Everyday Life with the New Media by Sola Fagorusi
For most people in my generation, we are swiftly adjusting to the new definition of ‘new’. For people outside my generation, they are also being ‘forced’ to adjust to what ‘new’ in the sense of the...
View Article‘What Citizen Journalism should be’ by Sola Fagorusi
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. Janet Cooke’s story was classic and brilliant and she knew that. Titled – Jimmy’s World, Janet skilfully told the story of an 8 year old that had been hooked...
View ArticleGoogle Plus: Really a Plus? by Sola Fagorusi
The numero uno search engine – Google continues to lead the global search industry. There is nobody who uses the World Wide Web without deploying Google at some point. Very handy in finding...
View ArticleThe Nigerian Police: Bullets, Blogs and Blood by Sola Fagorusi
Once again, the world felt cold. The United States of America had been hit. A twin bomb had been let off in Boston, capital of Massachusetts. Back home, the Boko Haram sect continues to wage war...
View ArticleAPPLY: Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunity, Tanzania
Venue: KINU Co-Creation and Innovation Space, 1st Floor Conservation House Plot No.245, A. H. Mwinyi Road, Dar es Salaam Date and time: 24- 28 June, 2013 (9:00 – 17:00) Technological innovation is...
View ArticleParents as Digital Guardians by Sola Fagorusi
It no longer takes a village to raise a child. That’s anachronistic. Today, it takes the world to raise a child! One of the greatest influences I had as an adolescent came in form of information about...
View ArticleNational Security and the Freedom to Ping by Sola Fagorusi
Dedicated consumers of news would remember the man behind the name Edgar Hoover. He was the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI in the United States of America. Edgar held...
View ArticleIf Gani Fawehinmi was on Twitter by Sola Fagorusi
It was an afternoon, I had just finished a continuous assessment exam when the news came that Gani, like we were wont to affectionately call him, was already on the campus to receive an honorary degree...
View ArticleASUU Strike: The Untold New Media Story
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on strike for 56 days. It translates that public universities students across the country have had to put the noble quest for knowledge within the four...
View ArticleB.Sc. Social Media: NUC’s New Burden By ‘Sola Fagorusi
About two months ago, the National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie mentioned that 70 additional universities have been added to the existing number we have...
View ArticleWhat 2015 and Social Media have in common
By ‘Sola Fagorusi Dear readers, Happy 2015 whilst I also wish you a purposeful year. It is the season of predictions and discerning Nigerians can even predict some predictions! We love to be...
View ArticleAPPLY: Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunity, Tanzania
Venue: KINU Co-Creation and Innovation Space, 1st Floor Conservation House Plot No.245, A. H. Mwinyi Road, Dar es Salaam Date and time: 24- 28 June, 2013 (9:00 – 17:00) Technological innovation is...
View ArticleParents as Digital Guardians by Sola Fagorusi
It no longer takes a village to raise a child. That’s anachronistic. Today, it takes the world to raise a child! One of the greatest influences I had as an adolescent came in form of information about...
View ArticleNational Security and the Freedom to Ping by Sola Fagorusi
Dedicated consumers of news would remember the man behind the name Edgar Hoover. He was the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI in the United States of America. Edgar held...
View ArticleIf Gani Fawehinmi was on Twitter by Sola Fagorusi
It was an afternoon, I had just finished a continuous assessment exam when the news came that Gani, like we were wont to affectionately call him, was already on the campus to receive an honorary degree...
View ArticleASUU Strike: The Untold New Media Story
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on strike for 56 days. It translates that public universities students across the country have had to put the noble quest for knowledge within the four...
View ArticleB.Sc. Social Media: NUC’s New Burden By ‘Sola Fagorusi
About two months ago, the National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie mentioned that 70 additional universities have been added to the existing number we have...
View ArticleWhat 2015 and Social Media have in common
By ‘Sola Fagorusi Dear readers, Happy 2015 whilst I also wish you a purposeful year. It is the season of predictions and discerning Nigerians can even predict some predictions! We love to be...
View ArticleENTER: The Billboard Art Competition 2016
Entries are open for the billboard Art Competition 2016. The billboard Art Competition seeks to promote and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality....
View ArticleAPPLY: The Wells Art Contemporary Awards 2016
The Wells Art Contemporary Awards is an international open competition for contemporary visual art that is gaining praise and respect in Britain and abroad. It was established five years ago by a group...
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