Presley Ifukor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Presley Ifukor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Presley |
| FAMILY NAME | Ifukor |
| SIGNATURE | IFUKOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
War against our Children’
The #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook was not only a global campaign for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but also a campaign for the rights of female children and girls to formal education. This article applies the appraisal framework and (critical) discourse analysis to examine the discursive features of this campaign and the role of affective stance in the evaluation of social acto…
Linguistic Marketing in “ … a marketplace of ideas ”
The virtual community under consideration is called the Nigerian Village Square (NVS), ‘... a marketplace of ideas ’. As an online discussion forum, NVS combines the features of listservs and newsgroups with a more elegant and user-friendly interface. While computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies augment political discourse in established democracies, new media and mobile technologies create avenues for a virtual sphere among Nigerians…
Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication
Since its coinage by Hiltz and Turoff (1978) the term computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been adapted and broadly conceptualised as interactive communication by and among human beings via networked computers and mobile devices. Several definitions of CMC have been offered in the literature but Herring's (2007) definition of CMC as ‘predominantly text-based human–human interaction mediated by networked computers or mobile telephony’ is adop…
“Elections” or “Selections”? Blogging and Twittering the Nigerian 2007 General Elections
This article examines the linguistic construction of textual messages in the use of blogs and Twitter in the Nigerian 2007 electoral cycle comprising the April 2007 general elections and rerun elections in April, May, and August 2009. A qualitative approach of discourse analysis is used to present a variety of discursive acts that blogging and microblogging afford social media users during the electoral cycle. The data are culled from 245 blog po…
War against our Children’
The #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook was not only a global campaign for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but also a campaign for the rights of female children and girls to formal education. This article applies the appraisal framework and (critical) discourse analysis to examine the discursive features of this campaign and the role of affective stance in the evaluation of social acto…
“Elections” or “Selections”? Blogging and Twittering the Nigerian 2007 General Elections
This article examines the linguistic construction of textual messages in the use of blogs and Twitter in the Nigerian 2007 electoral cycle comprising the April 2007 general elections and rerun elections in April, May, and August 2009. A qualitative approach of discourse analysis is used to present a variety of discursive acts that blogging and microblogging afford social media users during the electoral cycle. The data are culled from 245 blog po…
Linguistic Marketing in “ … a marketplace of ideas ”
The virtual community under consideration is called the Nigerian Village Square (NVS), ‘... a marketplace of ideas ’. As an online discussion forum, NVS combines the features of listservs and newsgroups with a more elegant and user-friendly interface. While computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies augment political discourse in established democracies, new media and mobile technologies create avenues for a virtual sphere among Nigerians…
Spelling and simulated shibboleths in Nigerian computer-mediated communication
Since its coinage by Hiltz and Turoff (1978) the term computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been adapted and broadly conceptualised as interactive communication by and among human beings via networked computers and mobile devices. Several definitions of CMC have been offered in the literature but Herring's (2007) definition of CMC as ‘predominantly text-based human–human interaction mediated by networked computers or mobile telephony’ is adop…
War against our Children’
The #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook was not only a global campaign for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but also a campaign for the rights of female children and girls to formal education. This article applies the appraisal framework and (critical) discourse analysis to examine the discursive features of this campaign and the role of affective stance in the evaluation of social acto…
Sociology (4 works) · Digital Communication and Language (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)