Nigeria's Digital Diaspora

Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-58046-982-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

In a disruptive media landscape characterized by the relentless death of legacy newspapers, Nigeria's Digital Diaspora shows that a country's transnational elite can shake its media ecosystem through distant online citizen journalism.

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner.

Over a decade ago, when Nigeria's migratory digital elite in the United States pioneered a new fangled form of online citizen journalism that disrupted the certainties of legacy journalism, the country's professional journalists assumed that this amateur insurgency would be transitory. Instead, it was transformative. Diasporic online citizen journalism is now not only an integral part of Nigeria's media ecosystem, it has also inspired successful homeland emulators and is challenging, even in some cases supplanting, traditional media in the nation's democratic discourse. Within the frenetic and deeply engaged social media scene, diasporic citizen journalism, homeland news, and social media activism are merging to create the most energetic moment in Nigeria's media history. Nigeria's Digital Diaspora chronicles the emergence and transformation of this diasporic citizen journalism from the margins to the mainstream of the country's journalistic landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kperogi, Farooq A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Citizen and Alternative Journalism: Mapping the Conceptual Contours
The Nigerian Press: From Colonial Evangelism to Guerrilla Journalism
The Nigerian Digital Diasporic Public Sphere
Profiles of Diasporic Citizen Media Sites
From the Diaspora to the Homeland: Role Reversal in News Flows
The Nigerian Government's Response to the Diasporic Citizen Media
Domestic Online Media, Social Networked Journalism, and Participation
Mainstreaming of Diasporic Citizen Journalism and Implications for Nigerian Journalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kperogi, Farooq A
Farooq A. Kperogi is Associate Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. He is a columnist for the Nigerian Tribune and blogs at https://www.farooqkperogi.com/