Fundraising Rhetoric in Nigerian Churches and Members’ Willingness to Give
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Publications
Online Activism and Connective Mourning: An Examination of the #EndSARSMemorial Protests in Nigeria – Uwalaka, Joe, Amadi & Amadi (2023)
Abstract Journal of Communication Inquiry 1–28 © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/01968599231190112 journals.sagepub.com/home/jci This study explores how Nigerians used social media platforms to mourn and memorialize protesters who were killed during the 2020 EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Data for this study are from tweets (N=67,678) that were scraped from the hashtags, “#EndSARSMemorial2” and “LekkiMassacre” and
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Peter Obi’s Speech at The Platform Nigeria by Dr. S. C. Joe
Abstract On October 1st, 2016, Peter Obi delivered a highly impactful speech entitled “Cutting the Cost of Governance in Nigeria” during a programme called The Platform Nigeria, organized by the Covenant Christian Centre. Obi’s speech rapidly gained widespread attention on various social media platforms and became the subject of extensive debate and scrutiny by legacy media.
Perspectives of Reality: The Framing of Boko Haram in Legacy and Social Media – Ph.D. Thesis by Sarah Joe
Abstract This thesis examines media framing of Boko Haram, a transnational terrorist organisation, in four Nigerian national newspapers and on Twitter. The study takes as its starting point a widely held view about a symbiotic relationship between the media and terrorism and argues that media framing of terrorism is driven by a variety of critical