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    Engaging the Unwritten Text: The Role of Orality and Popular Culture in the Social Engineering Process of Postcolonial Nigeria

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Aloh, Eyitayo, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This study is an attempt to look at how orality plays a role in modern society to move people to action in a social engineering process. By examining the theories for the formation of publics as outlined by Jurgen Habermas and Michael Warner, I argue for the existence of an oral public and further show that it can be engineered with some of the tools provided. This theoretical foundation… more