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Nigeria's Digital Diaspora
Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation
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Published/Copyright:
2020
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2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner
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/
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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Contributor: Farooq A. Kperogi
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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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 Citizen and Alternative Journalism: Mapping the Conceptual Contours
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2 The Nigerian Press: From Colonial Evangelism to Guerrilla Journalism
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3 The Nigerian Digital Diasporic Public Sphere
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4 Profiles of Diasporic Citizen Media Sites
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5 From the Diaspora to the Homeland: Role Reversal in News Flows
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6 The Nigerian Government’s Response to the Diasporic Citizen Media
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7 Domestic Online Media, Social Networked Journalism, and Participation
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8 Mainstreaming of Diasporic Citizen Journalism and Implications for Nigerian Journalism
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
Nigeria's Digital Diaspora; citizen journalism; media disruption; online activism; social media; democratic discourse; media transformation; Nigerian journalism; transnational elite
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
