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Due to low-entry barriers and user-based content, social media creates a platform where people of different social classes can engage and converse with one another. [3] With traditional media, the public did not have a space to voice their opinions about politics. [4] Social media enables people to create content and consume more content. [4]
In November 2019, the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, told a gathering at the Nigeria's National Mosque in the capital, Abuja that if China with over one billion people could regulate the social media, Nigeria should do same. [11] [12] [13] But Nigerians reacted saying Nigeria is not a one-party communist state like China.
Brown envelope journalism in Nigeria is a practice whereby monetary inducement is given to journalists to make them write a positive story or kill a negative story. [1] The name is derived from cash inducements hidden in brown envelopes and given to journalists during press briefings.
Twitter was blocked in Nigeria from 5 June 2021 to 13 January 2022. [1] [2] The government imposed a ban on the social network after it deleted tweets made by, and temporarily suspended, the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, warning the southeastern people of Nigeria, [3] [4] predominantly Igbo people, of a potential repeat of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War due to the ongoing insurgency in ...
Social media have been championed as allowing anyone with an Internet connection to become a content creator [7] and empowering their users. [8] The idea of "new media populism" encompasses how citizens can include disenfranchised citizens, and allow the public to have an engaged and active role in political discourse.
As many as 95% of teens ages 13 to 17 use social media, per a 2023 Surgeon General report, and at least 35% of these users spend more than two hours a day on social media, according to McKinsey.
In Nigeria, the freedom of expression is protected by section 39 (1) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria constitution. [1] Despite this constitutional protection, the Nigerian media was controlled by the government throughout much of its history, with some even to this day. By 2020, however, over 100 newspapers in Nigeria were independent. [2]
In correspondence with the statement that media effect is the result of a combination of variables, media effects can also be enhanced or reduced by individual differences and social context diversity. Many media effects theories hypothesize conditional media effects, including uses-and-gratifications theory (Rubin 2009), [53] reinforcing ...