ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the use of smartphones for learning among students at the University of Ghana. The main objectives pursued by this study were to investigate the adoption factors most relevant in student use of a smartphone as a learning tool, and also to investigate the role of educators (lecturers) in students’ resolution to learning via smartphones, as well as investigate factors that inhibit the use of smartphones as a learning tool. In accomplishing the obj...
ABSTRACT “What is news?” How do journalists as producers and purveyors of news determine what news is? This study sought answers to these age-old questions by examining newsroom practices in a commercial and public radio station in Ghana, which is, Joy FM and Uniiq FM respectively. Underpinned by the theories of gate keeping, ownership and news values, the study sought to interrogate the continuing relevance of traditional hegemonic views about news determinants. This study argued that t...
The research addressed the factors that could influence performance in Mathematics in public secondary schools in Embu West District. It aimed at determining the teacher, student and school-related factors that influence performance in mathematics in the district. The study adopted descriptive research design. The target population was mathematics teachers and Form Three students. Stratified sampling technique was used to select fourteen (14) public secondary schools: 4 for boys, 4 for g...
ABSTRACT Personal branding is gradually gaining attention in Ghana as various business executives, job seekers, celebrities and politicians apply the concept to their career and political lives. The knowledge of this concept is, however, heavily informed by self-help materials written and produced by non-academic writers and so-called experts on the topic. Empirical studies in this area of branding are lacking. This study uses interview data from people in the management teams of five famous...
Abstract In long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) networks, the carrier aggregation technique is incorporated for user equipment’s to simultaneously aggregate multiple component carriers (CCs) for achieving higher transmission rate. By combining five component carriers, each of 20 MHz, we can extend the bandwidth to 100 MHz and hence also can achieve high data rates of the order of 1Gbps. Many research works for LTE-A systems with carrier aggregation configuration is carried out in th...
ABSTRACT Public relation (PR) is a field dominated by females in both the industry and academic programs. Whilst scholars have expressed concerns on the implications of the gender imbalance on the industry, there is still inadequacy of literature on the reasons responsible for the occurrence especially the causes for the low number of male students in the PR training. Based on the reviewed literature for this research, most of the existing studies on gender in PR have greatly focused on ...
ABSTRACT The incorporation of digital technologies in for-profit newsrooms has led to disruptions in journalism hierarchies, business models, norms, and practices across the world. In African newsrooms, these disruptions have received a paucity of scholarly attention, and even those have tended towards policy and regulatory matters, or normative analyses founded on the Western liberal democratic model. This study interrogated the incorporation of the web in Kenyan journalistic practice by fol...
ABSTRACT The relationship between media coverage and corporate reputation is an essential phenomenon given its influence on perceptions among madiences. For instance, customers affiliate themselves with organizations with good reputations and regularly patronize their products and/or services. Past studies also indicate that the measure of organizational success is based on the attitudes and opinions of the public arising from media coverage of an organization's attributes. The purpose of thi...
There are efforts all over the world aimed at rebuilding societies torn apart by conflicts. Consequently, state and non-state actors play an active role in the peacebuilding efforts. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are emerging as new approaches to these peacebuilding efforts since they encourage participatory approach to peacebuilding. This study was designed to assess the role of ICTs in peacebuilding in Mt. Elgon region, following the aftermath of the 2006-2008 intra-ethnic c...
Gender participation is integral for sustainable management of natural resources. Kenya as a country has made great efforts to entrench gender equity policies in public management positions, but there have been challenges derailing operationalization of the gender policies. When water management enter public domain women are usually under-represented in decision-making positions. Despite the role played by women in water resource management and the efforts that the government has made in...
ABSTRACT Kenya prison rehabilitation programme is a programme that is used in reforming offenders in prison. The programme consists of designed training activities. Some of these activities include vocational trainings which are mandatory like carpentry, masonry while others are optional like sports, hobbies and motivational activities carried out to reform offenders. The offenders are taken through the activities by prison wardens and counsellors who supervise and record their progress irres...
ABSTRACT Going through peri menopause is stressful for any woman and it is often difficult to accept the changes caused by the imbalance in hormone levels in the body during this period. Perimenopause is a transitional phase that occurs before menopause and may have severe physical, emotional and cognitive symptoms. To address this problem, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has been used to control the symptoms, despite the fact that HRT is associated with breast and uterine cancers. Foods t...
Important political conversations in Kenya have taken place on the Twitter micro-blogging social media platform. In 2013, a ‘digital’ government led by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto embraced Twitter as a medium of communication. This study is an empirical assessment of the nature of Twitter’s use in government communication by all the members of Kenya’s National Executive (NE) who include: The President, his Deputy, Cabinet Secretaries and the A...
With increased internet use, organizations have shifted to new media to reach more audiences, to build mutual relationships with them, and to create a positive corporate image and reputation. Over the years, organizations have focused on analysing quantitative factors on online reviews to identify the degree of satisfied and dissatisfied customers, and have failed to understand the emotional aspects behind customer complaints. This study sought to examine online reviews by Facebook reviewers ...
With Facebook pages boasting 65% of social interaction with brands, banks indicate that they have moved 70% of customer relations and formal communication globally to social platforms such as Facebook, but customer response has been poor. Guided by the unified theory of acceptancy of use of technology, the study examined factors that influence the choice to use Facebook pages for online communication by bank customers. A mixed methods research approach was used while adopting a concurrent tri...