Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana

Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6443577
AutoresInnocent Chiluwa (0000-0002-4420-9709, University of Freiburg, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume27
Fascículo6
Páginas3193-3216
Data de publicação2024-01-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448231220919
OpenAlexW4390946358
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas39

This study examines aspects of online activism by women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana, especially by exploring their online campaign approaches. Applying the new social movement theories and methods in linguistic pragmatics and discourse analysis, the study examines and analyses how gender issues such as political participation and violence against women and girls are mediated discursively. The study further assesses the roles of social media in the campaign programmes of the women’s rights groups. Two groups each from Nigeria and Ghana are selected for the study. These are among the most active ones in the two countries with an efficient online presence. Findings show that the women movements adopt discourse-pragmatic acting strategies such as reporting, directing, demanding and identifying with women’s rights to seek redress to perceived gender injustice

Human rights · Inclusion (mineral · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Redress · Social injustice · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Social Media and Politics