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According to McQuail [2000], the word...
Background of the Study
The purpose of this study is to see how pornographic film exposure affects undergraduate students at the University of Lagos. As a form of communication, film is classified as part of the mass media. As a result, it is linked to...
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As a watchdog and a mirror of the country, the media plays an important role in society and has a significant effect on editorial policy. We will include not only the mechanical devices that transmit and sometimes, messages (TV c...
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Purdar is a very harsh kind of rejection of women's participation rights. Women encounter a variety of impediments to full involvement in different parts of social life in Nigeria, owing to established cultural beliefs that d...
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During the past decade and a half, Nigeria had an extraordinary succession of agitations in the form of kidnappings and abductions, armed robberies, bombings, and carnages of varying magnitudes. Despite the fact that kidnapping h...
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In today's dynamic Nigerian culture, the significance of broadcasting and broadcast media as agents of rural and national development, particularly at the information dissertational level, is now well acknowledged and embrace...
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Communication's role in fostering a feeling of belonging and social responsibility among members of a society is strongly entrenched in its ability to provide individuals with knowledge and information that may lead to self-d...
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Home movies are valued as a means of mass communication all over the world. In Nigeria, there are about one million home movie film viewers who are influenced in some manner by the themes addressed in Nigerian home movies. The...
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The government employs the majority of workers, with private individuals employing just a small percentage of the workforce (Fajara, 2000). Labour unions have been key agents of socio-economic transformation and class struggle in Nigeria (...
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The media, particularly television, plays a critical role in promoting national integration. Since its inception, television has grown to be a very essential and powerful medium of public communication. Its synchronized broadcast...
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Media as a watchdog and the mirror of the nation perform crucial roles in the society and as well it is influence in its editorial policy. Lazar field and Kendal (2002,p.32), insist that mass is truly applicable to the medium of...
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The mass media comprises the means by which a society disseminates and receives information. The traditional instruments of the mass media to the modern man are the newspapers, magazines, radio and television. The Journalist is...
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The Internet continues to evolve into a major news source. The internet is the worldwide system of interconnected computers which make use of telecommunication resources. It is defined by Ani (2010) as...
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Home video is one of the strongest media outlets and because it is widespread, it could influence the culture of the any society, especially among the younger generation. The home video business distributes films, telemovies and...
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For any organization to function very effectively is it big or small, the welfare of the staff of that organization must first be taken into consideration. This is because a staff who is not taken good care of, for instance, whose sa...
The political entity called Nigeria has continued since independence under one form to the other. Especially with military rulers who have had to be rule throu...
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With the shrinking of the world into a global village through the increasing sophistication of communication technologies, the local media in a nation is brought under fierce competition for local audience by the global media. What broadcasting d...
INTRODUCTION
This paper evaluates Nigerian press reportage of political campaign during the 2011 presidential election. The major focus of the paper is to assess the role of the Nigerian press in the struggle for political position.
Argu...
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The advent of the internet in the 1990s led to major developments in the world of communication. Today the Internet has taken a firm place in people's lives. It is difficult to imagine a young man who at least once a day did...
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As to the review of information technology, it combines the collection, gathering, recording, storing, processing and communication or dissemination of information from one source to another where the information is being passed....
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The broadcast media have been considered an important public domain in the use, promotion and maintenance of language in line with the sociolinguistic nature and dictates of their host communities (Silentman, 1995; Davi...
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Addiction to the usage of social network has greatly increased in contemporary times. The risk of its effects on the academic performance of the so many students that are involved in it is disturbing. In views of Karpinski...
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In recent years, educational researchers have emphasized the critical role of the principal in creating an effective school environment which involves the development of a strong school culture that prescribes specific goals, rol...
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Journalism is fundamental in ensuring purposeful and peaceful co-existence in the society. They are indispensable to the success of every human endeavour. Through their agenda – setting role, the journalism practice s...
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
This study has established that secondary school students in rural areas of Cross River state have low level of knowledge on family planning and its methods. Attitude towards family planning is poor with cultural and religious misconceptions...
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Nigeria Television Authority Enugu was established in the year 1960 by the Premier of an Eastern region of Nigeria Dr. Michael Okpara. It was the oldest television station in Nigeria. It was received in the thirteen states of the fe...
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The Internet continues to evolve into a major news source. The internet is the worldwide system of interconnected computers which make use of telecommunication resources. It is defined by Ani (2010) as...
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Communication is the most general form of interpersonal interaction required for decision-making and interpersonal influence in organizations.To this end, the second half of 20th century brought a tradition of communication resea...
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
In Nigeria, mass media efforts have been utilized to educate people, particularly pregnant women, about the benefits of using ITNs on a daily basis. In many developing countries, print and electronic media have been widely employed in behavioral c...
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Other definitions place emphasis on the importance of signs and symbols, as well as the transmission of cultural information, ideas, attitudes, or emotions from one person or a group to another. This branch of mass media involves in some ways the...
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Mass media is a channel, medium, utility, device, or instrument used in the mass communication process. The mass media also includes, printed media, electronic media and Cyber media. Printed media such as newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, b...
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Mass media has a great impact in modeling of public opinion by the wide range of methods to change people’s view about a particular issue. This is why Winston Churchill remarked that "no such thing as public opinion but published opinio...
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Child labour and trafficking are essentially understood as encompassing monetary or non monetary activities which are mentally physically, morally and socially hazardous for children below 15 years of age (UNICEF, 2005). Ch...
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The word Teenage refers to both male and female between the ages thirteen and nineteen (13-19years). Under the American social norm, such teenagers are not regarded as matured. Although physiologically, they look like adults and...
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The role of television as a mass medium in the democratization process is understood in the context of the public sphere, which is defined by Habermas stated in 2012 as "organs of information and political debates such...
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For example, in Enugu State, there is no strategy that is exclusively directed towards HIV and AIDS prevention among secondary school students. Whatever awareness or skill they have, they acquired through televisions and radios for those who have access to them. W...
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The increased interest in the role of business in society today has been prompted by increased attention to the awareness of environmental and ethical and moral issues. It means our society has become increasingly concerned that...
Abstract
World over, political aspirants adopt the use of diverse campaign strategies such as political advertising in order to sensitize the electorates to vote in their favor. These advertisements often present an exaggeration of what the society stan...
ABSTRACT
This study examined the use of social media and mass media in the campaign against the spread of corona virus disease. The study adopted the survey research method with questionnaire as an instrument for gathering data. The population of the st...
ABSTRACT
Mass media refers to those media that are designed to be consumed by large audiences through the agencies of technology. These technologies include the Internet, television, newspapers, film and radio, which are used for mass communication. Mas...
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In this study, our focus was to examine the role of mass media in children socialization using selected primary schools in Enugu State as case study.
The study adopted the survey research design and randomly enrolled participants in...
ABSTRACT
This study probes the effects which mass media has on the cultural values and tradition of the Yoruba people. It specifically tackles the effects of mass media on the culture and traditions of Erin Osun community. The research posits that the c...
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It is well known that corruption has a negative influence on countries all around the world. Corruption is likely the most significant impediment preventing the world's developing or least developed countries' (LDCs) soci...
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Police Brutality or extreme utilization of power backed up by law is a social infringement involving the use of force by police officers against subjects of a country or specific regional area (Amnesty International, 2014). Utili...
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In today’s world of modern governance throughout the world, the issue of good governance has assumed the front burner as an essential necessity for social, economic and political advancements (World Bank, 1989, Nanda, 2006;...
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In fact many researches have been conducted in many countries, especially in Nigeria to verify the causes and effects of teenage pregnancy. The reason suggested for this is the easiness of teenagers to fall into the pit of premar...
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Development in all its ramifications is a pr...
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It is common knowledge that the most effective way to promote awareness is through the media, where useful information may be conveyed to thousands of people in a certain area from a reliable source. In other words, newspapers, r...
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Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to broad evidence. Though there are many variations of journalism, the idea is to inform the intended evidence about topics ranging from government and bu...