Full Description
This book explores how a globally-accessible online communication environment might provide Nigeria with the opportunity to strategically adopt elements of 21st-century online mass communication to encourage continued development in the future.
In this book, Adeyanju Apejoye, Andrew Danjuma Dewan, and Seamus Simpson argue that the most productive, innovative, and effective media systems are those which position accountability to public interest as a crucial factor in the proper functioning of news production and consumption. As the Nigerian news media system has undergone decades of nuanced change and development, the provision and consumption of both traditional and digital news has emerged as a significant topic in research on African media.
This book constitutes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the Nigerian news media system in the era of expanding digital information networks and service, providing nuanced analyses of news texts and offering a detailed critical exposition of the history and character of development in the nation.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nigerian News Media and the Journey to the Digital Age
Chapter 1. Understanding the History and Character of Nigeria: Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Ethnicity, Religion and the Evolution of Print Media
Chapter 2. The Features of the Nigerian Media and Press System
Chapter 3. Understanding New Media Systems: political economy, agenda setting, and news consumption
Chapter 4. Setting the News Agenda in Nigeria - the Reporting of Conflict
Chapter 5. The Internet and the development of online journalism and news commenting in Nigeria
Chapter 6. Responding to the news agenda online: commenting, discourse, and discord
Chapter 7. Understanding Nigerian Media in the Journey to the Digital
Chapter 8. A New Future for Nigerian News Media?
References
About the Authors
Index
