NAWA Media is run by a team of media researchers, experts and practitioners in the fields of digital media, online journalism and civic activism, and based at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. We also work in collaboration with our network of NAWA-based partners and with e-learning experts across Europe and the UK.
Our Team
Dr. Dima Saber
Dima is a Senior Research Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. She is responsible for leading and delivering projects in citizen journalism in the Arab region, with a focus on the role of digital media in fostering social change and in altering the work of political activists in post-revolution countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Syria.
Dr. Jerome Turner
Jerome is a Research Assistant at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research with research interests in online communities and social media, and community studies as explored through his recent work on the Media, Community and the Creative Citizen project. His PhD study focuses on hyperlocal media audiences in the UK.
Kipp Jones
Kipp co-runs Wild Ilk Limited, a start-up graphic design studio working in brand, web and print design. Whilst collaborating with the Arab Citizen Media team he developed a new graphic style for the organisation which could then be applied to various forms of screen media, including this website.
Azza el Masri
Azza is the Pan-Arab Student Newsroom Coordinator. She has worked in the digital rights field as a campaigner and has led several fact-checking campaigns in Lebanon. Her research interests pertain to examining the emotional effects of misinformation spread by political actors and their impact in intergroup attitudes and studying the short-term and long-term effects of corrective messaging.
Meedan
Meedan builds digital tools for global journalists and translators. We are a team of designers, technologists and journalists who focus on open source investigation of digital media and crowdsourced translation of social media. Check is our flexible toolkit for collaboration around verifying user generated content. The Check project has worked to build tools, support independent journalists, and develop media literacy training resources that aim to improve the investigative quality of citizen journalism and help limit the rapid spread of rumors and misinformation.
