- Title
- Virtual Activism: internet memes and political discourse in Nigeria
- Creator
- Jimoh, Ganiyu
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146767
- Identifier
- vital:38555
- Identifier
- http://www.tajuniuyo.ng/Virtual%20Activism%20Internet%20Memes%20and%20Political%20Discourse%20in%20Nigeria.html
- Description
- This paper examines internet memes as a unique form of narratives about political discourse in Nigeria. Through the use of social media platforms as a vehicle of political communication, internet memes about politics explore issues that contain visual metaphors aimed at provoking discourse and stimulate political participation. By employing semiotic theory, this paper examines 200 pictorial internet memes on Nigerian politics between 2015 and 2018. I argue that internet memes about politics are related to political cartoons in form and context. But unlike cartoons, memes require less artistic prowess and figurative expression in rendition but could achieve the same desire in viewers. Owing to their composition of easily digestible visual elements, they appeal to more audience who in turn could easily lend their voices to a popular meme by adding more textual or visual enhancement to create more layers of meaning.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- The Artist Journal (Taj)
- Relation
- Jimoh, Ganiyu. 2019. “Virtual Activism: Internet Memes and Political Discourse in Nigeria”. The Artist Journal (Taj) 3(1), April 2019, pp.115-125.
- Relation
- The Artist Journal (Taj) volume 3 number 1 115 125 April 2019 21422775
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