Photographs are rarely given much academic attention, especially, in Africa. This is against
the popular use of photography in political communication. Against this background, this …

This chapter starts with the social media dissidence of the Twitter account@ ProfJNMoyo
(830,000 followers) because this example captures most of the salient features of social …

This chapter approaches human communicators as produsers (a combination of
'producer'and 'user') and explores how present-day media audiences increasingly create …

This chapter theorises counter-hegemonic acts of subversion in digital spaces. The study
looks at how Nigerian netizens faced with increased censorship, the state's brute force, legal …

The rise of nationwide protests across many countries in the world has the potential to make
or mar such countries. While research has greatly focused on the character, impact, common …

Protests appearing under the X (formerly Twitter) hashtag# BlackLivesMatter (BLM), which
has its roots in the United States stemming from police brutality, have also become popular …

Music has long been used as a means of protest and to satirize contentious issues in
society. This is owing to the popularity of the medium and its capacity to make poignant …

The chapter discusses the nexus of social media, dissidentiality, hunhu and democracy. This
chapter theorises the intersection of these elements with an aim to argue for a hunhu …

This study examines the influence of Twitter (X) in mobilising the 2020# EndSARS protests
in Nigeria. Enamoured with the capacity for mobilising for social action, X has become a …

The socially implemented digitalisation due to the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the
work of the civil society in low-and middle-income countries. This study aims to understand …