Rohan Jayasekera

Writer & Researcher

Fundraiser & Project Manager

Tech Consultant

Rohan Jayasekera

Writer & Researcher

Fundraiser & Project Manager

Tech Consultant

Past Articles
July 24, 2017 Capping the polluting effects of fake news
Concepts

Can we treat problems like fake news, native ads and ad-bot fraud as dangerous by-products of industrial scale content production online?

June 15, 2017 Artists coding emotional impact into data sets
Concepts

Should data scientists & artists ‘design in’ engineered capacity to induce human emotional responses to otherwise impenetrable data sets?

April 10, 2017 Audience data strip miners fail to deliver
Archives

Small ‘hyper-local’ publishers need access to hyper-local audience market data granular enough to make their businesses sustainable.

March 21, 2017 Exercising discretion in a war on extremist media
Archives

There are no good options for journalists co-opted into joining the ‘war’ on extremist narratives online – only bad or ineffective ones.