I Won’t Be Silent Anymore: Hashtag Activism in Nigeria

Akpojivi, Ufuoma

doi:10.1080/02500167.2019.1700292

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“…Like previous protests such as the 'Occupy Nigeria' protests (Uwalaka, 2017;, #BringBackOurGirls protest (Akpojivi, 2019;Chiluwa & Ifukor, 2015) and #socialmediabill protest (Uwalaka, 2016), the #EndSARS protests were reported to have been effective due to the diffusion and innovation in social media technologies. The 2020 #EndSARS and 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests have been observed to have sprang from social media platforms (Dambo et al, 2021).…”

Section: The 2021 #Endsarsmemorial Protestsmentioning

confidence: 77%

‘We Will Never Forget’: Thematic Analysis of Digital Media Contents during the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests in Nigeria

Uwalaka¹

2021

SMC

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The thrust of the study was to appraise the influence of social media in contentious politics and solidarity building by interrogating themes from tweets and posts of digital activists during the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests in Nigeria. The content analysis of digital media posts and tweets (N=24,688) show that social media platforms were used as a vehicle for provoking solidarity contagion that ignited a memorial for fallen activists in Nigeria. Findings further demonstrate that protesters used social media platforms to reveal how vexed, and anguished they were as well as imprecating the authorities. Data reveal that there is a substantial relationship between celebrity posts and tweets and positive hedonic experiential valence about the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests. Finally, this study explicates and contributes to the theorisation of the affective theory.

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Section: The 2021 #Endsarsmemorial Protestsmentioning

confidence: 77%

‘We Will Never Forget’: Thematic Analysis of Digital Media Contents during the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests in Nigeria

Uwalaka¹

2021

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“…Often used to bring visibility to a specific topic, hashtags have been shown to play an instrumental role on several social platforms, both in political campaigning and to rally citizens to activist movements. These social phenomena have been extensively stud- ied in India (Losh 2014;Panda et al 2020), Nigeria (Opeibi 2019;Akpojivi 2019) and Brazil (Almeida 2020;Soares and Recuero 2021).…”

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The Koo Dataset: An Indian Microblogging Platform with Global Ambitions

Mekacher,

Falkenberg,

Baronchelli

2024

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Increasingly, alternative platforms are playing a key role in the social media ecosystem. Koo, a microblogging platform based in India, has emerged as a major new social network hosting high profile politicians from several countries (India, Brazil, Nigeria) and many internationally renowned celebrities. This paper presents the largest publicly available Koo dataset, spanning from the platform’s founding in early 2020 to September 2023, providing detailed metadata for 72M posts, 75M comments, 40M shares, 284M likes and 1.4M user profiles. Along with the release of the dataset, we provide an overview of the platform including a discussion of the news ecosystem on the platform, hashtag usage, and user engagement. Our results highlight the pivotal role that new platforms play in shaping online communities in emerging economies and the Global South, connecting local politicians and public figures with their followers. With Koo’s ambition to become the town hall for diverse non-English speaking communities, our dataset offers new opportunities for studying social media beyond a Western context.

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“…Findings demonstrate that digital communities’ real-world change steered the agenda and pushed the Nigerian government to engage with the Chibok girls crisis in Northern Nigeria (Carter-Olson, 2016). These digital communities were led by international celebrities who championed the release of the Chibok girls by making people around them to participate and join the protest movement (Akpojivi, 2019; Endong, 2019; Olaniyan & Akpojivi, 2021).…”

Section: Digital Media and Socio-political Protestsmentioning

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Examining the role of social media and mobile social networking applications in socio-political contestations in Nigeria

Uwalaka

Nwala²

2023

Communication and the Public

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Social media platforms continue to flourish as practices encompassing them become deeply embedded in many cultures. As more people embrace social media platforms, their affordances and opportunities are leading to improved communication, and helping hold authorities to account. To further scrutinize the importance of these platforms, this study interrogates the role of digital media in socio-political contestations in Nigeria by examining the media used to mobilize, coordinate, and document the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Analyses of survey data collected in 2020 during the protests in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria (N = 391) show that demonstrators who were 30 years and older and used WhatsApp and Facebook to learn about the protests as well as coordinate their participation in the protests are more likely to report participating on the first day of the protests than protesters who are younger than 30 and used other media platforms. Findings further illustrate that digital enthusiasm facilitated by hedonic-experiential and epicurean communication on WhatsApp and Facebook eventuated a process of emotional contagion through connective repertoires that created propitious emotional conditions for mass collective protest actions. Finally, the article discusses how the use of WhatsApp and Facebook gave protesters strategic communicative power during the protests.

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I Won’t Be Silent Anymore: Hashtag Activism in Nigeria

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

‘We Will Never Forget’: Thematic Analysis of Digital Media Contents during the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests in Nigeria

‘We Will Never Forget’: Thematic Analysis of Digital Media Contents during the 2021 #EndSARSMemorial protests in Nigeria

The Koo Dataset: An Indian Microblogging Platform with Global Ambitions

Examining the role of social media and mobile social networking applications in socio-political contestations in Nigeria

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