[Commlist] New Book: Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation

New Book Announcement

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book by the 
University of Rochester Press titled /Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: 
Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation./ If you order it online 
from 
https://boydellandbrewer.com/nigeria-s-digital-diaspora-hb.html with 
promo code BB35 you will get a 35% discount. Please consider 
recommending it to your library.

Here's the book's blurb:

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 held out hope that the disruptive 
effect of this insurgent, non-professionalized, 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 supplanting in some 
cases, 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.


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