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Countering Political Narratives through Nairaland Meme Pictures
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Countering Political Narratives through Nairaland Meme Pictures
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Countering Political Narratives through Nairaland Meme Pictures
2018
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As part of opposing Nigerian politicians' impunity, animosity and incompetence, Internet meme pictures were utilized on the politics thread of Nairaland.com, a Nigerian online community forum for engaging Nigerian societal issues. During Nigeria's 2015 electioneering, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their respective candidates, Goodluck Jonathan (GEJ) and Muhammadu Buhari (GMB), contested for the office of president, both claiming to be suited to effect new and positive changes within Nigeria's sociopolitical space. This narrative was naturally propagated in Nairaland discussions and meme pictures. Contestatory meme pictures, however, arose amidst Nairaland discussions to oppose this narrative, mimick, and ridicule it, instead condemning the candidates as corrupt and incompetent politicians. Twenty-one meme pictures have been selected through a non-participant observation of twenty discussions on the politics thread of Nairaland, during the electioneering period (the official presidential campaign dates) between October 2014 and January 2015. These are discussed using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) framework to examine the processes through which contesting issues of power are embedded within them. In showing how pictures become visual representatives (pictorial representations) of the different levels of political animosity and ineptitude exuded by Nigerian politicians, this paper thus reveals the protest value of Nairaland meme pictures in resisting the sociopolitical imbalances that characterize Nigeria's electioneering.
Les images mèmes ont servi à contester l'impunité, l'animosité et l'incompétence des hommes politiques nigériens. Cet article analyse ces images « mèmes » (memes) utilisées sur le fil « politique » du forum Nairaland.com, une communauté en ligne engagée sur les questions sociales au Nigéria. Pendant les élections de 2015, le People's Democratic Party (PDP) et le All Progressives Congress (APC) ainsi que leurs candidats respectifs, Goodluck Jonathan (GEJ) et Muammadu Buhair (GMB), se débattaient pour la présidence, tous deux prétendant être le plus apte à effectuer des changements positifs dans l'espace sociopolitique. Ce discours a été repris dans des discussions sur Nairaland et par le biais d'images mèmes. Ces dernières ont mimé, ridiculisé, et accusé les deux candidats de corruption et d'incompétence. Vingt-et-une images mèmes ont été sélectionnées, par l'observation (non participante) de vingt discussions sur le fil politique de Nairaland, pendant la période de la campagne électorale entre octobre 2014 et janvier 2015. Ces images sont étudiées selon le cadre de l'analyse du discours critique (Critical Discourse Analysis, CDA) afin d'examiner les processus de contestation du pouvoir inscrits dans ces images. En démontrant comment ces images mèmes deviennent les représentants visuels (et graphiques) des différents niveaux d'animosité politique et de l'inaptitude des hommes politiques nigériens, cet article révèle la valeur de contestation des images mèmes sur Nairaland qui résiste aux iniquités sociopolitiques ayant caractérisé la campagne présidentielle au Nigéria.
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