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Title The discourse of digital civic engagement : perspectives from the developing world / editors, Rotimi Taiwo and Tunde Opeibi (Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of Lagos, Nigeria)
Published Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Electronics and telecommunications research
Electronics and telecommunications research.
Contents Digital media and civic engagement in Nigeria : a corpus-assisted discourse study of president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's Facebook / Tunde Opeibi -- Language use in crisis situations : a discourse analysis of online reactions to digital news reports of the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the Nairobi Westgate attack / Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye -- A multimodal analysis of the public discourse of the 2013 university lecturers' strike in Nigeria / Mohammed Ademilokun -- Sentence typologies and civic engagement in Nairaland forum / Yetunde Idehen & Rotimi Taiwo -- The "eboliticization" of discourse : online legitimations on the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa / Ikenna Kamalu -- Finding their feet : digital immigrants in a "natives" generation contrasting the use of SMS and IM in everyday communication / Ayo Onanuga & Emmanuel Taiwo Babalola -- Visual representation of power in selected online Nigerian newspapers' political cartoons / Felicia Oamen & Micheal Olusegun Fajuyigbe -- Personal branding styles on some social networking sites / Olaosun Ibrahim Esan & Oyebamiji Mojirayo Patricia -- Discourse of online preaching : a stylo-linguistic analysis of pastor Tunde Bakare's sermons on religion, politics and poverty in Nigeria / Adegboye Adeyanju -- The discursive features of Nigerian online political cartoons / Oludele, E. Omobola
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Nigeria -- Case studies
Digital media -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Digital media -- Political aspects -- Nigeria -- Case studies
Developing Countries
Nigeria.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
Political participation -- Technological innovations
Digital media -- Political aspects
Developing countries
Nigeria
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Taiwo, Rotimi (Dr.), editor.
Opeibi, Babatunde Olusola, editor
LC no. 2016000832
ISBN 9781634841214
1634841212