Communication can simply be defined as the transmission of information with the purpose of influencing the receiver. Although communication has pervasive application to all phases of managership. Communication is any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person’s needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, it may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take lingu...
INTRODUCTION Communication could be described as a process of passing information and understanding to one or more persons. It is a means by which behaviour is modified, change is affected, and information is made productive in order to achieve objectives and goals of organizations. In an business, there are different units performing various functions. Thus, communication serves as a linking process by which parts of a system are tied together. Communication provides the links, which bind an...
Abstract Numerous and diverse approaches for assessing and measuring library effectiveness are discussed. Most of these approaches are shown to adopt very limited and narrow perspectives and depend upon limited performance criteria. This paper suggests a way to evaluate library effectiveness. Introduction To “evaluate” is to ascertain the value of something. The object of evaluation is improvement through the process of identification and removal of shortcomings. The main purpose of this...
ABSTRACT As concepts, communication and information are very closely related, but they also designate more than their usual conceptual meaning when they are called upon in social theories as well as in philosophical theories about the reality and the truth of social life; information and communication are then designating physical events or event like objects of the observable reality, which will be hereafter described as a procedural ontologization of information. Why do they have this role...
ABSTRACTThe impact of Christianity on rural areas with direct reference to Ogoni traditional religion in every way would be better appreciated when one takes the mind back to the conflicting experienceencountered by the earlymissionaries and the colonial masters, who had a lot to do to convince their victims to drop their basic traditional worshipping for Christianity.This paper shall dwell on the positive and negative impact of Christianity on the Ogoni traditional worship with respect to ru...
INTRODUCTION Local government administration is one of the efforts of the federal government of Nigeria to bring government influence to the rural dwellers. Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State is one of the Seven Hundred and Seventy Four (774) Local Government Areas in Nigeria. The Headquarters of the local government is situated at city of Udi on the A232 highway and one of the seventeen (17) local governments in Enugu state in southern Nigeria created in 1991. Each has the Awhum wa...
This annotated bibliography, of major published works on mass communication in Africa (mainly, the Anglophone sub-Saharan region), is the third of such publications that have been undertaken by the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) to promote in the continent the development and wide-spread use of textbooks and other teaching and research materials that are relevant to local conditions and anchored on the experiences of Africa's rich variety of socio-cultural, economic and po...
A GOOD STORY. Thinking of things ,people or place that that interest you is a great way to come-up with story ideas. for example, i love having burn fire. It interests me. i could choose to write about a burn fire experience during my last summer camp. How do we do this? first, you need a pencil, a paper , write down the exciting ideas that pop into your mind, try to picture something really creative. this step will guide you to have a good plan for your story. A good story comes from ...
ABSTRACT One of the challenges that have persisted in African philosophy through the centuries is the question, if there is an African philosophy at all. Thus, when one uses the term African, one is asked to contextualize the term: Does it (the term African) refer to the content of the philosophy or does it qualify the identity of the philosophers themselves? Whether resting with the former, or the latter, or making a synthesis of both perspectives, our Western counterparts in the field of ph...
Introduction In the paper “Aims of A New Epoch,” Charles Taylor focuses on Hegel’s revolutionary thoughts, a kind of philosophical movement that seemed necessary to the pressing needs of his time. This paper focuses on the paradigm shift around the 17th century from seeing the universe as ordered and predictable by interpretation, to that which has a causal set of contingent correlations, discoverable empirically. At the time Hegel was born (1770), German thought was and literature was ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Dedication ii Acknowledge iii Table of Contentsiv -Answers1 References TO DISCUSS IN DETAIL THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WRITING FOR PRINT AND NEW WRITING FOR BROADCASTINGANSWERFirstly, print journalism is a division in the Mass Communication that gathered news, prepared them and disseminate for public readership Via (books) newspapers, magazine etc. In Nigeria, Rev. Henry Townsend published the first newspaper Iwe Irolin in Abeokuta in 1849. A newspaper is a ...
INTRODUCTION We are all conversant with the media system, its application in almost all areas of human endeavor, though with little or no effort on finding out what is the effect of the media on our moral/cultural values. The media is one of the most important instrument of shaping, educating and generally developing the society but at the same time has a serious effects on our societal values . our value system has begin to degenerate because of what people see and believe through accessing...
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of western films on teenagers as it affects the promotion of cultural heritage in African society. Much after the independence across African continent, one of the major preoccupations African leaders had to contend with is the restoration of African cultures in their pristine forms which were arguably polluted or collapsed by the colonial masters during their reign. No doubt, teenagers and youth generally, are vital segment of the society who could be ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgment Chapter One Organigram of my community (OKO) Chapter two Hierarchy of power in Oko Autonomous Community Chapter three Brief history of my community Chapter four Assessment of festivals and dramas as the medium of rural development BRIEF HISTORY OF MY COMMUNITY OKO. The name of my community is Oko in Orumba North Local Government Area, Anambra State. Oko has five villages namely:- Ezioko village Oko Eziabo village Oko Okeani village...