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Habermas In The African E-Village: Deliberative Practices Of Diasporan Nigerians On The Internet, Farooq A. Kperogi
Habermas In The African E-Village: Deliberative Practices Of Diasporan Nigerians On The Internet, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
This chapter examines a many-to-many, collaborative, transnational, diasporic sphere of public discourse called the Nigerian Village Square, which over the years has functioned as an arena for the vigorous exchange of ideas among Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora and as a veritable locus for the initiation of online petition drives to change or influence state policies in the homeland. It is the reinvention, in an electronic form, of the deliberative content of the “village square” in the pre-colonial African social formation where “people from all corners [met] at the Village Square after a hard day's work to …
“Fun With Plastic Sheeting:" Strengthening Your Emergency Preparedness, Chris Sharpe, Sandra Barclay
“Fun With Plastic Sheeting:" Strengthening Your Emergency Preparedness, Chris Sharpe, Sandra Barclay
Chris Sharpe
Learn how to better prepare your library and library staff for emergencies and disasters by using active training exercises, examining your emergency documents annually, and individually joining local community emergency groups. Learn to prepare fun and quick, but important, staff exercises; sources for enhancing your existing emergency documents; and how community based emergency organizations can provide further training and more opportunities to serve the community.
Glocal English: The Changing Face And Forms Of Nigerian English In A Global World, Farooq A. Kperogi
Glocal English: The Changing Face And Forms Of Nigerian English In A Global World, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author’s rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its similarities as well as its often humorous differences with British and American English. Although Nigerian English forms the backdrop …
Your Library @ Home: Document Delivery For The Online Learner, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum
Your Library @ Home: Document Delivery For The Online Learner, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum
Ashley T. Hoffman
Kennesaw State University has a growing number of distance education degree programs, and a growing number of online learners as a result. Since these students either rarely or never come to campus, they are unable to take advantage of many of KSU’s library resources. To accommodate the research needs of distance education students, KSU’s Interlibrary Loan department looked to implement a document delivery program to connect online learners with the print materials they would otherwise be unable to access. This poster outlines the research conducted, including a survey of the policies of comparable institutions, as well as the proposed policy …
News With Views: Postobjectivism And Emergent Alternative Journalistic Practices In America’S Corporate News Media, Farooq A. Kperogi
News With Views: Postobjectivism And Emergent Alternative Journalistic Practices In America’S Corporate News Media, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
One of the inchoate yet defining features of journalism in the twenty-first century has been the profession’s unannounced but nonetheless consequential repudiation of the time-honored journalistic ethos of ‘‘objectivity.’’ In this paper, I argue that the gradual renunciation of the ideals of objectivity in contemporary journalistic practice, especially in the United States which birthed the concept, is both a return to journalism’s roots and a back-handed, if profit-inspired, embrace of certain hallmarks of ‘‘alternative journalism,’’ which emerged as a counterfoil to nineteenth-century notions of ‘‘objective journalism.’’ I demonstrate my thesis by historicizing ‘‘objective journalism’’ and linking its emergence to multiple …
Ilibraries: Maintaining Relevancy In A Mobile World, Ariel K. Turner
Ilibraries: Maintaining Relevancy In A Mobile World, Ariel K. Turner
Ariel K Turner
Though the wealth of opportunities mobile technologies provide to libraries is widely acknowledged, some libraries continue to experience challenges when incorporating these technologies. These challenges include technological illiteracy, prohibitive cost, and the effect of these technologies on the traditional library environment. An examination of a variety of current literature and studies related to the incorporation of mobile technologies is necessary to determine how best to tackle these challenges, and suggests several methods of incorporating mobile technologies into academic libraries. Such methods include exploring technical blogs or classes, learning from technologically savvy peers, including tablets or other mobile devices in the …
―The Evolution And Challenges Of Online Journalism In Nigeria.‖, Farooq A. Kperogi
―The Evolution And Challenges Of Online Journalism In Nigeria.‖, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
The last seven years have seen the phenomenal growth and expansion of not only traditional online journalism but also social media online journalism in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. In this chapter, I trace the evolution and idiosyncratic features of online journalism in Nigeria, explore its variegated manifestations, capture the relational and professional tensions that have erupted between Web-only, mostly diasporan, citizen journalists and more traditional homeland journalists, and show how all this has altered journalistic practice in Nigeria. I also discuss the tensile relationship between citizen online journalists and the Nigerian government, a relationship that has led to the …
Information And Resources For International Policy Students, Chris Sharpe
Information And Resources For International Policy Students, Chris Sharpe
Chris Sharpe
A guide on international policy resources at Kennesaw State University Sturgis library. It was created for the online graduate students of the International Policy Management program.
Cooperation With The Corporation? Cnn And The Hegemonic Cooptation Of Citizen Journalism Through Ireport.Com, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Cooperation With The Corporation? Cnn And The Hegemonic Cooptation Of Citizen Journalism Through Ireport.Com, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
The literature on online citizen journalism tends to construe user-generated citizen media as inherently counter-hegemonic, as the emerging, as yet unformed but nonetheless virile antithesis to the traditional media. This article argues that while the vigorous profusion of web-based citizen media has the potential to inaugurate an era of dynamic expansion of the deliberative space and even serve as a counterfoil to the suffocating dominance of the discursive space by the traditional, mainstream media, we are now witnessing a trend toward the aggressive cooptation of these citizen media by corporate media hegemons. To demonstrate this, I study ‘iReport.com,’ a YouTube-type, …
Divided By A Common Language: A Comparison Of Nigerian, American And British English, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Divided By A Common Language: A Comparison Of Nigerian, American And British English, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
We all know that there is such a thing as British English; it is the progenitor of all subsequent “Englishes” (as professional linguists awkwardly call national and sub-regional varieties of the English language) in the world. And we do, of course, know that there is American English, not only because it is the earliest national variety to rebel against some of the quirky conventions of British English—a fact that inspired the celebrated Irish writer George Bernard Shaw to famously remark that “England and America are two countries divided by a common language”— but also because America’s current preeminent position in …
Overwhelmed By Research, Cheryl Stiles
Overwhelmed By Research, Cheryl Stiles
Cheryl Stiles
Poster design and production by Cheryl Stiles.
Hopkins-Stricken: Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Selective Bibliography, Cheryl Stiles
Hopkins-Stricken: Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Selective Bibliography, Cheryl Stiles
Cheryl Stiles
No abstract provided.
Freedom To Write: The Best Free Web Resources For Writers, Cheryl Stiles
Freedom To Write: The Best Free Web Resources For Writers, Cheryl Stiles
Cheryl Stiles
Forthcoming presentation for the Red Clay Writers Conference on Saturday, November 6, 2010.
Asymptotic Properties Of Equilibrium In Discriminatory And Uniform Price Ipv Multi-Unit Auctions, Brett E. Katzman
Asymptotic Properties Of Equilibrium In Discriminatory And Uniform Price Ipv Multi-Unit Auctions, Brett E. Katzman
Brett E. Katzman
This paper confronts the tractability problems that accompany IPV auction models with multi-unit bidder demands. Utilizing a first order approach, the asymptotic properties of symmetric equilibria in discriminatory and uniform price auctions are derived. It is shown that as the number of bidders increases, equilibrium bids converge to valuations in both discriminatory auctions and uniform price auctions where the price paid is determined by the lowest winning bid, thus indicating that the limiting case of these auctions correspond to price taking as in neoclassical models of consumer behavior. However, when the uniform price paid is tied to the highest losing …
Guerillas In Cyberia: The Transnational Alternative Online Journalism Of The Nigerian Diasporic Public Sphere, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Guerillas In Cyberia: The Transnational Alternative Online Journalism Of The Nigerian Diasporic Public Sphere, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
The last two decades witnessed the phenomenal migratory flows of Africans, especially Nigerians, to the West, including the United States, at a proportion outpaced only by the Transatlantic Slave Trade. While the political and economic consequences of the migration flows of Nigerians to the United States have been captured fairly robustly in the scholarly literature on globalization, there is scant attention to the transnational online journalistic practices of Nigerians in the diaspora and what impacts these practices have had and continue to have on not just the form and content of journalistic practices in Nigeria but also on the national …
Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
This paper is concerned with exploring the history, evolution, content, language and death of the Kparo newspaper, an indigenous, state-run minority language newspaper that was published between the mid and late 1980s in Baatonum (more popularly known as Bariba) language for the people of the former Borgu Local Government who occupy the westernmost fringes of Kwara State on Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic.
Thinking Style Differences Among Academic Librarians, Linda M. Golian-Lui
Thinking Style Differences Among Academic Librarians, Linda M. Golian-Lui
Linda M. Golian-Lui
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differences in thinking styles exist between senior level library administrators working in public and technical service areas in libraries with an institutional membership in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). To facilitate this investigation, the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire (InQ) and a demographic data form were distributed in a nation-wide survey. The study achieved an 80.3% (106) return rate, with a total of 97 surveys used for data analysis. The literature review is organized in three segments: definitional dilemma, theoretical framework, and review of previous research. The definitional dilemma addressed issues concerning …