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Oyeleye, Lekan and Ayo Osisanwo. 2013. Expression of ideologies in media accounts of the 2003 and 2007 general elections in Nigeria. Discourse & Society 24 (6) : 763–773.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper discusses how cover stories in two Nigerian news magazines, TELL and The News, convey the ideological pursuits of social actors in the Nigerian 2003 and 2007 general elections in a non-neutral way, using the polarization between the ideological ingroup and outgroup structures.