Adeola O Opesade

Biographic Data

ID4516407
NAMEAdeola O Opesade
GIVEN NAMESAdeola
FAMILY NAMEO Opesade
SIGNATUREOPESADE A O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ibadan
ORCID0000-0001-9241-2798
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Sexuality as a medium for political communication in Nigeria’s EndSars protest

    Sharon Adetutu Omotoso, Adeola O OpesadeARTICLEFeminist Media Studies2025References: 56

    The October 2020 EndSARS protest spotlighted social media dimensions and unfolding impacts to protest culture in Nigeria. Of specific interest to this study is how words depicting sexuality during protests mediate between political actors and processes, ultimately morphing into political communication. This study adopts a mixed critical content analysis research method. To highlight embodied mediatization as political communication, we engage cri…

  • Scientific information literacy, attitude and persuasiveness in decision making among Nigerian university students

    Open AccessAdeola O Opesade, Mutawakilu A TiamiyuARTICLEInformation Development2022

    Acceptance and and use of scientific findings have been reported to face challenges that are attributable to inadequacies of science and/or society’s inadequate scientific literacy and attitude. In view of the dearth of studies on these issues in Nigeria, this study explored the levels and variations in the scientific literacy, attitude to science, and persuasiveness of scientific compared to cultural knowledge in some personal decision making co…

  • Twitter-Mediated Enterprise–Customer Communication: Case of Electricity Distribution Services in a Developing Country

    Open AccessAdeola O OpesadeARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2021Cited by: 1References: 2

    Studies have shown that electric power supply failures can induce customers’ use of media for electric power–related communications. Nigeria is a country with considerably active users of social media but also with incessant electric power outages. However, no known study has been carried out on Nigeria’s electric power–related communications based on social media data. The present study investigated comparatively, the behaviors of companies and …

  • Gender divergence in academics' representation and research productivity: A Nigerian case study

    Adeola O Opesade, Kofoworola Folakemi Famurewa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Higher Education…2017Cited by: 2References: 25

    Gender equity is increasingly seen as an indicator of development and global acceptance in networks of higher education. Despite this, gender divergence in research productivity of academics coupled with under-representation of women in science has been reported to beset female's scholarly activities. Previous studies provide differing results, hence a need for each academic institution to know its status for the purpose of formulating appropriat…