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The discourse of digital civic engagement : perspectives from the developing world / Rotimi Taiwo and Tunde Opeibi, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Electronics and telecommunications research.
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Technological innovations--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Political participation.
- Political participation--Technological innovations--Nigeria--Case studies.
- Digital media--Political aspects--Developing countries--Case studies.
- Digital media.
- Digital media--Political aspects--Nigeria--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an impressive collection of chapters which investigates the role that digital communication technologies play in political discourse and civic engagement in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. The collection, written by fifteen seasoned African scholars and, drawn from diverse backgrounds approaches digital civic engagement from different perspectives of discourse analysis, such as, critical discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse model, socio-semiotic approaches and multimodal discourse analysis, computer-mediated discourse analysis, appraisal theory, as well as sociolinguistic and applied linguistic approaches. The authors demonstrate how the Internet has become the space for citizens' participation in the process of democratization, as well as the key driver of change in many developing nations. The process of civic engagement which manifests through the verbal and visual semiotic resources on different social networking spaces, such as online newspapers feedback forums, Facebook, Badoo, Twooo, texting and instant messaging, discussion forums, political cartoons, and Charismatic religious sermons are explored. This book is a must read for researchers who are interested in the discourse of online civic engagement in the developing world.
- Contents:
- Digital media and civic engagement in Nigeria : a corpus-assisted discourse study of president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's Facebook / Tunde Opeibi
- Language use in crisis situations : a discourse analysis of online reactions to digital news reports of the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the Nairobi Westgate attack / Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye
- A multimodal analysis of the public discourse of the 2013 university lecturers' strike in Nigeria / Mohammed Ademilokun
- Sentence typologies and civic engagement in Nairaland forum / Yetunde Idehen & Rotimi Taiwo
- The "eboliticization" of discourse : online legitimations on the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa / Ikenna Kamalu
- Finding their feet : digital immigrants in a "natives" generation contrasting the use of SMS and IM in everyday communication / Ayo Onanuga & Emmanuel Taiwo Babalola
- Visual representation of power in selected online Nigerian newspapers' political cartoons / Felicia Oamen & Micheal Olusegun Fajuyigbe
- Personal branding styles on some social networking sites / Olaosun Ibrahim Esan & Oyebamiji Mojirayo Patricia
- Discourse of online preaching : a stylo-linguistic analysis of pastor Tunde Bakare's sermons on religion, politics and poverty in Nigeria / Adegboye Adeyanju
- The discursive features of Nigerian online political cartoons / Oludele, E. Omobola.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63484-121-2
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