Nigeria's Digital Diaspora - Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

• Authors: Farooq A Kperogi, Farooq A. Kperogi
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781580469821
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-982-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 231 mm x 155 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science