Contestant Hybridities: African (Urban) Youth Language in Nigerian Music and Social Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Youth Language

Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (s4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Nassenstein ◽  
Paulin Baraka Bose
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
East African ◽  
Verbal Morphology ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Youth Language

Abstract Since the late 1980s, linguists’ analyses of Sheng, the urban youth language from Nairobi, have led to the growth of a considerable body of literature. In contrast, only a few studies are available that cover other youth registers from the Kiswahili-speaking parts of Africa. While most of the available studies either deal with techniques of manipulation or with adolescents’ identity constructions, our paper intends to give a comparative overview of specific morphological features of Kiswahili-based youth languages. While certain characteristics of Sheng (Nairobi/Kenya), Lugha ya Mitaani (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania), Kindubile (Lubumbashi/DR Congo) and Yabacrâne (Goma/DR Congo) largely diverge from East Coast Swahili (hereafter ECS) in regard to their nominal and verbal morphology, they all share specific features. Focusing on (apparent) supra-regional developments and changes in Kiswahili, this preliminary description of some structural features that transcend all four youth language practices aims to provide comparative insights into urban register variation, approaching East African youth languages from a micro-typological perspective.

scholarly journals A trend study in the stratification of social media use among urban youth: Chile 2009-2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Correa ◽  
Sebastián Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Trend Study ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
Youth Media ◽  
Probabilistic Survey ◽  
Over Time

This trend study describes changes and continuities in the stratification of usage of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp in Chile between 2009-2019—the decade that witnessed the rise of social media. Using the Youth, Media and Participation Study—a probabilistic survey conducted on an annual basis among 1,000 individuals aged 18 to 29 living in the three largest urban areas in Chile (N = 10,518)—we analyze how frequency of use and type of activities conducted on social media has varied over time along socioeconomic status, gender, and age cohort. Instead of a uniform trend towards less (or greater) inequality, the results show that each platform exhibits a unique dynamic. For instance, whereas SES-based inequality in frequency of use has decreased on Facebook over time, it has remained stable on WhatsApp and increased on Twitter and Instagram. In addition, significant differences in the likelihood of conducting different activities (e.g., chatting, commenting news, sharing links) remained across groups, even on platforms such as Facebook where frequency of use has equalized over time.

scholarly journals Tren Baru Islam melalui Gerakan Hijrah: Studi Kasus Shift Pemuda Hijrah

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Paelani Setia ◽  
Rika Dilawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Islamic Values

This article aims to discuss the strategy of the hijrah movement in utilizing the hijrah trend in urban areas. This study takes a case study on the religious youth movement, the Youth Hijrah Movement (Shift) in Bandung City, in actualizing Islamic values that are packaged in a contemporary way according to the millennial generation. The research method used is qualitative by exploring understanding and responses through interviews with administrators, members, and congregations regarding Shift's contribution in spreading Islam conventionally and through social media platforms. The results of this study state that Shift takes advantage of the trend of migration due to the phenomenon of urban youth spirituality drought through interesting and useful religious programs for the wider community. The Shift is a manifestation of the existence of a Cyber Islamic Environment or an Islamic cyber environment in cyberspace that is used to convey Islamic messages. The activities of the Shift movement that are packaged on social media platforms and their interactions with the congregation are the new face of Islam in cyberspace. In addition, to accommodate traditional religious traditions such as Islamic boarding schools, the Shift also makes symbolic efforts to use its learning methods like an Islamic boarding school.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN NILAI-NILAI ISLAM PADA REMAJA PERKOTAAN (Studi tentang Aktivitas Dakwah Bikers Subuhan Manado)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Mardan Umar ◽  
Mona Fatnia Mamonto ◽  
Ismail K Usman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Funding Support ◽  
Islamic Values

This study aims to examine efforts to educate Islamic values in urban youth, especially in Bikers Subuhan Manado. The research problem raised is how the efforts to educate Islamic values in Bikers Subuhan Manado, the programs implemented and what factors influence the education of Islamic values in urban youth. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that efforts to educate Islamic values in urban youth, especially in the Bikers Subuhan Manado, are carried out with dawn congregation activities from mosque to mosque, Islamic religious studies, and mosque cleaning activities. The implementation of the Bikers Subuhan Manado program is aimed at increasing adolescent insights about Islamic values, improving worship, without leaving hobbies such as gathering and riding motorbikes. Factors supporting the educational activities of Islamic values in urban youth are the characteristic concepts and approaches of adolescent coaching, the existence of social media as a means of socializing programs and platforms for the existence of adolescents and support from the community. While the inhibiting factors are psychological factors of adolescents and lack of activity funding support.

The Invisible Niche of AUYL

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W. Rudd
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social World ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
African Cities ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Youth Language ◽  
Modern Identity ◽  
The Invisible

In African cities, postcolonial ambiguity and contradiction bombard speakers, who hybridize traditional values with new urban identities and successfully bridge the old to the new with African Urban Youth Language (AUYL), a term inclusive of argot, slang, and register usage. Sheng, the AUYL from Nairobi, Kenya, exemplifies the metaphorical reversal of the old colonial order, symbolizing an invisible niche binding speakers neither to the traditional ethnic role nor to the old colonial empire and providing a sense of cosmopolitanism. African youth construct this new and modern identity, but the elites, seeing only fragmented nonstandard usage, treat the AUYL as illegitimate in order to render it nonexistent. This sociocultural chapter explores grammatical tendencies and lexical manipulations to disclose how AUYL is a “stylistic practice” (Eckert 2008) or bricolage (Hebdige 1979) that empowers speakers to construct a more complex, and meaningful, postcolonial social world.

Beyond Web 2.0. Social Media and Urban Educated Youths Participation in Kenyan Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 176-193
Author(s):  
Julius Mwashimba M. Kirigha ◽  
Lynete Lusike Mukhongo ◽  
Robert Masinde
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The purpose of the study, was to contribute to a further understanding of the shifting dynamics in youth political communication enabled by advancements in ICTs and explore the extent to which social media use has impacted on both institutional and extra-institutional political participation. The study sought to critically analyse the relationship between social media use and urban youth political participation by integrating both probability and non-probability sampling techniques to generate data using web based questionnaires and Focus Group Discussions among undergraduate students aged 18-24 years. From the findings it emerged that a majority of educated urban youth prefer to use Facebook to access political information. In addition, the users viewed social media as a free space where they could express their political views without censorship or regulation. As a result, it was established that as the use of social media increases, so does participation in politics, indicating a positive relationship between how youth use social media and their participation in politics.

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