Abstract: The debate on the effect of social media usage on national security has been receiving scholarly attention owing to the indispensable and critical role that social networking sites play in today's modem society. However, the debate has been inconclusive given that the current academic scholarship seems to produce varied results. To this end, this paper attempted to bridge conceptual and empirical gap by delving into the links of social media on national security in Kenya. To achiev...
Abstract: The Study sought to explore the use of Social Media as an Early Warning System for Electoral Violence in Nairobi County during 2013 And 2017 General Elections. The Study responded to the following research questions; how does social media assist in the early detection of electoral violence? To what extent does social media facilitate coordination of early intervention efforts during electoral violence? How does social media aid in the provision of real time information to diffuse p...
Abstract: The advancement of social media goes hand in hand with some maladaptive behaviors. Social media for example has appeared among emerging adults who are in search of their uniqueness and determination in life. Social media and depression have been studied independently or in relation to other constructs such as loneliness, relationship, academic performance. Though many studies have been done separately on social media and depression, there appears to have no research about their ass...
Abstract: The social media is an essential tool for bringing people together globally. The social media helps shape perspectives both domestically and abroad. Social media diplomacy is an important tool in winning over local and international masses in this era of globalization, with its increased international dependence and competitiveness. Therefore, this study sought to determine the role of social media diplomacy in foreign policy decision-making in Kenya. The specific objectives of the...
Abstract: Data has turned to be an essential aspect of every individual, group, industry, financial system, business enterprise, commercial enterprise and society. In this era, where social networks yields inconceivable volumes of data for different purposes on daily bases, an improved approach to analysis of data is required to extract information that best matches user interest. One of the ways of achieving this is through data mining. Data mining could help any consumer or producer of inf...
Abstract: Social media has emerged as an effective source to investigate people’s opinions in the context of a variety of topics and situations, including crime. Crime solving can be a difficult task hence requiring human intelligence together with experience. Crime data is usually big and full of noise; hence manual analysis of this data is tedious and sometimes impossible to do. Data mining techniques such as Sentiment Analysis can help in analysing such big data. In Sentiment Analysis, ...
ABSTRACT Today, the ongoing debate surrounding social media and their national security threats has gained much scholarly attention given their far-reaching implications on the society in general and diplomacy in particular. Hence, the study primarily explored social media and national security as new frontiers of digital diplomacy in contemporary Ethiopia. This study followed a qualitative approach as study design on the basis of interpretative research paradigm. Since the topic is a littl...
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...
This study was conducted to determine the perception of teachers in the use of social media in teaching technical subjects in technical colleges in Enugu State. Two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design with the population of 44 respondents (33 male and 11 female teachers) sampled purposively from four technical colleges (T.C Ihe Achi, C.T.C Ahani Achi, GTC Enugu and C.C.T.C Ngwo) out of 29 technical c...
The study investigated Social Media Facilities and Students’ Academic Performance in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The sample comprised 100 students drawn randomly from four faculties in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Students’ addictiveness, students’ exposure and students’s social media usage formed the sub-variables of the study. An instrument titled “Social Media and Academic Performance of Students Questionnaire (SMAAPOSQ)” was used to gather responses ...
This study's goal is to examine how social media could affect mainstream journalism methods, with a particular focus on Amhara TV Newsroom Department. The study looked at how frequently journalists use social media in the course of their work and how social media is altering journalists gather information and report their daily news and what the prospects and difficulties are for journalists exercising in the social media era. For the study, mixed research methods were used, with a survey que...
ABSTRACT The essence of this work is to study social media and politics in Anambra State with the timeframe, 2014 to 2018. The concepts of social media and politics were discussed as well as the relationship between the two concepts. This work basically studied how social media influences the political processes and activities of Anambra State. The effective use of social media on politics and as well the challenges confronting social media deployment in politics. The study was quantitative ...
Abstract In Nigeria, the continuous voters’ registration was conducted in 2022 as part of preparation for the 2023 general elections. The Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise was meant for the registration of citizens who turned 18 years of age after the last registration exercise; or those who for one reason or another could not register in the previous exercises, or those whose voters cards are defaced, or those who want to change their voting addresses or those who want to cor...
ABSTRACT The social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have become very instrumental in enhancing the marketing capabilities of several bottling companies in Uganda. However, there is no academic documentation of whether these bottling companies such as Century Bottling Company Limited or Crown Bottling Company Limited (Pepsi) assesses marketing effectiveness of social media as their choicest tool in marketing. This study investigated whether using social media as a market...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of social media on children between seven to seventeen years in Kampala central division. The study was based on three research objectives which included establishing the contributions of social media to the social development of children between 7-17 years, examining the morale challenges that can be brought by social media in children development in Kampala city division and propose measures that can be adopted in improving the ...