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Citizen Witnessing in the Dock: Lessons on Power and Privacy from the Ibom Air Incident

akinolaniyanSOCIETYSeptember 11, 2025

Watching the moments when two hitherto unknown, young Nigerian women were forced into our collective consciousness reminded me of what media scholars have been saying for a while: we are all accidental journalists now. The worrying thing for those who …

Aproko Doctor And The Genetically Modified Gospel Of Convenience

akinolaniyanSOCIETYAugust 1, 2025

There is no way we can know everything but at least, when it comes to social media, we know that the most harmful lies are disguised in slick but poisonous bottles of certainty – pushed by smiling charlatans pretending to …

TikTok, PhDs, And The Shifting Measurement Of Success And Social Value

akinolaniyanSOCIETYJuly 25, 2025

TikTok has never been my thing. I avoid that platform not because some of the viral videos have no cultural value but because the fleeting nature of most of them, somehow reminds me of the generally annoying dumbed-down standard of …

Neutrality Or Advocacy: The Impossible Choices For Nigerian Journalists In A Failing State

akinolaniyanSOCIETYJune 14, 2025

“Comment is free, but facts are sacred. “Propaganda,” so called, by this means is hateful” – CP Scott In trivialising the interesting exchanges between Lere Olayinka, senior special assistant on public communication and social media to the Federal Capital Territory …

Praise & Party: Sampling Nigerian Gospel Music Hits In The Nightclub

akinolaniyanSOCIETYJune 5, 2025

If the videos we are seeing on TikTok and other social media platforms are real, then clubbers might have had the inglorious opportunity to sample a gospel song and move their bodies on the dancing floors the same way Afrobeats …

Performance Activism And The False Prophets In The Public Sphere

akinolaniyanSOCIAL MEDIAMay 13, 2025

It seems that the thin line between advocacy and spectacle is disappearing at a dangerously faster rate than regulatory ability to maintain any meaningful oversight. Granted, in the chaotic digital landscape, outrage is not only a strategy, but also a …

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Citizen Witnessing in the Dock: Lessons on Power and Privacy from the Ibom Air Incident

Aproko Doctor And The Genetically Modified Gospel Of Convenience

TikTok, PhDs, And The Shifting Measurement Of Success And Social Value

Neutrality Or Advocacy: The Impossible Choices For Nigerian Journalists In A Failing State

Praise & Party: Sampling Nigerian Gospel Music Hits In The Nightclub

Mic Check or Mic Wreck? Podcasts And The Unsettling Culture Of Chaos

Viral Videos, Social Justice And The Demystification Of Power

God, Algorithms, and Livestreaming: The Political Economy of Pentecostal Church Broadcasting

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