Current Research + Teaching

 

Current projects include:

• Trending Ghana, book project (UC Berkeley dissertation project)  

• Africa + The Internet: Connection Cultures of the Continent (course, Williams College)

• Digital Diaspora: Black Cultural Production Online (course, Williams College) 

• Ghana's Video Cyberculture

• The African Twitterscape 

• Atomic Junction, documentary film, 2013

• 23 Principles of Internet Citizenship, online course/app, ongoing

 

Recent presentations/papers: 

 

Royston, R.A. (2015 in progress) “Remixing Ghana: Digital Presence and the Work of Representation” Visualizing Black Bodies,
University of Washington Press.

 

Royston, R.A. (2014) “Techno-Assemblages in Ghanaian Politics and Art.” (in progress)

 

“Hacking Development: Ghana’s Digital Elites.” A paper for 2013 African Studies Association conference, and being prepped for submission to African Studies Review.