Dr. Sadrag Panduleni Shihomeka

Biography

Dr Sadrag Panduleni Shihomeka is a media and communication practitioner, specialised in social media and youth politics. As a researcher, he presented, and published in digital human rights, gender studies, as well as conferences, projects and seminars associated to e-Mourning and Post-death Digital Presence, online violence, e-ethics and marginalisation of women online areas. Dr Shihomeka serves an external moderator and theses examiner for Journalism and media Technology at the Namibia University of Science and Technology amongst others. In 2021, Dr Shihomeka was a Research Sprint fellow on the African Digital Sovereignty, at The South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication from Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, MBA, and a B. Ed (Secondary). Currently he is the Head of Department for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning and a Senior Lecturer for Educational Media and Technologies at the University of Namibia. As an ICT4D researcher, Dr Shihomeka, collaborated with several NGOs, Universities, and Institutions to promote digital literacy, digital romance, e-democracy, e-addiction, e-deception and cyberbullying to empower citizens with digital skills.

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