Maggie Dwyer and Thomas Molony (eds.), Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security

Tuwei, David

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“…The reach and penetration of social platforms has been in geometric proportions within business, civil, government and individual circles. With efforts made by some governments to control its hold among citizens (Soh, 2020;Tuwei, 2020), Nigeria as at January 2021 had about 33.9 million active social media users (Kamer, 2022), a figure that has already been surpassed due to the influence of entertainment and electioneering across the globe. TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Twitter are amongst the most influential social media platforms all over the globe.…”

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Identifying Digital Aggression in Information Dissemination on Social Media: A Network Analytical Study

Odigie¹,

Irenoa²,

Sawyerr-George³

2023

IIJIK

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Text and memes are increasingly populated and used to spread information on social media like twitter. Sometimes these memes can have different meanings or connotations. This study was aimed at highlighting how such information in the form of memes or text are diffused on social media platforms, with Twitter the selected platform. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed method design which allows for in-depth analysis of quantitative results from the corpus of tweets. The findings indicate a growing use of a new terminology ―vawulence‖ over the period of eight months observed showing adoption and acceptance of the new variation for the word violence. The study also found that digital aggression (cyberbullying) has become more notable and on the rise particularly with the use of text and memes showing veiled and, in some instances, outright attempts at cyberbullying with new terminologies still arising (in the form of ‗wotowoto‘ and ‗collect‘ which mean a form of physical assault).

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