Arts and Social Sciences Journal

Department of Mass Communication, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Calabar, Nigeria

Publications

• Research Article   
  Arts and the Law: Regulating Graffiti Writing in the Digital Era in Nigeria to Stem Abuses
  Author(s): Patrick Edem Okon*, Okon Effiong Udoyo and Nwanchor Uchenna Alefia
  
  This paper examined the relationship between graffiti writing and the law in Nigeria, with specific focus on the regulatory regimes available to graffiti arts and artists. Qualitative research design and methods were used, with oral interview and documentary study preferred for empirical investigations. Four respondents were orally interviewed. Some online documents – legal materials, newspaper reports, and academic writings – were also studied. Findings revealed that graffiti were now accepted as legitimate arts in Nigeria. In regulating the disturbing aspects of graffiti, the same sets of rules used for the mainstream arts were being applied. The available rules were, however, considered as inadequate for the effective governance of the online documented graffiti to control abuses. But where the existing rules were properly enforced and obeyed, there would be the rightfu.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2151-6200.2023.13.588

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