Kezia Batisai Editor

Selina Linda Mudavanhu is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies and Media Arts Department in the Humanities faculty at McMaster University in Canada. She is also a Senior Research Associate with the Department of Communication and Media (University of Johannesburg, South Africa). Selina holds a PhD in Media Studies from South Africa. She also has degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. Her research interests include critical media studies, critical race studies, coloniality and decoloniality as well as digital storytelling. Selina has received grants and awards to convene qualitative projects using digital storytelling with partners in Canada and South Africa. She has received funding from the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, the Petro-Canada-McMaster University Young Innovator Award, the McMaster Arts Research Board, McMaster University's International Office, and the MacPherson Institute’s Student Partners Program (SPP). Selina has published in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial boards of African Journalism Studies and Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa.

Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of South Africa. He has published several articles on communication, media and journalism in Africa. His body of work covers social media and politics; social media and identity; social media and protests. He is the editor of The politics of laughter in the social media age: Perspectives from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and co-editor of Mediating xenophobia in Africa (Palgrave 2020).

Kezia Batisai is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg who holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Cape Town. Kezia has written several journal articles, book chapters, technical reports and opinion pieces that expand her theory of marginality. The published work questions notions of marginality and the meaning of being different that expose the politics of nation–building in Africa. Kezia’s work articulates these notions of marginality through an interdisciplinary approach to gender, sexuality, health, and migration studies, and interrogates how people marked by society as ‘the minority’ (based on intersecting positionalities) negotiate being different within various hierarchised zones of the everyday. Kezia is an active member of the International Sociological Association; South African Association for Gender Studies; South African Sociological Association; and the Research Network Law, Gender, and Sexuality (LEX) International Steering Committee.