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Rotimi Taiwo
Rotimi Taiwo
(Ph.D.) is a Professor of English and New Media Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Freiburg, Germany (September, 2008 - August, 2009). His research focus has been on the application of (critical) discourse analytic and text-linguistic theories to a wide range of discourse, such as those of the media, religion, politics, and popular culture and of recent, the Internet and telecommunications. He has authored and edited a number of books. Among them are Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction Volumes I & II (IGI Global, New York, 2010), Language and Mobile Telecommunication in Nigeria: SMS as a Digital Age, Lingual-cultural Expression (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife, Nigeria), Computer Mediated Discourse in Africa (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2012), The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2016). He was at different times the editor of Ife Studies in English Language and the coordinator of the Use of English program in his university.
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