Cultural netizenship : social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yeku, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Since 2007
Internet and activism > Nigeria.
Internet > Social aspects > Nigeria.
Politics and culture > Nigeria.
Social media > Political aspects > Nigeria.
Cybermilitantisme > Nigeria.
Internet > Aspect social > Nigeria.
Politique et culture > Nigeria.
Médias sociaux > Aspect politique > Nigeria.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Internet and activism
Internet > Social aspects
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Social media > Political aspects
Nigeria > Politics and government > 2007-
Nigeria > Politique et gouvernement > 2007-
Nigeria
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

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