SOCIAL MEDIA AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...
Eleviv USA and Brainspec Nigeria, 2023
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Citizen engagement in scientific and technological issues is in vogue in recent years, and a variety of approaches intended to popularize science, technology and innovation (STI) and engender greater public understanding, participation and utilization of STI are occurring worldwide. Scholars and policy makers have increasingly advocated engaging citizens more substantially in the development of science and technology, and many Nigerian science and technology organizations are tending to promote science-citizen dialogue via the use of social media. This research, therefore, is a qualitative evaluation of the social media handles, accounts and pages of selected STI organizations in Nigeria to ascertain the deployment or otherwise of social media for the purpose of engaging with the public. Science communication in Nigeria is still fragile and agency-public engagement for most science organizations is frail, except for some efforts on Facebook. Thus, this paper calls on Nigerian STI institutions to ...
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | IDIONG, ABASIFREKE ; INYIENG, GODWIN MATTHEW ; ETTAH, NJAH BASSEY ; EDET, BLESSING GODWIN |
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Veröffentlichung: | Eleviv USA and Brainspec Nigeria, 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.10276634 |
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