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Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative contribution to the literature on digital activism and cyberconflicts. Analysing sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts within an African-centred context, the author uses Nigeria as a lens to understand the digital and organisational aspects of digital media uses in the Occupy Nigeria movement protest, the Boko Haram conflict and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) conflict.
Timely, in a period of intense conflict across the globe, the author employs an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the Cyberconflict Framework to examine conflicts emerging in computer-mediated environments.
Examining the implications for socio-political and economic reform and change, the cases explored provide a snapshot of the emerging digital culture of conflict. The book contributes to existing knowledge by bridging the gap in the literature on digital activism and conflict as a field of study.
Trade ReviewThe author examines the use of information and communication technologies by non-institutional actors in conflict with the state in the political movements Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram, and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, to consider mobilization among contemporary movements in Nigeria and digital activism and cyberconflicts in a developing non-Western context. He uses semi-structured interviews, online news materials, online videos, and social media/blogs to explore the environment of conflict, including the political landscape, media landscape, and the development of information and communication technology infrastructure from a historical perspective; key debates on information technology uses in computer-media environments and youth engagement and digital activism in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world; the Occupy Nigeria movement and the role of digital media in mobilizing structures, opportunity structure, and framing during the January 2012 protest; the role of digital media in Boko Haram and the mobilization, opportunity structure, and framing processes of the movement and other parts of the ethnoreligious cyberconflict framework; and the role of digital media in the activities of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. The book is based on the author's doctoral dissertation and has been revised to include recent conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Mapping the Political Economy of Media Industry and ICT Infrastructural Development in Nigeria Chapter 3. Theoretical Accounts of Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts Chapter 4. The Occupy Nigeria Protest Chapter 5. The Boko Haram Conflict Chapter 6. The Movement for the Emancipation of The Niger Delta (MEND) Chapter 7. The Use of Information and Communication Technologies on Conflicts: A Reappraisal
