Prof. Dr. Innocent Eberechi Chiluwa

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEnglish Language (Linguistics),Theatre and Media Studies
KeywordsMedienlinguistik, Critical Discourse Analysis, Computer-mediated communication, Development, Discourse

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityOta
InstitutionCovenant University
InstituteCollege of Leadership and Development Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian MairEnglisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2010

Program(s)

2009Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022Innocent Chiluwa, Isioma M. Chiluwa & Angie O. Igbinoba: "Herdsmen are terrorists": Analyzing news headlines on the herder-farmer conflict in the Nigerian press. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 69-92
2022Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022
2022Innocent Chiluwa: Introduction: Media, conflict and peace-building. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 1-16
2022Ada Peter & Innocent Chiluwa: Making a case for war: CNN and the representations of humanitarianism, Gadhafi, and NATO in the 2011 bombing of Libya. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 119-139
2021Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building. Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Introduction: discourse, conflict and conflict resolution. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse and conflict: Analysing text and talk of conflict, hate and peace-building. Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021. 1-16
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Researching the Language of Conflict. In: Research in Pragmatics, 3, 2021, 49-57
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Resisting corruption in the Nigerian legislature: A critical discourse analysis of news and opinion articles on legislators' salaries. In: Discourse & Communication (Sage), 15, 2021, 519-541
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana. In: Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis), 2021,
2020Innocent Chiluwa, Lily Chimuanya & Esther Ajiboye: Communicating Religious Extremism in West Africa. In: Joram Tarusarira & Ezra Chitando, Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa. Routledge (London), 2020. 166-179
2020Innocent Chiluwa & Isioma M. Chiluwa: Separatists or terrorists? Jews or Nigerians? Media and cyber discourses on the complex identity of the “Biafrans” . In: Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins), 2020, 583-603
2020Innocent Chiluwa & Isioma M. Chiluwa: “Deadlier than Boko Haram”: Representations of the herder-farmer conflict in the local and foreign press . In: Media, War & Conflict (Sage), 2020, 1-22
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier (eds): Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter. Nova Science, 2019
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Deception in online terrorist propaganda: A study of ISIS and Boko Haram. In: Innocent Chiluwa & Sergei Samoilenko, Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. IGI Global, 2019. 520-537
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2019, 0
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Sergei Samoilenko: Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. IGI Global, 2019
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Online activism in Mali: A study of digital discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. . In: Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier, Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter. Nova Science, 2019. 183-207
2019Gwen Bouvier & Innocent Chiluwa: Twitter – global perspectives, civic culture and moral affect. In: Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier, Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. Nova Science, 2019. 1-8
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. Nova Science, 2019
2019Innocent Chiluwa, E. Ovia & Emmanuel Uba : “Attention Beneficiary…! Assessing types and features of scam emails.'. In: I. Chiluwa & S. Samoilenko (eds.)., Deception, fake news and misinformation online . IGI Global, 2019. 421-438
2019Innocent Chiluwa: “Congratulations your email account has won you €1,000,000! Analyzing the discourse structures of scam emails.”. In: Tony Docan-Morgan (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave-Macmillan 2019. 897-912
2018Innocent Chiluwa: “SMS & Civil Unrest.” . In: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th edition. IGI Global, 2018. 6275-6285
2018Innocent Chiluwa: A nation divided against itself: Biafra and the conflicting online protest discourses. In: Discourse & Communication, 2018, 357-381
2017Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control.. Nova Science Publishers, 2017
2017Innocent Chiluwa: The discourse of terror threats: assessing online written threats by Nigerian terrorist groups. In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (Taylor & Francis), 2017, 318-338
2017Isioma Chiluwa, Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: “Online deception: a discourse study of email business scams.”. In: Innocent Chiluwa (ed)., Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control. Nova Science Publishers, 2017. 169-188
2016Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: Discursive pragmatics of t-shirt inscriptions: constructing the self, context and social aspirations. In: Pragmatics and Society, 2016, 436-462
2016 Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: Language use in crisis situations: a discourse analysis of online reactions to news reports of the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the Nairobi Westgate attack. In: Rotimi Taiwo & Tunde Opeibi, The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. Nova Science, 2016. 35-55
2016Innocent Chiluwa & Akin Odebunmi: On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland. In: Communication and the Public (Sage), 2016, 91-109
2015 Innocent Chiluwa: 'Occupy Nigeria 2012’: a critical analysis of Face book posts in the fuel subsidy removal protests. In: Revista Clina , 2015, 47-69
2015Innocent Chiluwa: Email Fraud. In: Karen Tracy, Cornelia Ilie & Todd Sandel International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction . John Wiley & Sons, 2015. 1-6
2015Innocent Chiluwa: Radicalist discourse: a study of the stances of Nigeria's Boko Haram and Somalia's Al Shabaab on Twitter. In: Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge) , 2015, 214-235
2015 Innocent Chiluwa: Text messaging in social protests. In: Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (vol.2) . IGI Global, 2015. 1011-1018
2015 Innocent Chiluwa & Emmanuel Uba: Texting and Christian practice. In: Zheng Yan Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (vol.1). IGI Global, 2015. 354-360
2015Innocent Chiluwa & Presley Ifukor: ‘War against our children’: stance and evaluation in #BringBackOurGirls campaign discourse on Twitter and Facebook. In: Discourse & Society (Sage), 2015, 267-296
2014Innocent Chiluwa, Presley Ifukor & Rotimi Taiwo (eds): Pragmatics of Nigerian English in Digital Discourse. LINCOM, 2014
2013Innocent Chiluwa & Adetunji Adegoke: Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media. In: Africa Today (Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA), 2013, 82-102
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Citizenship, Participation and CMD: The case of Nigeria. In: Pragmatics and Society (John Benjamins), 2012, 61-88
2012Rotimi Taiwo & Innocent Chiluwa: Computer-Mediated Discourse in Africa. Nova Science, 2012
2012Innocent Eberechi Chiluwa: Language in the News. Peter Lang GmbH, 2012
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Language in the News: mediating sociopolitical crises in Nigeria. Peter Lang, 2012
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Online Religion in Nigeria: the Internet Church and Cyber Miracles. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage: Los Angeles, London...), 2012, 734-749
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Social Media Networks and the Discourse of Resistance: A Sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra Online Discourses. In: Discourse & Society (Sage), 2012, 217-244
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Labeling and Ideology in the Press: a Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis. Peter Lang, 2011
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Media Construction of Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria. In: Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins), 2011, 88-108
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Media Representation of Nigeria’s Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta Crisis . In: International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011, 197-208
2010Innocent Chiluwa: The Media and the Militants: constructing the Niger Delta crisis. In: RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication (University of Southern Denmark press), 2010, 41-78