Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - New Book Announcement/ Another One

Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia
A Comparative Analysis, 1st Edition
By Samuel K. Andoh, Bernice J. deGannes Scott, Grace Ofori-Abebrese
Routledge
144 pages | 3 B/W Illus

https://www.routledge.com/Economic-Development-in-Ghana-and-Malaysia-A-Comparative-Analysis-1st/Andoh-deGannes-Scott-Ofori-Abebrese/p/book/9781138486003



On 1/13/20, Farooq A. Kperogi <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> wrote:
> My new book titled *Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy,
> and Participation* has just been published by the University of Rochester
> Press. If you order it online from boydellandbrewer.com
> <http://boydellandbrewer.com/?fbclid=IwAR1GFHJuMvKnhVndwze2VKtvbR6APSW3KK4gGJF507hYn-pO8yo35jGOHVY>
> with promo code BB35 you will get a 35% discount.
>
> Please consider recommending it to your library.
>
>
> Here's the book's blurb:
> Over a decade ago, when Nigeria's migratory digital elite in the United
> States pioneered a newfangled form of citizen online journalism that
> disrupted the professional certainties of domestic legacy journalism, the
> country's professional journalists held out hope that the disruptive effect
> of this insurgent, non-professionalized, non-routinized but nonetheless
> transformative form of journalism would be transitory. But diasporic
> citizen online journalism is not only now an integral part of Nigeria's
> media ecosystem, it has also inspired successful homeland digital-native
> emulators and is challenging, even supplanting in some cases, traditional
> domestic media formations as sites of consequential democratic discourse.
> With Nigeria's frenetic and deeply engaged social media scene, diasporan
> citizen journalism, homeland news, and social media activism are merging to
> create the most energetic moment in Nigeria's media history. This book
> chronicles the emergence and transformation of Nigeria's diasporic citizen
> journalism from the margins to the mainstream of the country's journalistic
> landscape and draws parallels with the mainstreaming of alternative media
> formations in other parts of the world.
>
> Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Journalism & Emerging Media
> School of Communication & Media
> Social Science Building
> Room 5092 MD 2207
> 402 Bartow Avenue
> Kennesaw State University
> Kennesaw, Georgia, USA 30144
> Cell: (+1) 404-573-9697
> Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com
> <http://www.farooqkperogi.blogspot.com>
> Twitter: @farooqkperog <https://twitter.com/#%21/farooqkperogi>i
> Author of *Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English
> in a Global World
> <http://www.amazon.com/Glocal-English-Changing-Linguistics-Semiotics/dp/1433129264/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436569864&sr=1-1>*
>
> "The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either
> proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
>
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