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Farooq Kperogi is a Full Professor of Communication and Head of the Journalism and Emerging Media program at Kennesaw State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media in the United States. His scholarship sits at the intersection of media, technology, and global communication, with particular attention to how digital platforms reshape journalistic practice, diaspora discourse, and democratic participation.
He is the author of Nigeria\u2019s Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation (2020), an award-winning study of transnational digital publics, and the editor of Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa (2022), which examines the tensions between networked expression and state control. His earlier book, Glocal English (2015), explores linguistic transformation in a globalized media environment. His recent work extends into artificial intelligence in journalism, including a 2025 study on emergent AI practices in Nigerian newsrooms.
Professor Kperogi\u2019s research has appeared in leading journals across media and communication studies and has been recognized with national and international awards. A former journalist and widely read newspaper columnist, he brings a practitioner\u2019s sensibility to his academic work and bridges theory and real-world media practice. His current research interrogates the implications of AI, digital media and platformed communication for journalism, power and public discourse in the Global South and its diasporas<\/p>\n
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Farooq Kperogi is a Full Professor of Communication and Head of the Journalism and Emerging Media program at Kennesaw State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media in the United States. His scholarship sits at the intersection of media, technology, and global communication, with particular attention to how digital platforms reshape journalistic practice, diaspora discourse, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\r\n