Amaka Peace Onebunne
Ph.D. Researcher — Temple University
Amaka Peace Onebunne
Sociotechnical Systems Researcher
Temple University · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I study how people, organizations, and societies interact with emerging technologies, especially AI. My research explores communication, trust, and responsibility, and how technologies travel across contexts and shape everyday life.
- Human–Machine Communication
- Responsible AI
- AI Governance
- AI Trust & Safety
- Computational Social Science
- Digital Media
- Information Integrity
- Generative AI
- Media & Technology
- Platform Governance
- Algorithmic Accountability
- AI and Journalism
- Digital Society
- Global South
- Emerging Technologies
Research
Areas of Inquiry
01
Responsible AI and Corporate Accountability
Examining how AI companies define safety, responsibility, evaluation, and institutional accountability in official governance documents.
02
AI Expansion and the Global South
Studying how Africa and Latin America are constructed as emerging markets, testing grounds, and strategic frontiers for artificial intelligence.
03
Synthetic Media and Information Integrity
Investigating how African news organizations frame deepfakes, political risk, criminality, governance, and emerging forms of synthetic media.
04
Digital Culture and Human–Machine Communication
Exploring how people interpret intelligent technologies and how digital media create new forms of intimacy, identity, knowledge, and social interaction.
Selected Work
Research across AI, media, institutions, and society
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Expansion: Constructing the Global South as Speculative Market
An analysis of how corporate, policy, and investment narratives construct the Global South as an emerging market and strategic frontier for artificial intelligence.
Algorithmic Visibility and the Feedback Loop of Othering: The Case for Africa
A study of how algorithmic visibility and recommendation systems reproduce stereotypical representations and reinforce recurring patterns of othering.
Journalists’ Perception of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Nigerian Newsrooms
A qualitative study of how Nigerian journalists understand, adopt, and negotiate artificial intelligence within newsroom practice.
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Essays and Commentary
Research explainers, Medium articles, conference reflections, and public-facing writing on AI and society.
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Open to research collaborations, invited talks, and interdisciplinary projects.