Was invited by Associate Professor SungYong Lee at NCPACS to deliver a guest lecture to his 2021 MA class on media's role in peacebuilding violent conflict generation.

1. Roles of media in
peacebuilding &
conflict
generation
PEAC501, NCPACS
Sanjana Hattotuwa

2. What I study
2,400+ accounts
on Facebook,
daily
200,000 tweets a
week on Sri
Lanka

4. Two realities

5. “You will never be
completely at home
again, because part of
your heart always will be
elsewhere. That is the
price you pay for the
richness of loving and
knowing people in more
than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney
Sri Lanka and
Global South
New Zealand
and OECD

6. Simultaneous
potential
A long gestation

9. public pulse over
social media
signatures, signals and signs
systems-level study

10. volume, vector,
velocity
scale, scope and
speed

11. weaponising
affordances
democratic or
damoclean

13. a video every
second
uploaded to
youtube
cross-pollination
super-spreaders

16. adhesion
cohesion
repulsion
context
country
community

17. complex media
ecologies
divisions between
mainstream, traditional &
social media lost

18. Everything you
can imagine is
real.
– Pablo Picasso

19. artificial
intelligence
peace &
conflict

20. by Karen Hao, Technology Review

22. social
cohesion
human rights

23. ෙබාෙහාම
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tēnā koutou
thank you