NEWSPAPER AND TELEVISION AS AN AGENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
(A CASE STUDY OF ADABA COMMUNITY)
By
OGBODO VIOLET. OBIOMA AND GROUP MEMBERS
Presented To
Department of
Mass Communication
ABSTRACT
This work is designed to study how dwellers use Newspaper and Television messages to effect social change.
It is pertinent to note that Newspapers, though rarely find their way into Adaba Community, only those who work in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Headquarter and those who are opportune to visit Urban areas, such as Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka town, but a few, some times come home with few copies of these Newspapers on an irregular basis. Moreover, even the readership of these Newspapers is strongly affected by the high illiterate rate of the in of this Community.
Television sets, on the other hand, are owned only by wealthy individuals that can afford both television sets and the Electric generating plants which are required to operate the sets, or the chargeable motor batteries which are sometimes needed in place of generating plants. Therefore, to this community, television ownership is not confined to the literate class as many illiterate but well-to-do villagers own television as luxury goods capable of providing relaxation from the stresses of daily life. In this mass media organization and management lecture, Okenwa maintains that:
Most Yoruba people purchase television sets not just for luxury of it, but for the sake of Babasala’s drama which provides an excellent comic relief to the Yoruba man after his activities during this study shows the pattern of interaction between Newspaper and Television massages as agent of social development of Adaba Community.
Previous researchers in this field confirmed themselves to the study of the relationship between Urban and Rural areas in terms of media exposure. But this study distinguishes itself by studying a completely rural community such as Adaba Community.
Writers in this field, such as Everett Roger emphasize: that interpersonal communication channels are inadequate for reaching the huge peasant audiences of the less developed countries even when these channels are provided at the village level by government change agents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER PAGE:………………………………………………I
TITLE PAGE:……………………………………………… II
DEDICATION:………………………………………………III
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:…………………………………………IV
ABSTRACT:……………………………………………………V
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY1.2 INTRODUCTION:……………………………………… - 1
1.3 IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY:………………………………8
1.4 DISTINGUISHING FEATURES:………………………………10
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 REVIEW OF LITERATURE2.1 REVIEW OF LITERATURE:…………………………………12
2.2 SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW:……………………21
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM………………………………………………24
3.1 RESEARCH PROBLEM…………………………………………………….24
CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF VARIABLES 25
3.2 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS AND NULL HYPOS THESES………27
3.4 ASSUMPTIONS……………………………………………………………….28
3.5 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY……………………………………………29
CHAPTER FOUR
METHODOLOGY4.0 RESEARCH METHOD………………………………………………30
4.1 RESEARCH DESIGN………………………………………………..31
4.2 ANALYSIS OF DATA………………………………………………32
4.3 EXPECTED RESULTS………………………………………………32
CHAPTER FIVE5.0 RESULTS5.1 RESULTS…………………………………………………..34
5.2 DISCUSSION………………………………………………50
CHAPTER SIX6.0 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY6.1 Summary 63
6.2 Recommendations for further study 65
REFERENCES 68
APPENDIX 70
SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE A-C 71
BIBLIOGRAPHY 79