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Nigeria's Digital Diaspora

By Kperogi, Farooq A.

Nigeria's Digital Diaspora Media & Communication

Nigeria's Digital Diaspora

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Over a decade ago, when Nigeria's migratory digital elite in the United States pioneered a newfangled form of citizen online journalism that disrupted the professional certainties of domestic legacy journalism, the country's professional journalists perhaps assumed that the disruptive effect of this insurgent, nonprofessionalized, non-\routinized but nonetheless transformative form of journalism would be transitory. But diasporic citizen online journalism is not only now an integral part of Nigeria's media ecosystem, it has also inspired successful homeland digital-native emulators and is challenging, even in some cases supplanting, traditional domestic media formations as sites of consequential democratic discourse. With Nigeria's frenetic and deeply engaged social media scene, diasporan citizen journalism, homeland news, and social media activism are merging to create the most energetic moment in Nigeria's media history. This book chronicles the emergence and transformation of Nigeria's diasporic citizen journalism from the margins to the mainstream of the country's journalistic landscape and draws parallels with the mainstreaming of alternative media formations in other parts of the world.
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/
Product details
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2020-01-15
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580469825
ISBN13:
9781580469821
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
605 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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