Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchanged via radio, remain fundamental to ensure that the linguistic and cultural diversity of the world progresses despite colonizing pressures. Contributors present cases that explore how in...

This book explores the nature of hate speech on social media. Readers will find chapters written by 21 authors from 18 universities or research centers. It includes researchers from 11 countries, prioritizing a diversity of approaches from the Global North and Global South – Brazil, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA. The analyses herein involve the realities in an even larger number of countries, given the transnational appr...

This book examines the inherent issues and challenges associated with political communication in Nigeria; from politicians‟ utilization of various media of mass communication for political campaigns including information campaigns which the authors classified as policy campaigns; the attempts by the government to use various strategies for direct and indirect controls of free flow of news and information and the impact of ethnicity, regionalism and political personality cults or social eng...