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“Death at the hands of police has not stopped. Since May 26, 2020 — the day after former officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd — police have killed at least 223 Black people” These are the type of Images and videos that elicit collective actions . Social media made it possible for everyone to see, first-hand, what happened to George Floyd.    The video was shared by someone whom, by normal standard, would not be considered influential— 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, and viewed millions of times across the world. The public did not need to see the incident through the lens and filters of mainstream media or high-profiled Hollywood celebrities. The video offered resounding proof to indict Derek Chauvin and three other police officers involved, resulting in Mr. Chauvin’s arrest and prosecution. This post was written as part of Scholarship discourse on media images, especially Social media images: with reference to Images and videos as an important source of information and news ...
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FG weighs in on Israel-Palestine crisis

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 The federal government has asked Israel and Palestine to guarantee the rights of their citizens to live in peace as hostilities continue between the two countries.


In a statement on Thursday, the federal ministry of foreign affairs also urged the two parties to de-escalate the hostilities.

A prolonged conflict between Israel and Palestine is fuelling the new fighting amid concerns that the situation could escalate and result in a war.

The statement from Ferdinand Nwonye, spokesman of the ministry, read: “The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to state that the Federal Government of Nigeria is watching with great concern the unfolding developments with Israel and the State of Palestine and urges both parties to see reason and de-escalate the hostilities.

“The Federal Government further urges the two parties to remain committed to the two-state solution and, in the meantime, guarantee the rights of all citizens to live in peace and dignity.”

The current crisis could be traced back to events leading to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 after Britain took control of the area known as Palestine following the defeat of the ruler of that part of the Middle East in the first world war.

The Jews claimed the land as their ancestral home just as Palestinian Arabs also laid claim to its ownership and opposed the move, resulting in a war.

The latest violence follows weeks of rising tensions relating to the decades-long conflict.

While Israel claims that more than 1,000 rockets have been fired into its territory by Palestinian militants, there have also been reports of its airstrikes on Gaza, which have led to civilian casualties.

This is an Artefact Blog created for the Master’s dissertation on Communicative influence of social media images on collective actions: A content analysis of images enhanced tweets and Facebook messages in reaction to the brutality of George Floyd. Using qualitative content analysis on a data set of 50 initial tweets and information on microblogging services of Twitter and Facebook in reactions to images of George Floyd's brutality by Minneapolis police officers, and about the preceding protests; this study examined the sentiment occurring in reaction to relevant tweets (and retweets) given the feature of "retweeting," while establishing the elicited negative /positive reactions for collective actions.

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