ABSTRACT The researcher was interested in investigating on the print media and changing of voting behavior of electorates in Uganda. The research was guided by objectives which were intended to; examine the role of print media coverage on shaping the voting behaviors of electorates in Uganda, find out the challenges encountered by print media coverage in shaping the voting behaviors of electorates in Uganda and establish the strategies devised to overcome the challenges faced in shaping the v...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATION iiAPPROVAL iiiDEDICATiON ivACKNOWLEDGEMENT vLIST OF ACRONYMS viLIST OF TABLES xLIST OF FIGURES xiABSTRACT xiCHAPTER ONE 1INTRODUCTION 11.0 Introduction1.1 Background of the study 11.2 Statement of the problem 41.3 Purpose oCthe study 61.4 Study objectives 61.5 Research Questions 61.6 Scope o C the Study 61.7 Significance of the Study 7CHAPTER TWO 9LITERATURE REVIEW 92.0 Introduction 92.2 Role of media in fighting child labor 122.3 Challenges faced by media in figh...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to critically appraise the role of the media in Kenya in the implementation of the new constitution. It attempts to critically analyze how and why the media is important in the process. Ti also shows that there is a direct relationship between press freedom, the roles of the media, and the nature of the govemment ion power. Relations between the media and the implementation of the new constitution cannot be ignored. However, this paper seeks to engage with the m...
This research was conducted in the University forDevelopment Studies, WA campus to examine the effects of Social Media on students' academic performance taking into focus WhatsApp and Facebook. It has been observed that students devote more attention and time to social media than they do for their studies and they cannot pass their examinations well if they do not learn (Oshrive, 2015). The use of social media among students has reached high levels and has affected their study time, poor...
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of Twitter images to communicate pain, anger, grief, hope, determination and other sentiments resulting from loss. By focusing on images shared on the Twitter handle #BringBackOurGirls started as a social media campaign against the kidnapping of school-going Nigerian girls by a militant group, Boko Horam, the research analyses how meanings are constructed through several codes. Drawing insights from semiotic concepts and theorizations about the role of soc...
ABSTRACT The study was set to assess the influence of media ownership on media content, a case study of Vision media group and Monitor publications in Uganda, Media ownership has remained an intriguing factor in understanding the news production process. Various studies have proven that ownership influence do affect how journalists cover stories. The said influence takes various forms including direct censorship and coercion of editorial staff. This study critically examines how media owners...
ABSTRACT This article seeks to examine the use patterns of Facebook by Midlands State University (MSU) students as a communication tool from 2012 to 2013. It focuses on MSU students in Zimbabwe focusing on how social media networks such as Facebook can be used by university students to communicate academic, social and political issues in their day to day lives. Again, this will reflect on the efficiency and cultural impact that Facebook has in the academic world, particularly in Zimbabwe. The...
ABSTRACT Some journalists in Ghana expect their sources to pay or reward them for covering a programme especially when they are invited by the organiser(s) of the programme. Similarly, PR practitioners are cited as being among the top three sources that perpetuate brown envelope journalism (Soli) in their dealings with journalists. The practice, thus, appears to have become a norm among event organisers (often PR practitioners) and journalists (reporters) without recourse to the ethical impli...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of Public Relations strategies employed by tax administrations on the level of tax compliance in SME‘s in Zimbabwe. The study sought to determine the extent to which the PR activities implemented in ZIMRA as the tax administration in Zimbabwe are assisting in improving the levels of tax compliance, the main areas of the study were establishing tax compliance levels, establishing how increasing media presence could also affect tax compliance and how ta...
Abstract The broad a1111 of this research was to establish the inOucncc or electronic media on secondary school students discipline in Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara district, Uganda. The focus was to establish the types and magnitude of indiscipline cases among secondary school students, to describe the commonly accessed electronic media by secondary school students and to establish the relationship between use or electronic media and secondary school students' discipline. This study was guid...
ABSTRACT Introduction: The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic of 2014, which occurred in West Africa, is reported to be the longest and most severe outbreak of Ebola since the discovery of the disease in 1976. The outbreak was first reported in Guinea but, by the time the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the epidemic over, the disease had affected five other countries on the African continent-Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Mali. It was also reported in the United States o...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION BY STUDENT ................................................................................................ ii DECLARATION BY SUPERVISOR ........................................................................................ iii DEDICATION.............................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................
ABSTRACT Nothing influences a broadcasting media like the Quality of programs presented and how audiences respond and being influenced. Due to the fact that, this research aims at examining the roles of FM radio towards economic developmental issues in all aspects of life. The study focuses in among of the major broadcasting media in Tanzania that is the East African Radio. The research problem that instigate this research was that of many media companies mostly FM radios not taking into acc...
This dissertation interrogates the effectiveness of voluntary and non-statutory (nongovernmental) media councils in promoting self-regulation of mass media in the context of Africa’s democratization. With the reintroduction of multiparty democracy in Africa in the early 1990s, external initiators and sponsors of Africa’s democratization – donor countries, multilateral aid organizations1 , as well as internal media stakeholders and activists, campaigned persistently for a free press on t...
ABSTRACT The study covers the results of the findings about the impact of the media on the Kenyan referendum, which was carried out on 21 st November 2005. It covers the period ranging from 2004 to 2005. The research findings were guided by a set of research objectives and questions, both of which were set to assess the role the media played during the process, the problems they faced and other key players and their contribution to the process. The study conducted was based on a sample ...