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We Are Not Parasites: Intergroup Differentiation in the User-Generated Content of Nigerian News Media

“…It also adds to studies on internet participatory (citizen) journalism and user-generated content by employing the tenets of the Social Identity Theory to explain Nigerian participation in the debate of public issues through the digital public sphere. Findings of the study have established that apart from the fact that social media provide the open space for political engagement, deliberative democracy, social interaction and expression (Conroy et al, 2012;Halpern & Gibbs, 2013;Yeku, 2016), political activism and social mobilisation (Nam, 2012) among other benefits, they also provide the space for negative discourse as evident in the UGC sections of Nigerian news media.…”

Trickster Politician, Democracy and the Question of National Development in Nigerian: A Critical Inquiry

“…Shure (2020) thinks that most tricksters are lower-class individuals. The trickster hero is often self-seeking, mean-spirited, irrational, and principally driven by a passion for selfglory which often end up hurting many and destroying the society (Yékú, 2016).…”