Social Media in Politics: Interrogating Electorate-Driven Hate Speech in Nigeria's 2019 Presidential Campaigns
Social media has become an indispensable and dominant means of communication and dissemination of information worldwide. This paper focuses on the use of Facebook by political supporters and electorates to canvass for support for their preferred presidential candidates in the 2019 general elections...
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Language: | English |
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Danube-University Krems
2022-07-01
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Series: | JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government |
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Online Access: | https://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/683 |