Just two days before the Ethiopian Airline flight crashed and ended the lives of 157 people, I was teaching a Tutorial Class of Year 2, Media Studies, where we discussed the ‘Algorithm Culture’ and how it’s shaping communication in the …
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Three videos clips, of prominent politicians, which surfaced on social media in the course of the 2019 general powerfully reinforced the changing media landscape. The videos of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State, Adebayo …
Democracy thrives when the media is effective, this meaning the provision of accurate, useful information in a way that readers or users can make informed decisions. You have to agree with those who say the quality of the media often …
How do you get noticed in a crowded media market like Nigeria? To attempt to answer this question we have to look at what desperate young folks who don’t have the financial muscle of the big brands are doing on …
‘When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good’ – Steven Brill It was a conversation with my supervisor, a Nigerian academic at the Wits …
Many appear to be excited when Facebook announced new restrictions on political advertising designed to prevent meddling in Nigerian and other countries with big elections this year. The new rules mean only advertisers located in the country would henceforth be …
Journalism thrives on the principles of ‘accuracy and reliability,’ which are institutionalised through the process of clarification and correction. No thanks to the diffusion of new media, this strict code is gradually being eroded in Nigeria by fake news and …
In this interview with Professor Geert Lovink, I take him up on a number of issues in his book, ‘Networks without a cause: A critique of social media‘ He sounds very much like a techno-pessimist. When I first read the …
That the Nigerian media is sick is beyond question. Maybe the only question that’s difficult to answer is, ‘how sick is it.’ The idea here is to open a debate on much-needed reform that’s needed if the media is to …
Much has been made of the cancellation of the planned protests spearheaded by music star, Tuface Idibia. I thought people expected too much from the young man obviously because of the ‘noise’ on social media calling people out to protest …
