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1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) : illustrations |
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Media and communications--technologies, policies and challenges |
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Media and communications-- technologies, policies and challenges
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| Contents |
COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA ; COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS ; PRESENCE PLATFORMS, SOCIABILITY, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; MXIT, MIM, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING: AN OVERVIEW; PRESSENCE PLATFORMS ; TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIABILITY ; MOBILES FOR LEARNING (M4L) ; Exemplar A ; Exemplar B ; TechnologIES FOR PAL ; ALLAYING FEARS OF MOBILE AND MXIT ; FUTURE OUTLOOK ; CONCLUSION ; KEY TERMS AND CONCISE DEFINITIONS ; REFERENCES |
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THE DISCOURSE OF NOLITICS IN THE NAIJAPALS ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; NOLITICS ; WEBLOGS AND DISCUSSION FORUMS ; METHODOLOGY ; THE CORPUS ; Category Descriptions ; ANALYSES AND DISCUSSION; DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION ; CRITIQUES ; SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION ; ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN ; POLITICAL PROPAGANDA ; SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ; DISCURSIVE PRAGMATICS OF NOLITICS; METAPHORS ; DIRECTIVE ACTS ; INTERROGATIVES ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES; NEW TEXTUAL TERRAIN IN AFRICA: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH DIGITAL TEXTS IN SOUTH AFRICA ; ABSTRACT |
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INTRODUCTION DESCRIBING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT; CONTEXTUALISING THE STUDY ; NEW LITERACIES MULTILITERACIES AND MULTIMODALITIES ; SOCIAL SEMIOTICS ; THE STUDY; FANISA'S DIGITAL REPRESENTATION: FANISA'S HIGH SCHOOL LIFE ; SIHLE'S DIGITAL PRESENTATION: HIV/AIDS ; DISCUSSION ; Constructing Identities Multimodally ; Meaning as 'Design': Design to Re-Design ; Implications for English Teaching and Learning ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES; A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMERGING PARADIGMS AND PROMINENT FEATURES IN NIGERIAN SMS DISCOURSE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; FEAUTURES OF SMS |
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REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE METHODOLOGY ; COHESION ; ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF TEXTS ; DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS FROM THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES ; Reigious Texts (R1-R5) ; Social/Personal Texts (S1-S5); Business/Economic Texts (B1-5) ; Educational/ Institutional (E1-5) ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONAL EXCHANGES ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION ; AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE ; METHODOLOGY ; DATA ANALYSIS ; Sociolinguistic Indices in the Data ; Yoruba Proverbs in CMC as Sociolinguistic Nuance |
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CONCLUSION REFERENCES ; DISCURSIVE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FLAMING IN NIGERIAN ONLINE FORUMS ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; FLAMING AS AN IMPOLITE LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR ; PERSPECTIVES ON FLAMING ; THE DATA AND METHODOLOGY ; DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS ; DISCUSSION ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; CULTURE AND SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCIES OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) IN AFRICA ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL VARIABILITY ; Gender Disparity ; Oral Culture and Relationship ; DIGITAL DIVIDE ; LINGUISTIC CHALLENGES IN CMC ; THE DARK SIDE OF ICTS IN NIGERIA ; IMPLICATIONS |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Communication and technology -- Africa
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Digital communications -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Discourse analysis -- Africa
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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Communication and technology
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Digital communications -- Social aspects
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Discourse analysis
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Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
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Africa
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Afrika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taiwo, Olurotimi Adebowale.
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Chiluwa, Innocent.
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| ISBN |
9781621005452 |
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1621005453 |
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