This article discusses the concept of development communication and the role which communication can play in the development process. Using the Ugandan example, it shows how the broadcast media have …

Law and the mass media in Kenya

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

This article describes and analyses the law affecting the mass media in Kenya. It poses and attempts to answer the questions: (a) who should define the role of the press? …

The image of women and the role of the media in a new political culture in Nigeria

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

This article surveys how the mass media in Nigeria portray women and treat issues affecting them. It begins by looking at the number and status of women in Nigerian media …

Relationship between gender and self-perceived communicator style in the Nigerian cultural context

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

This study assesses if gender has any influence on how Nigerian males and females perceive their communication styles. Using Norton's (1978) instrument of communicator style to collect the data, it …

Social mobilisation

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

The thesis of this paper is that meaningful and lasting development can only be based on the mobilisation of our people for effective transformation of the developmental process. However, the …

The role of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam in mobilising the masses

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

Tanzanians are turning inward now after dismantling most of the barriers to development colonial mentality, colonial regimes in the neighbourhood, illiteracy and poor health. The rallying cry now is increased …

Some perspectives on the mass media under a military government

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

This descriptive paper throws the searchlight on the mass media under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from certain theoretical perspectives. After giving a brief background to the mass media …

Gatekeeping in the Nigerian press

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

This baseline study of gatekeeping in the Nigerian press follows the tradition of White (1950) and Swider (1967) and reveals that as a concept, gatekeeping holds great promise in African …

Sources of political information in a rural Nigerian community

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

In any election year, the myriad of political communication messages that individual voters are daily exposed to provides a potentially bewildering competitive climate for opinion formation, attitude change and/or behaviour …

On mass communication and mass incommunication in Nigeria

MSU: Michigan State University · 1990

Despite the prevalence of mass media institutions and 'paraphernalia' in Nigeria, the Nigerian masses still remain marginalized and denied their right to communicate through the conventional mass media. This is …