What could be called a digital turn has amplified conversations around publics, literary cultures, and African literature’s broadened genres. Drawing on conceptual frameworks and debates from literary, cultural, and media studies, Adeoba examines the literary imaginations and ekphrastic practices that emerge from the digital cultures of African Twitter users. Adeoba argues that crowdsourced verse demonstrates the creative agency of digitally connected everyday people and newer modes of sociality enabled by African poetry in digital contexts. Crowdsourced verse presents opportunities to examine the digital publics of African literature and their contributions to the body of literary works circulating in digital spaces.

所谓的数字化转变扩大了围绕公众、文学文化和非洲文学更广泛流派的对话。阿德奥巴借鉴文学、文化和媒体研究的概念框架和辩论，研究了非洲推特用户数字文化中出现的文学想象力和艺术实践。阿德奥巴认为，众包诗歌展示了数字化连接的日常生活中人们的创造力，以及非洲诗歌在数字化背景下带来的新的社交模式。众包诗歌提供了研究非洲文学的数字公众及其对数字空间中流通的文学作品主体的贡献的机会。