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In the digital age, online platforms are critical for sociopolitical discourse, where individuals and groups express, debate, and negotiate meanings tied to identity, power, and ideology. Through social media, users engage in conversations that reflect broader cultural and political dynamics, often shaping public opinion and influencing real-world outcomes. The nature of online communication amplifies marginalized voices and increases polarization. Understanding the meanings in online sociopolitical discourse requires analyzing the content, context, intent, and reception of digital interactions. Further exploration may reveal how language can be a tool for resistance, manipulation, or solidarity in the contemporary sociopolitical landscape. Sociopolitical Discourse and Meanings in Online Communication explores the integration of sociology and politics into digital communication platforms. It examines the effects of sociopolitical discourse on media, journalism, online platforms, and cultural discourse. This book covers topics such as social media, public opinion, and digital technology, and is a useful resource for sociologists, political scientists, educators, media and communication professionals, academicians, and researchers.

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Rotimi Taiwo (Ph.D.) is a Professor of English and New Media Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Freiburg, Germany (September, 2008 - August, 2009). His research focus has been on the application of (critical) discourse analytic and text-linguistic theories to a wide range of discourse, such as those of the media, religion, politics, and popular culture and of recent, the Internet and telecommunications. He has authored and edited a number of books. Among them are Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction Volumes I & II (IGI Global, New York, 2010), Language and Mobile Telecommunication in Nigeria: SMS as a Digital Age, Lingual-cultural Expression (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife, Nigeria), Computer Mediated Discourse in Africa (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2012), The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2016). He was at different times the editor of Ife Studies in English Language and the coordinator of the Use of English program in his university.

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