{"id":13084,"date":"2025-08-21T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:00:33","slug":"departmental-book-launch-whatsapp-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/2025\/08\/21\/departmental-book-launch-whatsapp-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Book Launch: WhatsApp in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did an encrypted messaging app become a force in global politics and activism? \u00a0<em>WhatsApp in the World<\/em>\u00a0uncovers how promised privacy can collide with political influence, shaping everything from elections to daily life. Join us for the second event in the Department of Journalism\u2019s Book Launch series with co-editor Prof Herman Wasserman, as he unpacks the fascinating contradictions of \u201clived encryption\u201d and its impact on activism, disinformation, and privacy.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Date :27 August 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Time: 17:00 to 19:00<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Venue: \u00a0Stellenbosch University \u00a0Department of Journalism.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Light refreshments will be available.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For queries, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:journalism@sun.ac.za\" data-linkindex=\"0\">journalism@sun.ac.za<\/a>\u00a0#BookLaunch #WhatsAppInTheWorld #StelliesJourn<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did an encrypted messaging app become a force in global politics and activism? \u00a0WhatsApp in the World\u00a0uncovers how promised privacy can collide with political influence, shaping everything from elections to daily life. Join us for the second event in the Department of Journalism\u2019s Book Launch series with co-editor Prof Herman Wasserman, as he unpacks [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13109,"featured_media":13092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3256,160,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-notices","category-stellenbosch-university"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13088,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}