- Department of Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria
- I am Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD (Mass Communication). My areas of research interest are Gender Communication, Media Theories, Media Research and Digital Communication Technologies.edit
Northern Nigeria is currently enmeshed in dire security challenges. As kinetic security actions currently hold center stage, none-kinetic security activities like discourse about understanding the instigators of crime and criminogenic... more
Northern Nigeria is currently enmeshed in dire security challenges. As kinetic security actions currently hold center stage, none-kinetic security activities like discourse about understanding the instigators of crime and criminogenic activities need to come up for proper and holistic appreciation of the security challenges. Criminogenic media are media activities that are hypothesized to have direct causal or instigator relationship with actual crime and criminal activities in society. The study is premised on Foucault's Theory of Discourse in which discourse is shown to have power to influence people's mentality and prompt them to behave in certain ways. To appreciate criminogenic media nuances in some traditional Hausa songs and their instigator potentials to prompting crimes and criminal activities in Northern Nigeria, this paper engages the use of Descriptive Discourse Analysis to study some selected songs (as contained in an android app called Gangi) of Lawan S. Kila, a very popular Makadin Maza (Singer of Men) across Northern Nigeria. Findings from the discourse analysis of S. Kila's songs show high contents of criminogenic prompts like glamorization of willful murder, promotion of crime through infliction of grave body injuries to one's opponents and promotion of toxic masculinity. Therefore, this study concludes with a call for holistic understanding of crime inducing rhetoric as a way towards surmounting the dire security challenges bedeviling Nigeria.
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This study examines how sex workers are represented by news media in a male-dominated Nigerian society. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the different ways in which sex work, sex workers and their clients are constructed and... more
This study examines how sex workers are represented by news media in a male-dominated Nigerian society. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the different ways in which sex work, sex workers and their clients are constructed and examine how the news media orchestrate, coordinate and perpetuate male dominance through the portrayal of the sexuality of men and women. The study employed a qualitative method in the analysis of news contents from three news outlets in Nigeria. Data from the content analysis were triangulated with those from in-depth interviews with newsroom professionals and those generated through the documentary research method. The study found that sex work is constructed as a gendered profession, and the media help to systematically sustain the culture of hegemonic masculinity by re-echoing biased ascriptions between the women who provide sex services and the men who patronise these services. The study concludes that news media accentuate their power by pushing the women into deeper marginalisation through negative labelling and stereotyping. Such organised mediated victimisation of the women folks amplifies and perpetrates the male dominance. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications for overcoming discrimination and marginalisation of women in the society at both micro and macro levels.
