Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora

摘要: The enhanced discursive opportunity structures that the Internet enables has inspired a momentous revolution in Nigerian media landscape. This dissertation chronicles emergence and flowering of citizen alternative online journalism diasporic public sphere located primarily United States. Using case-study research, it profiles major diasporan outlets highlights instances where these geographically distant sites shaped influenced both national politics policies homeland practices domestic formation. study makes case while is customary scholarship on sovereignty, state-civil society relations, diaspora studies to emphasize domination onedimensionality cultural flows, participation members digital discourses their homeland, from exilic locations West through instrumentality media, illustrates citizens, especially age Internet, are not mere powerless subjects receivers informational flows institutions state corporate mass but can be active consumers producers resources even purveyors political power ways amply exemplify trans-local reciprocality. It also argues might very well prototype an evolving, Internet-enabled, trans-local, mutual exchange between educated deterritorialized ethnoscapes peripheral nations whose exile endues them with symbolic capital private governments homelands. recommends comparative Third World virtual diasporas West. INDEX WORDS: Alternative journalism, Citizen Deliberative democracy, Diasporic Guerilla Nigeria, Online Public WEBS OF RESISTANCE: THE CITIZEN ONLINE JOURNALISM NIGERIAN DIGITAL DIASPORA