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

Tue Jan 14 23:47:18 GMT 2020





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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