line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"> 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The study covers women empowerment in Rajasthan and its Panchayat members of the state. As women constitute 50 percent of world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratios whereby female’s population has been treated as lower in Indian society. Rajasthan and Haryana are two states in India ma...
ABSTRACTThe researcher examines the effects of broadcast media campaign against ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria. Considering the long existing problems created by this menace, an audience based research of this nature is imperative. Survey research method was adopted in the research design to elicit reliable opinion from a known sample of the population based on Taro Yamane formula and the 2006 Census Report. The researcher framed five research questionnaires as research instrument to gathe...
Abstract:This paper is the first in a series. The series will examine the origins of this educational genre: academia involving adults as students. By examining its definitive history and philosophy, its early changes, evolution, and transitional periods, we can better understand the social incubus that has led to its current role. The area of investigation will be limited to parts of Europe and the United States, since this where, a century later, the emergence of Adult Ed...
INTRODUCTION:It was the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Genetal Babangida (Kurubo, 1993). It is therefore, no over statement to assert that women play very salient roles in national development. A timely question at this junction is what is national development? National development is usually defined principally in terms of economic growth (Redclift 1987). However, for the purpose of this discourse, national development (I,e the physical, politica...
INTRODUCTION Cooperation means working together. The principle of cooperation is as old as human Society. It is truly the basis of domestic and social life. Cooperative effort is ultimately the group instinct in man, which enables him to live together and help each other in times of stress and strain. Unconsciously, the principle has always penetrated the life of human race. The history of modern civilization is in fact, the history of cooperation, for without it social and economic prog...
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:12.55pt;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif""="">Abstract margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:99%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;punctuation-wrap: simple;text-autospace:none">In the recent years, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in popularity of online ...
AbstractThe Talking Drum and Shekere are an important instrument of communication in Traditional African society, including Nigeria. They serve as the voice of the whole community and communicate the aggregate of people’s desires not only in music but also in the whole sense of communication. The Talking Drum is fashioned to enhance grassroots mobilisation for developmental needs of the society, while the Shekere is designed to give rhythm to music and complement the output of other indigen...
ABSTRACTThis study covers the ınfluence of mass medıa on chıldren mental development, specifically the use of media and technology, children’s educational TV, and some electronical gadgets ownership. Since some decades the media’s presence in children is completly omnipresent. The media is used by children as an agent of socialisation on their knowledge. Children’s news media use social intructions acquaintances function as primary sources of causal effects for each other. Thus the m...
ABSTRACTDigitization is the current trend in broadcasting, both in Nigeria and the world over. The International Telecommunication Union, ITU, set 2015 for the entire broadcasting stations in the world to go digital. Nigeria set 2012 for broadcast stations in the country to be digitized. This work aimed at x-raying the challenges of switching from analogue to digital technology. In the process, the benefits of digitization were outlined and afterwards weighed against the challenges of actuali...
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the impact or possibly the role of radio and interpersonal communication in combating malaria in Nigeria. Malaria no doubt is a global problem with outstanding impact in Africa. The situation calls for concern and all possible means and strategies to ameliorate it. This paper therefore evaluates various health programs on radio and locally interpersonal dissemination of information in the process of waging war against malaria. Having explored various literatur...
ABSTRACTThis paper is focused on the brief history of print media, functions and the role of print media in a pluralistic society. We are able to know what a pluralistic society means and few countries we can find such feature. The final part of the paper is a conclusion and recommendation on why it's important to embrace a pluralistic society.INTRODUCTIONIt’s safe to say that the media, even life itself, would not be the same without the printed word. We read about our world through shared...
INTRODUCTIONA reporter is someone who investigates and reports news stories, either for a newspaper, website or broadcast news outlet.In journalism gift is referred to brown envelop (Payola, Freebies or bribe) which is defined as any valuable thing given or promise or any preferment, advantage or emolument, given or promised corruptly and against the law, as an inducement to any person acting in an official or public capacity to violate or forbear from his duty or to improperly influence his ...
INTRODUCTIONNew Journalism was a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.Articles in the New Journalism style tended not to be found in newspa...
PREFACEThe aim of public relations by a company often is to persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, and other stakeholders to maintain a certain point of view about it, its leadership, products, or of political decisions. Common activities include speaking at conferences, winning industry awards, working with the press, and employee communication.INTRODUCTION Public relation is the practice of managing the flow of information between an individual or an organization and the ...
ABSTRACT The article examined rural reporting in Nigeria and discovered that the only thing that constitute news for reporters in the country is only when a strange thing negative happens in the rural areas. For example, when there is ritual sacrifice, community clashes, rape, murder, etc.. The press hardly reports any good news about the rural communities in Nigeria. For example, when there is peace, harmony and self-efforts at rural development undertaken by the initiative of the rural...