Citizenship, participation, and CMD: The case of Nigeria

Pragmatics and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-88

  Chiluwa, Innocent ^a,b  

^a Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blogs; Corruption; Discourse pragmatics; Discussion forum; New media; Nigeria; Nolitics; Political participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861758568     PISSN: 18789714     EISSN: 18789722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ps.3.1.03chi     Document Type: Article

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