Cultural netizenship : social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria /
How does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular forms--from GIFs to memes to videos--and become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of "cultural netizenship"--inter...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2022]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Afropolitan antiheroes and the performative politics of internet scambaiting
- 2. The memeification of Nollywood
- 3. Self-spectatoriality and the performance of political selves
- 4. Visualizing resistance and performing with the visual
- 5. Social media humor and carnivalesque aesthetics
- 6. Virality and instagram comedy in a state of pandemic
- Epilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of Recovery