Department: Doctoral School

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: MEDIACCIONS Critical studies in culture, design and networked communication

Email: sudenze@uoc.edu

Silas Udenze is a fully-funded PhD grant holder of Humanities and Communication at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain. Silas earned his first, and master's degrees at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria, and the University of Abuja, respectively. He researches young people's appropriation of social media/new media for socio-political causes. His current project explores the digital storytelling experience of young Nigerians on social media regarding the topic of social change. Silas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Anthropology (CDA), University College London, the UK. He is also a member of the Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) at Rutgers University, United States.