ARTICLE SUMMARY
| Title: | Social Media and Media Liberalisation (A Critical Analysis) |
| Author(s): | Ezaka Simon Ndubuisi |
| Abstract: | The paper used the resources from relevant literature to elicit information that satisfies its broad objective of resolving the legitimacy crisis often posed against the social media, and then went further to affirm the fact that social media has facilitated Nigeria's time-honoured intention of liberalising its media landscape, rather vigorously. While anchoring the discussion of facts on the technological affordance theory, the paper explained social media as a concept and faulted the mainstream media, especially in their jaundiced approach to fulfilling the goals of pluralism and liberalisation to depict a gap in corpus literature. The paper then underscored how the social media has perfected the idea of media liberalisation (synonymously used with democratisation) as a germane reason for its legitimacy and adduced some scholarly ways which social media has been a panacea for the transformation of Nigeria's economy. Among various others, the paper recommended that rather than prohibiting social media use, there should be enabling regulations and ethics guiding the use, since it is already, arguably, paving its way into the mainstream media's heap. |
| Keywords: | : Social Media, Media Liberalisation, Nigeria's Economy |
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