Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria Yk James
How is social media activism in Nigeria--from GIFs to memes to videos--shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that also propels the activism?In Cultural Netizenship, James Yeku proposes the…
Specifikacia Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria Yk James
How is social media activism in Nigeria--from GIFs to memes to videos--shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that also propels the activism?In Cultural Netizenship, James Yeku proposes the concept of the internet citizen--netizen--as a way of articulating online self-performance. Yeku not only explores cultural politics by reading hashtags, political cartoons, and protest selfies as visual texts for postcolonial studies, but he also examines how netizens in Nigeria, a nation with one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa, perform popular culture on social media as a way to disrupt hegemonic narratives and state power. Each digital product is embedded with social and cultural meanings, all connected to Nigerian political narratives and the performance of civic agency by Nigerian netizens.A fascinating look at the intersection of