Abstract The emergence of social media platforms has contributed to making the world a global village. Social media as a means of communication has raised and thrown up legal issues relating to its administration and use generally. The issues consist of information management, privacy, liability of users and possible litigation there on. Further, such post could raise issues like libel, defamation and other several legal violations which may be intended or not necessarily deliberate. Attempts...
ABSTRACT Media laws are not new to the Nigerian press. What is new is the ways in which various governments and individuals try to hide under some of these laws to cripple the job of the Nigerian journalists. This is the main thrust behind this research which is centered on finding the effects of press laws on journalistic practice in Nigeria with a view to unraveling those laws that tends to reduce the power of journalists with a study on three newspapers in PortHarcourt in the South-South R...
Abstract This thesis considers the role of community media in contemporary media policy developments of Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is broadly located within the discourse on ‘shapers’ of media policy developments. The empirical materials draw upon various case studies of media regulation and community press and broadcasting media campaigns in South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. The case studies were conducted using mixed methods approach in a qualitative way. The methodologica...
ABSTRACT This exploratory study investigated the role of social media in radio journalism at Accra-based radio stations. It was inspired by the steady evolution of radio in Ghana‘s democratic space and the insurgence of social media through increasing internet connectivity in Accra. The study combined both qualitative and quantitative methods. From a sampling frame of 33 radio stations, the study used a healthy combination of random sampling methods; purposive sampling and snowballing for i...
The emergence of social media has led to the emergence of new generation of content creators and distributors. Some of these creators have also delved into the business of news production and distribution online. Online news reports come with a lot of imperfections because of the flexible or outright lack of professional gatekeeping. This has led to the emergence of fake news. Based on the Uses and Gratification theory, this study evaluates the accuracy of online news reports, audience reliab...
ABSTRACT Studies on the social management of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria have focused on how awareness about HIV and AIDS has been created through electronic media campaigns and organised interpersonal communication. These studies have not investigated context constrained language use in the advertisements on the disease despite the wide coverage and potential effectiveness of these advertisements in the public sensitisation about HIV and AIDS. This study, therefore, investigated the pragmatic f...
Abstract The study seeks to assess the social media perception and usage among students of Nigerian universities. Three research questions guided the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study is 1816. The sample size of the study was drawn using Wimmer and Dominic to get 451. 451 copies of questionnaire were distributed and 317 copies of the questionnaire were returned. Data was gotten from both the primary source and secondary source. The primary s...
Abstract The study seeks to assess the social media perception and usage among students of Nigerian universities. Three research questions guided the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study is 1816. The sample size of the study was drawn using Wimmer and Dominic to get 451. 451 copies of the questionnaire were distributed and 317 copies of the questionnaire were returned. Data was gotten from both the primary source and secondary source. The p...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between the level of social media networking use and well-being of marital relationships, the relationship between stress and anxiety associated with social media networking use and well-being of marital relationship, and the role of psychotherapy, sociability and social skill development in promoting responsible social media use among couples. The study was grounded on Family Systems Theory and Rational Choice Theory. The study utilized Correlat...
The work looked at how social media predispose adolescents to different social vices and maladaptive behaviours. The study rose as a result of the widespread of social media and how adolescents use this platform. There has also been a sudden increase in juvenile delinquency, especially in the last few decades that social media became a house hold name. Hence, this study investigated how social media influence or contribute to juvenile delinquency. This is just a proposal. Interested perso...
This study was carried out to investigate the adoption of social networks media for reference services in academic libraries. Thus, the study discovered among others, the meaning of social networking media and the types of social networking media tools that can be applied in the reference section by the reference librarian for the provision of reference services in academic libraries. To achieve the objectives of this study, four (4) research questi...
ABSTRACT This study examined how social media is used as a tool for social activism by the Occupy Flagstaff House Movement. Underpinned by the theories of technological determinism and the social network theory, the researcher interviewed three members of the leadership of Occupy Flagstaff House Movement and conducted a quantitative content analysis of the messages sent out by the movement on the social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter. The study established that the primary reasons wh...
Abstract The main aim of the research is to examine the dynamics of using social media as a source for news in mainstream media. The research will also seek to highlight the potential threat to journalists‟ ethics such as objectivity, bias and fairness as a result of sourcing out information from various social media platforms such as Facebook pages, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp. The use of social media as a source for news by mainstream media newspapers especially those operating from t...
The study, examine public perception of social media contribution in the fight against corruption, the Idealistic theory, was used in this research study, as different philosophies of scholars review ,is noted to make this research concrete , observed to examine , the public perception ,in Corruption, as news information is being neglected . the magic bullet theory, creates a strong effect in the media influence .The social media, has played an effective role ,in disseminating and eva...
ABSTRACT The study, examine public perception of social media contribution in the fight against corruption, the Idealistic theory, was used in this research study, as different philosophies of scholars review ,is noted to make this research concrete , observed to examine , the public perception ,in Corruption, as news information is being neglected . the magic bullet theory, creates a strong effect in the media influence .The social media, has played an effective role ,in disseminati...