Farooq A. Kperogi

Nigeria's Digital Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation

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Produktbeschreibung

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 citizenjournalism.

Over a decade ago, when Nigeria's migratory digital elite in the United States pioneered a newfangled 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 socialmedia 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 themainstream of the country's journalistic landscape.

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446540
• Artikelnr.: 63918474

Autorenporträt

Farooq A. Kperogi

Inhaltsangabe

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