ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate how the Ghanaian print media frame or portrays female football stories in Ghana. The study was based on the Agenda Setting, Framing and Feminist theories. The study used qualitative method for the data collection and analysis. Two sports newspapers, the Graphic Sports and the Finder Sports, were selected and content analysed for the study. The study showed that the Ghanaian print media often portrayed female footballers and coaches as mentally weak ...
ABSTRACT The media as one of the specific learning condition is believed to be a potential contributor to the growth of antisocial attitudes and behavior in students and teenagers. While social scientists work on determining the major causation of violence, such as social environments, cultural factors, family instruction, and group membership parents, teachers, politicians and school administrators continue to blame the media for increased cultural alienation and attitudinal change among ad...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVAL iiDEDICATION iiiACKNOWLEDGMENTS ivTABLE OF CONTENTS vLIST OF ABREVIATION ixLIST OFTABLES xLIST OF FIGURES xiABSTRACT XiiCHAPTER ONE 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Background of the study 11.2 Statement of the problem 21.3 Objectives of the study 31.3.1 General objective 31.3.2 General objective of the study 31.3.3 Specific Objectives 31.4 Research Questions 41.5 Scope of the study 41.5.1 Content scope 41.5.2 Geographical. scope 41.5.3Time Scope 41.6 Significance o...
ABSTRACT In today’s world where the Internet has experienced tremendous growth, social networking sites have become highly significant in students' lives. The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of social media on students. To achieve this, the survey research method was used. Three research questions guided the study. Research findings showed that a great number of students had access to the internet. Survey technique, interview, and online observation were the research methods used...
Social capital has been proposed as a useful concept for the understanding of epidemics of Emerging Infectious Diseases, such as the epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) which occurred in West Africa in 2013 – 2015. This paper reviews some of the literature around the social capital concept, highlights the contested nature of that concept, and considers how the concept might be best applied to the study of the recent EVD crisis. It is argued that the emphasis in such studies must always be...
ABSTRACT The study was set to assess the factors influencing journalism in Uganda, a case study of selected journalism houses in Kampala central division, Kampala capital city authority. It was guided by three research objectives which included assessing the challenges faced by journalists in Kampala central division, effect of politics on journalism in Kampala central division and establish measures that can be adopted to improve the journalism industry in Kampala central division. The...
Abstract Obesity is an epidemic disease that threatens to inundate health care resources by increasing the incidence of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer. These effects of obesity result from two factors: the increased mass of adipose tissue and the increased secretion of pathogenetic products from enlarged fat cells. This concept of the pathogenesis of obesity as a disease allows an easy division of disadvantages of obesity into those produced by the mass of fat and those pro...
Abstract This study investigated the strategies employed by newspapers in Namibia to adopt new media technologies in their daily operations with a specific focus on New Era and The Namibian newspaper. The study also assessed how the print media has adopted new media technologies and examined how new media technologies have changed operations of news organisations. Using a qualitative method in the form of a case study, a non-probability sampling technique was used to purposively select the s...
ABSTRACT The study which was entitled “the effects of insurgency on the Socio-economic development of North Eastern Nigeria” focused on Wukari Local Government Area of Southern Taraba in Taraba State. It had as its objectives the need to identify the relationship between the standard of living and insurgency, to examine the effects of insurgency on the socio-economic development of North Eastern Nigeria and to identify measures of controlling insurgency. The research sought to answer the ...
ABSTRACT Human trafficking, a social menace that involves the recruitment, transfer and harbouring of persons is a fast growing organised crime globally with Nigeria stigmatized as a country of origin, transit and destination. Regardless of efforts towards stemming the tide of human trafficking, the menace still persists possibly due to low knowledge of and insensitivity to the consequences of the practice among Nigerians. Literatures have shown that Community-based participatory education p...
Abstract Soil and water resources are important for sustaining life on earth since they are the main components of sub catchment, however they are under threat of deterioration due to human activities (NEMA, 2011). Maziba sub catchment have high population pressure which have led to deforestation, over cultivation and wetland encroachment leading to soil erosion problems causing severe tension on soil and water resources while little attention is paid to their effects (NEMA, 2011). The purpos...
ABSTRACT The current financial service market is complex and offers consumers a vast array of products and services to meet their financial needs. The degree of choice requires that consumers be equipped with the financial knowledge and skills to evaluate the options available in the market. Studies by (Beal & Delpachitra, 2003, Nyamute & Monyoncho, 2008) on the effects of financial on personal financial decisions indicate contradicting results. This study was carried out to establish the eff...
ABSTRACT The current financial service market is complex and offers consumers a vast array of products and services to meet their financial needs. The degree of choice requires that consumers be equipped with the financial knowledge and skills to evaluate the options available in the market. Studies by (Beal & Delpachitra, 2003, Nyamute & Monyoncho, 2008) on the effects of financial on personal financial decisions indicate contradicting results. This study was carried out to establish the ef...
ABSTRACT Foreign media have been criticised for promoting Afro-pessimism and preference for negative frames in their representation of Africa. This is more pronounced especially in reporting of terrorism in the Sub-Saharan Africa. But are the African media less guilty of this preference for negativity? This paper aimed to answer this question by assessing how news media reported terrorism in the Sahel. To achieve this objective, some existing empirical studies that investigated media coverage...
Abstract The main objective of the study was to examine gender-specific and shared spatial variation in HIV testing and condom use in Namibia for targeted health promotion interventions. The study used data from the Namibia Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) carried out between 2006 and 2007. Bayesian hierarchical spatial mapping techniques were applied to generate specific and shared spatial patterns in HIV testing and condom use. Particularly, a number of Bayesian Structured Additive Regr...