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Ifukor, Presley. ""Elections" or "Selections" ? Blogging the Nigerian 2007 General Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241017_index.html>

Ifukor, P. , 2008-07-31 ""Elections" or "Selections" ? Blogging the Nigerian 2007 General Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241017_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: A fundamental claim in this paper is that blogging is a form of work whose initiator's sole aim is doing grassroots reporting, commenting on events, analyzing reactions to happenings and ultimately effecting social change via people-oriented actions. Opinions can be formulated on weblogs for eventual transformation into major developmental policies that have far reaching implications on the life, aspiration and future of a people. The paper integrates Schmidt's (2007) analytical model of blogging practices as a conceptual framework for advocating blogging as social action. Weblogs are influential political tool for mobilization and Nigerian bloggers made good use of this platform to educate, enlighten, and encourage eligible voters to perform their civic duties before and during the Nigerian 2007 General Elections. Blog posts from 8 January 2005 to 2 January 2008 are culled as data for this study. We also show that linguistic items encode a variety of actions. Whereas 'elect(ion)' enhances civic fulfilment, 'select(ion)' evokes apathy in the minds of electorates. Moreover, the use of 'elect(ion)' indicates citizen participation whereas 'select(ion)' is indicative of civic deprivation. These two lexical cognates express the mood and attitudes of the electorates towards the Nigerian 2007 General Elections.

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