Nigeria's digital diaspora : citizen media, democracy, and participation

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Nigeria's digital diaspora : citizen media, democracy, and participation

Farooq A. Kperogi

(Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora)

University of Rochester Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-288) and index

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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. 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Over a decade ago, when Nigeria's migratory digital elite in the United States pioneered a new fangled 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 social media 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 the mainstream of the country's journalistic landscape.

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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

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