May 2016

Expanding media arena, communication skills and youth participation in newspaper discourse

In Nigeria, newspaper arena for youth participation has been expanding in the past ten years, especially with the advent of the Internet. But researchers of youth communication seem to be drawn away from traditional media to Internet-enabled media thereby paying inadequate attention to this phenomenon. And it appears that, due to this inadequate attention, a clear case of increasing inclusiveness in Nigeria’s...

Author(s): Emmanuel C. Ifeduba and Olamide Bolarinwa