The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
Using Social Media to Advocate LGBT Rights in Black Africa: A Study of Nigerian and Cameroonian Gay Bloggers and “Facebookers”
Abstract
The prevalence of draconian homophobic laws in Cameroon and Nigeria has systematically stultified sympathy for the LGBT communities and made pro-gay street activism a risky venture in these two countries. In view of this, a good number of gay rights activists have resorted to the social media as a suitable platform for a less risky advocacy. Using the social media has afforded them the opportunity to explore interactive, post-modern, and personified approaches to sensitizing and mobilizing their readership in favour of gay proselytism in Cameroon, Nigeria, and some other parts of Africa. Based on a content analysis of 200 blog posts and web/facebook pages generated by Cameroonian and Nigerian gay activists, this chapter measures the extent to which gay activists adopt a national/local perspective versus the level to which they adopt an international perspective in their online advocacy. The chapter equally examines the degree to which these citizen journalist/activists construct their advocacy discourse from the prism of a cultural war between the West and Africa.
Related Content
|
James William Thomas.
© 2024.
24 pages.
|
|
Daniel J. Wilson, Ronan O'Meara Rock.
© 2024.
21 pages.
|
|
Genny Beemyn.
© 2024.
22 pages.
|
|
Amanda L. Mollet, Shay Valley, Brynn Fitzsimmons.
© 2024.
22 pages.
|
|
Victoria Barbosa Olivo, Kaity Prieto, Olivia M. Copeland.
© 2024.
21 pages.
|
|
Nicole Ianieri, W. Patrick Bingham.
© 2024.
20 pages.
|
|
Anne Campbell, Quintessence Townsend, Marissa Ruhno.
© 2024.
18 pages.
|
|
|