NaijaPals and Nolitics, respectively a hosting site and a discussion forum by and for Nigerians, provide an opportunity for the citizens’ social and political participation. As a hosting website with social networking and blogging activities, NaijaPals maintains an online community, with Nolitics as a discussion forum solely dedicated to social and political debate. Members exchange information and engage in critical analysis of Nigeria’s political system. A total of 104 ‘posts’ are analyzed in the framework of Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The analysis highlights the roles of political discourse in Nolitics, mainly as social critique, with the aim of shaping political leadership and involving the citizens in political governance. Discourse in this context is viewed as discursive practice, in the form of political propaganda; anti-corruption campaigns; socio-political mobilization; and recommendations for growth — all of these mediated in written texts. The analyses also show that metaphors, directive speech acts and questioning are used as discursive strategies.
2021. Social Media, Citizens' Participation in Elections, and the Proverbial Dividends of Democracy in Nigeria's Fourth Republic. In Global Perspectives on the Impact of Mass Media on Electoral Processes [Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, ], ► pp. 113 ff.
Jackson, Susan T, Rhys Crilley, Ilan Manor, Catherine Baker, Modupe Oshikoya, Jutta Joachim, Nick Robinson, Andrea Schneiker, Nicole Sunday Grove & Cynthia Enloe
2021. Forum: Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age. International Studies Review 23:3 ► pp. 1046 ff.
Titus, Olusegun Stephen
2017. From Social Media Space to Sound Space: Protest Songs during Occupy Nigeria Fuel Subsidy Removal. Muziki 14:2 ► pp. 109 ff.
Chiluwa & Adegoke
2013. Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media. Africa Today 59:3 ► pp. 83 ff.
Chiluwa, Innocent
2012. Social media networks and the discourse of resistance: A sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra online discourses. Discourse & Society 23:3 ► pp. 217 ff.
Chiluwa, Innocent
2015. Radicalist discourse: a study of the stances of Nigeria'sBoko Haramand Somalia'sAl Shabaabon Twitter. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 10:2 ► pp. 214 ff.
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