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E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot's interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature
Y. J. Waliya
Explore how social media affordances enabled an automatic, multilingual WhatsApp/SMS chatbot—launched by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control with UNICEF on the U-Report platform—to counter COVID-19 misinformation in Nigeria. The essay describes a five-language SMS-Chatbot (English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo) and presents a techno-discursive analysis of the extracted English version as a digital literary practice, “WhatsApperature.” Research conducted by Yohanna Joseph Waliya (University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria).
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