ABSTRACT The Zimbabwean society as always been homophobic and homohysteric in nature since the late nineties with the largely publicised homophobic utterances by the former president Mugabe influencing media discourse in the post-independence era. However, studies examining queer sexual identities and digital media platforms in contemporary times are scarce. Guided by the queer theory, this study qualitatively examines how Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Facebook page and Unheard voices blog ar...
ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the extent to which civil society communicative platforms can be regarded as public sphere. This study seeks to establish how civil society communicative spaces, particularly public meetings, have been used to create a public sphere in the Habermasian sense. In other words, the study sought to establish the kind of public sphere that is consummated when citizens meet and engage on issues that affect them at public meetings. The research used Bulawayo Agend...
Abstract This dissertation seeks to explore, understand and critique the role played by the daily news and The Herald in their representation of factional and succession battles in ZANU PF. The period covered is prior and post the December 2014 ZANU PF elective congress. It is for the first time the factional battles in ZANU PF have been fought in the media. The study is qualitative in nature and it uses the Archival research method in the collection of data. Through content analysis and Crit...
ABSTRACT this study examined zimbabwean sdolescent belief on perceived predictive and protectve factor for substance
Virtual Theater provides a way for remote people to watch TV or movies together. It is an onlinevideo file synchronization tool, which enables users to enjoy the company of their friends in the "online cinema" setting. We think it will help those who like to watch television or movies series with friends or family, but their circumstances make it difficult for them to do so. The best social networking website that allows users to watch popular videos and chat live with friends online. With...
Table of contents Acknowledgements v Declaration vi Dedication vii List of Acronyms viii List of Tables ix List of Figures x Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Understanding Political Participation and Digital Media: A Global North Perspective 3 1.3 The Global South: Young People, Politics, and Digital Media 4 1.4 Why Study Young People’s Mobile Political Participation? 5 1.5 African Perspectives on Political Participation and Digital Citizenship 7 1.6 Research Questions 9 1.7 ...
Abstract This study investigated the preservation and accessibility of audio-visual records in television broadcasting companies in Tanzania. Specifically, it set out to determine how audio-visual records are preserved in television broadcasting companies; to establish how audio-visual records in television broadcasting companies in Tanzania are accessed and to examine challenges to effective preservation and accessing of audiovisual records in television broadcasting companies in Tanzania. T...
Abstract Studies in mobile telephony have shown their relevance for Africandevelopment but little is known about the usage patterns andconsumption motivations of different groups in Nigeria. The study examinedthe phenomenon among University staff and students in Ota, with a view to describing the consumption motivations and patterns of mobile phone use. Survey, focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews (IDIs)were used to generate data that explained the study problem. While the q...
Abstract Media studies has recently witnessed an upsurge in theoretical and empirical work that investigates the moral-ethical implications of the mediation of suffering. The research focus has largely been limited to representations of distant suffering by global media to audiences in the Global North. Contrary to the above, this work focuses on the mediation of suffering by media in the Global South. This study is underpinned by the understanding that suffering is also a proximal (local) ph...
ABSTRACT This thesis is about Community Audio Towers (CATs). CATs are small media platforms that use horn speakers hoisted on a long dry pole, an amplifier and a microphone to communicate daily village events. This study shows that individuals depend more on CATs than other available mainstream channels. The thesis interrogates the level of individual (i.e. villager) dependency on CATs in Ugandan rural and semi-urban communities alongside the other three available platforms in Uganda: radio,...
ABSTRACT It is the general view that homosexuality is an issue that both society and the media find controversial. In Uganda, press reports mostly echo the negative attitudes towards homosexuality as demonstrated by the studies about the 2009 anti-homosexuality bill. This thesis addressed itself to the framing of homosexuality in the two Ugandan newspapers of New Vision and Daily Monitor during the period 2007-2011. The purpose of the thesis was to investigate the frames that the two media h...
ABSTRACT The contribution of communication in the fight of HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies has become an important phenomenon in the health of adolescents and young people in Ghana. With a sample of 200 students from Labone High School, this study sought to investigate the x sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information seeking behaviour among students. Labone Senior High School is a mixed gender school where there is a proportional representation of students from a varied socio-economic ...
ABSTRACT This study is a critical analysis of Nigeria's Mass Communication Policy . It examines why, two decades after it was enunciated, not much has been achieved in terms of advancing the frontiers of mass communication in the country to meet the basic minimum standard of the United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to which Nigeria belongs. The study seeks to prove that there were some conceptual errors in the formulation of the policy, which, ab initio,...
ABSTRACT This study is primarily conducted out of the conviction that Nigeria's role in international information gathering and dissemination has left much to be desired. The propelling aim of this study, therefore, is to critically examine the various factors bedeviliing Nigeria's effective performance in the international information system. Secondly, the study attempts to map out appropriate implementable strategies that would enhance Nigeria's role in the international information system...
ABSTRACT Dependency is a term that refers to one of the strands of the imbalances in international news flow between the West and less developed countries (LDC). Western news agencies, it has been observed, have cornered the whole process of global newsgathering so totally that LDC media depend on them to get almost any news about the West and other LDC. Since these agencies carry mostly negative news about LDC, dependency, it has been alleged, promotes the dissemination of negative news abo...