Impact of Social Media on Police Brutality Awareness in Nigeria

With the success and the user base of Social Networking Sites as tools for digital communication and exchange of information and its advancement in industrialization, science, technology, and various environmental issues taking place locally and globally, social media can be utilized as a tool to promote awareness regarding various current environmental issues in a much faster way and to a large mass within a very short span of time, this study investigates how Nigerians use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp as a platform to reach out to the world and Nigeria government to create awareness on police brutality in Nigeria which started with their request to End SARS( Special Anti-robbery Squad ) department. The findings indicate that the integral factor that helped in notifying the general public and pushed the government into taking fast action on the matter was social media, from where we know that it was the involvement of social media in the campaign that made the awareness spread at the speed of light, which might not have been so if it's through traditional means. <div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">With the success and the user base of Social Networking Sites as tools for digital communication and exchange of information and its advancement in industrialization, science, technology, and various environmental issues taking place locally and globally, social media can be utilized as a tool to promote awareness regarding various current environmental issues in a much faster way and to a large mass within a very short span of time, this study investigates how Nigerians use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp as a platform to reach out to the world and Nigeria government to create awareness on police brutality in Nigeria which started with their request to End SARS( Special Anti-robbery Squad ) department. The findings indicate that the integral factor that helped in notifying the general public and pushed the government into taking fast action on the matter was social media, from where we know that it was the involvement of social media in the campaign that made the awareness spread at the speed of light, which might not have been so if it's through traditional means. </p></div></div>