ABSTRACT Academic performance is an important element to the lives of students in schools and their progression to the career world. Several factors indicate a student’s academic success. While some may not graduate top of their class, they may hold leadership positions in several student groups or score high on extracurricular activities. The title of this paper is “Social Networking and Academic Performance of University Students in Kenya: A Case Study of Kenyatta University, Kericho ...
ABSTRACT The study was all about the relationship between the usage of media of communication and employee job satisfaction. This research was conducted in Arusha, Singida, and Babati urban water authorities. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between usage of print media and employee job satisfaction, to assess the relationship between the usage of non-print media and employee job satisfaction and to examine the relationship between usage of modern media...
ABSTRACT Corporate communication is an essential tool for organisational management and employed by universities to engage both the internal and external publics. The emergence of the new media has reshaped communication channels and modified strategies for information gathering, processing, dissemination and utilisation. This has however created tension between stakeholders in universities. Therefore, this study sought to identify the dominant organisational structure of corporate communica...
ABSTRACT The role of the media in conflicts has been a concern across the world. Its effect has intensified enormously and scholars are yet to concur on the extent of the media effect on conflicts and peace-building. The general objective of the study was to assess the media influence on the conduct of electioneering process in Kenya with reference to Kisumu County. The specific objectives of the study were to: investigate the type of influence of the media during electioneering process in Ke...
vii ABSTRACT Since the 2007/008 Post-Election Violence (PEV),media coverage on political conflict has remained a complex yet intriguing issue to unbridle more especially on the Kenyan peace-building landscape .By and large, it has proved to be an elusive concept, globally, continentally, regionally, transnationally and locally. Many scholars have written on the effects media has on conflict situations in Africa particularly on how media fuels conflict. However, the literature on conflict and ...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwean mass media has profoundly been polarised by two significant camps, progovernment and anti-government mass media establishments. Public opinion has primarily been centered on the binary ideological inclinations of these two camps. The heavily censored political environment in Zimbabwe since the imposition of the Public Order and Security Act 11 17(POSA) resulted in political interaction and expression of personal dispositions being subverted thereby resulting in „silence...
Abstract The loud bangs emitted by Oscar Pistorius’ gun in his apartment on the night of 13 February 2014, set ablaze a social media adoption by nu merous South Africans. This unfortunate incident in which Reeva Steenkamp was murdered set a research in motion. Thousands of South Africans and those beyond flocked on Facebook and Twitter to monitor the progress of the hand of justice, as well as to disc uss their thoughts on what they thought would be a just outcome. It was a repetition of th...
ABSTRACT The research examines role played by media during election periods. It has found out that between the two political parties ZANU PF & MDC-T both received fair coverage though from different sources. Party ZANU PF had its politics covered by the Herald and other state funded media outlets like ZBC. Thus however ZANU PF proved to have more coverage since it had privatized the media at the cost of improved independent/ private media which was being suppressed during this time. The resea...
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 ...
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were co...
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were co...
ABSTRACT Caesarian Section is chosen as a birth method particularly when difficulties arise during delivery. Despite this, women are not willing to take up the caesarian section as a birth method because they are afraid of what their significant others will say about them. However, literature on how women construct the Caesarian section in Ghana is scanty. This study, therefore, focused on understanding the meaning given to caesarian section among women after surgical intervention in the Tam...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to compare the coverage received by Ghana’s male and female ministers in the Daily Graphic and Daily Guide newspapers and to determine what role gender played in the selection, framing and placement of these news stories. In order to achieve the aims of the study, a mixed methods approach was employed. Quantitative content analysis was used to examine and compare the coverage received by male and female ministers in the newspapers, in terms of quality...
ABSTRACT Over the last two decade, there has been a remarkable rise in the use of the mass media by all religious groups in Ghana. This is large, due to the recent liberalization of the Ghanaian media. Focusing on these developments, this study has examined the usage of the media by traditional priests and priestesses in Ghana. The study examines the influence that the appropriation of modern media technologies has brought on the current face of the indigenous religion in Ghana. The most po...
ABSTRACT This study examined social entrepreneurship activities, social entrepreneurship environmental factors and the nexus of social entrepreneurship environment and social entrepreneurship activities. Five in-depth qualitative case studies provided insights on the individual perspectives on the influencing environmental factors of social entrepreneurship. The environmental factors which influence social entrepreneurship activities in Ghana are: corruption and bureaucracy, regulatory frame...