Proceedings of 2nd Library and Information Sensitisation Forum Nigeria (LISFN) International Conference 2023
Abstract: The study considers the social media as a new public sphere where all the keepers of the society as a realm, are kept under some sort of watch as well, in terms of public scrutiny of their actions and inactions. Social media have offered internet users across the globe various discursive spaces with measurable degree of economic and sociopolitical impact. The objective of the study is to explore the social media as a new public sphere and its potential as the fifth estate of th...
PERCEPTION OF PHARMACISTS ON ADHERENCE TO VIRAL MESSAGE ON THE USE OF HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA.
Abstract One of the characteristics of communication is that it is irreversible. Once messages are sent, it cannot be taken back. In the age of constantly evolving sophisticated information technologies, information or messages go viral beyond ones intention and estimation. The mutating coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has become a global phenomenon with its attendants effects on global economic and sociopolitical life of most nations. The pandemic has pushed the health sector to the ed...
Awareness and Access to Educational Broadcasting Programmes among Secondary school students in Egbeda Community, Lagos
ABSTRACT Educational broadcasting policy has been successfully used for diffusing education among audience in so many countries across the world. It is a policy that has been adjudged effective in bridging the gap between the classroom and home, and an effective alternative for the deprived and unreached. Just like many other nations, Nigeria in the past had an effective educational broadcasting policy that facilitated the production and transmission of educational programmes to schools and ...