Campaign
In October 2021, an advertisement for a fairness cream by the Indian company Dabur ignited a fierce controversy, unveiling deeply ingrained ideologies of lesbophobia, misogyny, colorism, casteism, and Hindu victimhood. The ad, featuring a lesbian couple performing the Hindu ritual of Karwa Chauth after using the skin whitening cream, sparked criticism for its attempt to integrate same-sex couples into mainstream Hindu society through skin tone mo…
Get the hammer out: Breaking computational tools for feminist, intersectional “small data” research
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online platforms. We use a case study that looks at the role that social media engagement by transnational activists, local activists and celebrities played in amplifying an offline protest by group of women …
Unpredictable digital intimacies and virtual backstabbing: The feminist coalition’s political effect in Nigeria
This article explores digital intimacies within Nigeria’s networked political discourse, focusing on the resurgence of the Feminist Coalition (FemCo), known for their involvement in Nigeria’s 2020 #EndSARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) movement against police brutality, as feminist political subjects during the 2023 election campaigns. It analyzes Twitter-networked interactions as FemCo was unexpectedly thrust into hypervisibility when asked to en…
Un(veil)ing context collapse: Hijab
In this essay, we comment on two highly visible, popular tweets in our datasets around the #hijab that were flagged as highly popular in October 2022. These two tweets are demonstrative of two types of commonly visible strategies on social media—one based on a strategy of intentional context collapse and the other performative activism that serves to extract value for the Twitter user through selective allyship. The essay is taken from a larger i…
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSars
This article examines how feminist and queer activists transformed Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement from a male-centered campaign against police brutality into an intersectional struggle for justice. Through an analysis of Twitter discursive networks, interviews with activists, and digital ethnography, I trace how feminist rage at male-centered narratives evolved into coordinated organizing that shaped both online discourse and street protests. I expl…
A Killjoy Witness: African Content Moderators and AI’s Relationalities of Extraction
In November 2025, Emory University’s Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network (AIAI) hosted Time Magazine 100 AI and BBC 100 Women honoree Kauna Malgwi. I was privy to this both as a Ph.D. student rese...
Digital activisms and intersectionality in context
Editorial Special Issue: Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)