[Air-L] Blogs & Twitter Research in the Nigerian Context

[Kamela Heyward]

Though I am not presently researching Nigerian Internet communication,  
I have a growing interest in this topic.  For the past year I have  
been writing my dissertation chapters in Ife, Nigeria.  While here I  
have been intrigued by Nigerians use of social media and would like to  
learn more.

I am presently finishing up my three year (2007-2009) online  
ethnographic analysis which looks at everyday dialogues on African  
American websites political message boards as an expression of  
political empowerment and contemporary African American community  
online.

If I can be of any assistance, let me know.


Kamela Heyward-Rotimi
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA  01003
ksh at anthro.umass.edu

Quoting walegzy at email.com:

> Dear Ifukor,
>
> I have been working on this area as far back as 2002 with Innovation  
> in Advertising: An Appraisal of Nigeria's Internet Marketing  
> (Unpublished B.A. Thesis, Communication & Language Arts Department,  
> University of Ibadan, Nigeria). I also did Semiotic Anlysis of  
> Computer-Mediated Communication in Selected Instant Messages of  
> Nigerian Students for my M.A. thesis at the same Department.  
> Published version of this can be viewed at  
> ckbg.altervista.org/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2008/.../shoki-paola.pdf
>
>
> I also have a chapter publication in Studies in Slang and Slogan  
> published by Lincom-Europa 2010, where I focus on the the linguistic  
> slang of Nigerian Internet Fraudsters.
>
> So far, I have been engaging in Internet Studies/New media for close  
> to a decade, and on it I am doing my Ph.D, using the theoretical  
> frameworks in Discourse Analysis (Pragmatics) and Cultural Studies.
>
> Let me know where I can be of help.
>
>
> 'Wale Oni
> Communication Studies Unit; Department of Languages & Linguistics
> College of Humanities & Culture
> Osun State University, (Ikire Campus) Nigeria
> +234 8056673899
> alt.email: olawaleoni at ymail.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Presley Ifukor <pifukor at yahoo.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Sent: Sat, Dec 18, 2010 6:42 am
> Subject: [Air-L] Blogs & Twitter Research in the Nigerian Context
>
> I am new to the list and was wondering if there's anyone working on Nigerian
> Internet discourse / communication.
>
>
> My paper on "Blogging and Twittering the Nigerian 2007 General Elections" has
> just been published in the December 2010 issue of Bulletin of Science,
> Technology & Society: http://bst.sagepub.com/content/30/6/398
>
>
> This article examines the linguistic construction of textual  
> messages in the use
> of blogs and Twitter in the Nigerian 2007 electoral cycle comprising  
> the April
> 2007 general elections and rerun elections in April, May, and August 2009. A
> qualitative approach of discourse analysis is used to present a variety of
> discursive acts that blogging and microblogging afford social media  
> users during
> the electoral cycle. The data are culled from 245 blog posts and 923  
> tweets. The
> thesis of the study is that citizens’ access to social media electronically
> empowers the electorates to be actively involved in democratic governance.
> Electronic empowerment is a direct result of access to social media  
> (and mobile
> telephony) by more citizens who constitute the electorates. This  
> encourages more
> public discussions about politics and makes the democratic process  
> more dynamic
> than in the pre-social media era. An analysis of the data shows that  
> there is a
> dialectical relationship between social media discourse and the process of
> political empowerment.
>
>
>  
> The paper is part of my PhD at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. The
> project's synopsis and related publications are here:
> http://www.ifaa.uni-osnabrueck.de/Sprachwissenschaft/PhdProjects-Ifukor
>  
>  
> Thank you and best of the season,
>  
> Presley Ifukor
> Osnabrueck, Germany
>
>
>
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