This document summarizes a study that investigated how drive-time audiences in Nigeria used car radios during the 2011 general election. Specifically, it examined whether drive-time audiences received and were influenced by political information programs on the radio compared to other audiences. The study employed surveys including in-depth interviews and questionnaires of drive-time audiences. Key findings were that car radio was very helpful for drive-time audiences to stay informed about the political process and election, and that political information programs received via car radio influenced their decisions about political issues and candidates to a great extent.
Media Consumption Habits of youth is a study of time spend by students or young executives (age group 18 to 30 years) on various media. The study attempts to find out which all type of media youth access, frequency of access and time of the day when they access a particular media.
This document discusses the importance of adopting a new media mindset for journalists and media practitioners. It emphasizes that people now access news and information through various digital tools and platforms, so content needs to be distributed through multiple media to reach audiences. New media allows for multimedia content integration and on-demand access, providing advantages over traditional linear media. The key is developing an understanding of new media tools and how they can better serve audience needs through interactivity and sharing. Adopting a new media mindset is necessary for journalists and media houses to remain relevant.
Advertising media refers to the various channels or vehicles through which promotional content is communicated in various forms such as text, speech, images, videos etc.
Formal & Informal Learning practices in Community Multimedia Centres in Mozam...Sara Vannini
Presented @ Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Research in Education - SSRE 2013 on Integrating formal and informal learning, August 21-23, 2013, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
Mass communication provides both strengths and limitations for conveying information. It allows information to reach a large, heterogeneous audience through channels like television, radio, and social media. However, the messages must compete for audience attention and may have a short lifespan. Mass communication is useful for raising awareness but has limitations in delivering complex or detailed information. Overall, mass communication is an effective way to disseminate health information to wide audiences, but the messages must be tailored to each specific medium and population.
The role of radio broadcasting in public enlightenment (a case study of port...Newman Enyioko
This document summarizes a study on the role of radio broadcasting in public enlightenment in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. The study found that radio broadcasting has been effective in improving awareness and knowledge around issues like culture, rural development, education, hygiene, sanitation, agriculture, and local governance. It has also helped facilitate communication between community leaders and members. Additionally, radio broadcasting was shown to help promote small businesses by creating marketing opportunities and improving sales and incomes. The study recommends obtaining regular feedback from listeners to better understand their preferences and needs.
Radio is a way to send electromagnetic signals over a long distance, to deliver information from one place to another. A machine that sends radio signals is called a transmitter, while a machine that "picks up" the signals is called a receiver or antenna. A machine that does both jobs is a "transceiver". When radio signals are sent out to many receivers at the same time, it is called a broadcast.
Media Consumption Habits of youth is a study of time spend by students or young executives (age group 18 to 30 years) on various media. The study attempts to find out which all type of media youth access, frequency of access and time of the day when they access a particular media.
This document discusses the importance of adopting a new media mindset for journalists and media practitioners. It emphasizes that people now access news and information through various digital tools and platforms, so content needs to be distributed through multiple media to reach audiences. New media allows for multimedia content integration and on-demand access, providing advantages over traditional linear media. The key is developing an understanding of new media tools and how they can better serve audience needs through interactivity and sharing. Adopting a new media mindset is necessary for journalists and media houses to remain relevant.
Advertising media refers to the various channels or vehicles through which promotional content is communicated in various forms such as text, speech, images, videos etc.
Formal & Informal Learning practices in Community Multimedia Centres in Mozam...Sara Vannini
Presented @ Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Research in Education - SSRE 2013 on Integrating formal and informal learning, August 21-23, 2013, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
Mass communication provides both strengths and limitations for conveying information. It allows information to reach a large, heterogeneous audience through channels like television, radio, and social media. However, the messages must compete for audience attention and may have a short lifespan. Mass communication is useful for raising awareness but has limitations in delivering complex or detailed information. Overall, mass communication is an effective way to disseminate health information to wide audiences, but the messages must be tailored to each specific medium and population.
The role of radio broadcasting in public enlightenment (a case study of port...Newman Enyioko
This document summarizes a study on the role of radio broadcasting in public enlightenment in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. The study found that radio broadcasting has been effective in improving awareness and knowledge around issues like culture, rural development, education, hygiene, sanitation, agriculture, and local governance. It has also helped facilitate communication between community leaders and members. Additionally, radio broadcasting was shown to help promote small businesses by creating marketing opportunities and improving sales and incomes. The study recommends obtaining regular feedback from listeners to better understand their preferences and needs.
Radio is a way to send electromagnetic signals over a long distance, to deliver information from one place to another. A machine that sends radio signals is called a transmitter, while a machine that "picks up" the signals is called a receiver or antenna. A machine that does both jobs is a "transceiver". When radio signals are sent out to many receivers at the same time, it is called a broadcast.
The document discusses media influence and its effects. It covers:
I. The development of different forms of mass media including broadcast, film, internet, mobile, print media.
II. How media influences young people through advertising and shaping beliefs and values. Excessive violence and unhealthy body images in media can negatively impact youth.
III. The connection between media and public opinion, as media is now the most powerful tool for shaping public opinion and perceptions.
What Old Media can teach New Media: Media Convergence & Integration, Social M...Howard Greenstein
The document discusses various topics related to media convergence and integration, social media, and professionalism in digital communications. It provides a history of different media forms and how they have converged. It also discusses how various media, like television, computers, and mobile devices, are integrated and how users consume content across multiple screens. The document advocates for professionalism when creating and sharing content online.
Research on Socially Enabled TV Advertisingsarah_cui
How many digital devices do you have? According to the 2014 Nielsen Digital Consumer Report, Americans now own four digital devices on average, and the average U.S. consumer spends 60 hours a week consuming content across devices. The proliferation of digital devices and platforms contributes to the media revolution and blurring traditional media definitions.
As a result, consumers’ media habits are changing. Nowadays, watching TV while simultaneously using a smartphone, laptop or tablet is on the verge of becoming a majority behavior worldwide. A survey of 55,000 people by the research consultancy TNS shows that 56% of Americans engage in another digital activity when they are watching TV. The rapid adoption of a second screen has transformed the traditional TV watching experience. Instead of only watching TV, audiences now are enhancing their viewing experience by actively surfing the Web, engaging with social networks and shopping online while they are watching TV. Especially, this “multitasking” behavior is fostering a surge of real-time social media conversation between friends, fans and online communities.
Facing this new trend of media usage, advertisers want to introduce socially enabled TV advertising to communicate with their target audiences. In this way, audiences could be actively interacting with ads and co-creating advertising content. To get a better understanding of how audiences think about this new form of advertising, we conducted indepth interviews in this research.
The first part of this report closely examines audiences’ TV watching behaviors, social media uses and the ways that they engage with media. Then we give our analysis of primary data in detail and provide three key findings: Bonding Facilitator, Reciprocal Interaction and Hashtag Marketing. Finally, our recommendations will be offered about what could be done to further improve the engagement and the effectiveness of socially enabled TV advertising.
Mass communication involves a single source transmitting information to a large audience through mass media like newspapers, television, and the internet. Some problems facing mass communication include television violence negatively influencing children's behavior, the objectification of women in media, and factual errors in news stories. Additionally, media often chases sensational stories and overdramatizes news for profit rather than providing important information. Promising approaches to address these issues involve improved education and training of journalists, using methods like interviews, focus groups, and content analysis to better understand media impacts and inaccuracies.
The combined effect of television, internet, and print advertising on societyComputerman Friend
The document discusses the evolution of advertising and how consumers interact with different media like television, internet, radio and print. It notes that television and radio make up the majority of media consumption time but internet usage is growing. The document also examines how advertising through multiple media can create synergistic effects and influence consumer purchasing decisions. While television and print currently dominate advertising spending, internet advertising is growing rapidly and may soon surpass other media.
This document discusses the concept of media convergence. It provides several definitions of convergence, including the coming together of previously separate industries like computing, printing, film and audio due to technological developments and mergers between companies. Convergence is described as the flow of content across multiple media platforms, cooperation between industries, and how audiences will access content from different sources. The document also discusses different types of convergence including technological, economic, cultural, organic, and global convergence. It notes some advantages and disadvantages of convergence for both media industries and audiences.
The document discusses new media and its history and impact. It defines new media as digital technologies like the internet, websites, and interactive content. New media allows on-demand access from any device and user interactivity. Examples mentioned include social media, CDs, DVDs, and digital technologies transforming old media. The rise of new media has led to increased media fragmentation and availability of content. New media has both positive impacts like more communication and negative impacts like manipulation. In Bangladesh, new media use has grown rapidly via internet and smartphones, influencing public opinion and protests.
D yanich, local tv & shared services agreements, honoluluHonolulu Civil Beat
This document summarizes a research study analyzing the impact of a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) among three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii. The SSA combined the news operations of stations KIVE, KHNL and KGMB into a single entity called Hawaii News Now. The study examines any differences in the content and distribution of stories between the SSA stations and non-SSA stations before and after the SSA took effect through a content analysis of newscasts. The goal is to test claims that the SSA would negatively impact news diversity and competition in the market.
This document discusses a study on the relationship between television programs and cultural proximity and how they can promote non-violent behavior. The study found that most respondents in Abia State, Nigeria are exposed to Western TV channels, which contain more violence, than local channels. It also found that television programs that incorporate aspects of local culture help create closeness between the programs and viewers. The document concludes that culturally-relevant TV programs can help reduce violence in society by promoting moral virtues against violence. It recommends that the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission more strictly enforce policies on local content to limit foreign cultural influences that could increase violence.
KT Equal presentation on NGA and Digital InclusionDamian Radcliffe
Slides from a presentation given in Feb 2011 at a conference on "Achieving and sustaining digital engagement." The event was sponsored by KT-Equal and Age UK. Slides from all speakers are available at: http://kt-equal.org.uk/calendar/57/27-Achieving-and-sustaining-digital-engagement
This document provides an overview of a collection of research about society online. It discusses three main points:
1) The collection examines how new communication technologies are embedded in various spheres of social life, such as community, politics, economics, and culture.
2) The research uses diverse methodologies, including content analysis, surveys, experiments, ethnography, and historical analysis to study society online.
3) The collection is organized around how new media technologies relate to social capital and community, political engagement, economic transactions, cultural influences, and personal contexts.
Role of Information Communication Technologies in Violence PreventionCat Meurn
This document discusses the potential role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in violence prevention. It begins by providing background on the rise of technologies like smartphones, social media, and remote diagnostics. It then examines several specific ways ICTs have been or could be used to prevent different types of violence, including collective violence (through tools like Ushahidi and hotlines), sexual violence (via reporting apps and awareness campaigns), and intimate partner violence (using texting services and economic empowerment programs). The document argues that while technology is not a panacea, ICTs show promise as part of comprehensive prevention strategies when designed and implemented appropriately.
A large scale study of daily information needs captured in situWookjae Maeng
The goal of this work is to provide a fundamental understanding of the daily information needs of people through a large-scale, in-depth, quantitative investigation. To this end, we have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of information needs to date, spanning a 3-month period and involving more than 100 users. The study employed a contextual experience sampling method, a snippet-based diary technique using SMS technology, and an online Web diary to gather in situ insights into the types of needs that occur from day to day, how those needs are addressed, and how contextual, technological, and demographic factors impact on those needs. Our results not only complement earlier studies but also provide a new understanding of the intricacies of people’s daily information needs.
The document discusses utilizing weight allocation in a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) environment to identify and remove noisy data from social media for improved customer segmentation and targeted advertising. Specifically, it aims to recognize keywords that can help cluster social media users based on demographics and behaviors while eliminating uninfluential data. The approach assigns higher weight to words that frequently appear in a document but rarely in the entire collection compared to common words.
New media refers to mass communication technologies that emerged in recent decades, including the internet, websites, and digital/interactive media. It allows for two-way communication and user participation. While some see new media as empowering citizens and democratizing information, others argue it remains consolidated among large media companies and does not replace traditional media. New media also raises questions about privacy, information quality, and how technology shapes human communication and society.
This document discusses the impact of digital technologies on media and journalism in Kenya. It notes that traditional media have had to adapt to changing trends by embracing digital technologies to remain profitable and relevant due to declining audiences. Media houses have adopted digital technologies like mobile phones and wireless internet to quickly collect, package and disseminate information, though this has sometimes come at the cost of depth and quality. Overall, digital technologies have transformed media production, distribution and consumption in Kenya and influenced how media organizations operate.
This presentation is a contribution to the definition of the New Media concept. Prepared by Ismail H. Polat. (Instructor in New Media Department @ Kadir Has University, Istanbul.
Innovative Projects: Freedom of Expression and Access to InformationPenhleak Chan
How can development cooperation effectively strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and access to information? In order to explore this question, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with implementing several innovative projects in coop- eration with the Deutsche Welle Akademie. Bringing together the long-standing expertise of both organisations, these projects aim at showcasing the potential that lies in human rights-based media development work across the globe.
For more information on the data journalism training as part of the Cambodia project, please see: www.ddjtraining.org
Bjmc i, dcm, unit-iv, media regulation and censorshipRai University
This document discusses media regulation and censorship in India. It covers several key points:
1) India has implemented a Conditional Access System (CAS) which encrypts television channels, requiring subscribers to have a set-top box to decrypt channels they have paid for.
2) CAS aims to give consumers more choice over which channels they pay for, increase transparency in the subscription system, and ensure broadcasters and operators are accurately compensated.
3) However, some argue CAS could negatively impact consumers by requiring them to purchase set-top boxes, and broadcasters if it reduces their subscriber bases.
4) The document examines debates around balancing media freedoms with reasonable restrictions, and ensuring access to information is not
What is Electronic Media? (Introduction)
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This document defines different types of media and discusses their history and roles. It describes traditional print, broadcast, and outdoor media, as well as new digital and social media. The document also covers the advantages and disadvantages of media, and how media plays an important role in shaping democracy by educating people and exposing issues.
The document discusses media influence and its effects. It covers:
I. The development of different forms of mass media including broadcast, film, internet, mobile, print media.
II. How media influences young people through advertising and shaping beliefs and values. Excessive violence and unhealthy body images in media can negatively impact youth.
III. The connection between media and public opinion, as media is now the most powerful tool for shaping public opinion and perceptions.
What Old Media can teach New Media: Media Convergence & Integration, Social M...Howard Greenstein
The document discusses various topics related to media convergence and integration, social media, and professionalism in digital communications. It provides a history of different media forms and how they have converged. It also discusses how various media, like television, computers, and mobile devices, are integrated and how users consume content across multiple screens. The document advocates for professionalism when creating and sharing content online.
Research on Socially Enabled TV Advertisingsarah_cui
How many digital devices do you have? According to the 2014 Nielsen Digital Consumer Report, Americans now own four digital devices on average, and the average U.S. consumer spends 60 hours a week consuming content across devices. The proliferation of digital devices and platforms contributes to the media revolution and blurring traditional media definitions.
As a result, consumers’ media habits are changing. Nowadays, watching TV while simultaneously using a smartphone, laptop or tablet is on the verge of becoming a majority behavior worldwide. A survey of 55,000 people by the research consultancy TNS shows that 56% of Americans engage in another digital activity when they are watching TV. The rapid adoption of a second screen has transformed the traditional TV watching experience. Instead of only watching TV, audiences now are enhancing their viewing experience by actively surfing the Web, engaging with social networks and shopping online while they are watching TV. Especially, this “multitasking” behavior is fostering a surge of real-time social media conversation between friends, fans and online communities.
Facing this new trend of media usage, advertisers want to introduce socially enabled TV advertising to communicate with their target audiences. In this way, audiences could be actively interacting with ads and co-creating advertising content. To get a better understanding of how audiences think about this new form of advertising, we conducted indepth interviews in this research.
The first part of this report closely examines audiences’ TV watching behaviors, social media uses and the ways that they engage with media. Then we give our analysis of primary data in detail and provide three key findings: Bonding Facilitator, Reciprocal Interaction and Hashtag Marketing. Finally, our recommendations will be offered about what could be done to further improve the engagement and the effectiveness of socially enabled TV advertising.
Mass communication involves a single source transmitting information to a large audience through mass media like newspapers, television, and the internet. Some problems facing mass communication include television violence negatively influencing children's behavior, the objectification of women in media, and factual errors in news stories. Additionally, media often chases sensational stories and overdramatizes news for profit rather than providing important information. Promising approaches to address these issues involve improved education and training of journalists, using methods like interviews, focus groups, and content analysis to better understand media impacts and inaccuracies.
The combined effect of television, internet, and print advertising on societyComputerman Friend
The document discusses the evolution of advertising and how consumers interact with different media like television, internet, radio and print. It notes that television and radio make up the majority of media consumption time but internet usage is growing. The document also examines how advertising through multiple media can create synergistic effects and influence consumer purchasing decisions. While television and print currently dominate advertising spending, internet advertising is growing rapidly and may soon surpass other media.
This document discusses the concept of media convergence. It provides several definitions of convergence, including the coming together of previously separate industries like computing, printing, film and audio due to technological developments and mergers between companies. Convergence is described as the flow of content across multiple media platforms, cooperation between industries, and how audiences will access content from different sources. The document also discusses different types of convergence including technological, economic, cultural, organic, and global convergence. It notes some advantages and disadvantages of convergence for both media industries and audiences.
The document discusses new media and its history and impact. It defines new media as digital technologies like the internet, websites, and interactive content. New media allows on-demand access from any device and user interactivity. Examples mentioned include social media, CDs, DVDs, and digital technologies transforming old media. The rise of new media has led to increased media fragmentation and availability of content. New media has both positive impacts like more communication and negative impacts like manipulation. In Bangladesh, new media use has grown rapidly via internet and smartphones, influencing public opinion and protests.
D yanich, local tv & shared services agreements, honoluluHonolulu Civil Beat
This document summarizes a research study analyzing the impact of a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) among three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii. The SSA combined the news operations of stations KIVE, KHNL and KGMB into a single entity called Hawaii News Now. The study examines any differences in the content and distribution of stories between the SSA stations and non-SSA stations before and after the SSA took effect through a content analysis of newscasts. The goal is to test claims that the SSA would negatively impact news diversity and competition in the market.
This document discusses a study on the relationship between television programs and cultural proximity and how they can promote non-violent behavior. The study found that most respondents in Abia State, Nigeria are exposed to Western TV channels, which contain more violence, than local channels. It also found that television programs that incorporate aspects of local culture help create closeness between the programs and viewers. The document concludes that culturally-relevant TV programs can help reduce violence in society by promoting moral virtues against violence. It recommends that the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission more strictly enforce policies on local content to limit foreign cultural influences that could increase violence.
KT Equal presentation on NGA and Digital InclusionDamian Radcliffe
Slides from a presentation given in Feb 2011 at a conference on "Achieving and sustaining digital engagement." The event was sponsored by KT-Equal and Age UK. Slides from all speakers are available at: http://kt-equal.org.uk/calendar/57/27-Achieving-and-sustaining-digital-engagement
This document provides an overview of a collection of research about society online. It discusses three main points:
1) The collection examines how new communication technologies are embedded in various spheres of social life, such as community, politics, economics, and culture.
2) The research uses diverse methodologies, including content analysis, surveys, experiments, ethnography, and historical analysis to study society online.
3) The collection is organized around how new media technologies relate to social capital and community, political engagement, economic transactions, cultural influences, and personal contexts.
Role of Information Communication Technologies in Violence PreventionCat Meurn
This document discusses the potential role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in violence prevention. It begins by providing background on the rise of technologies like smartphones, social media, and remote diagnostics. It then examines several specific ways ICTs have been or could be used to prevent different types of violence, including collective violence (through tools like Ushahidi and hotlines), sexual violence (via reporting apps and awareness campaigns), and intimate partner violence (using texting services and economic empowerment programs). The document argues that while technology is not a panacea, ICTs show promise as part of comprehensive prevention strategies when designed and implemented appropriately.
A large scale study of daily information needs captured in situWookjae Maeng
The goal of this work is to provide a fundamental understanding of the daily information needs of people through a large-scale, in-depth, quantitative investigation. To this end, we have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of information needs to date, spanning a 3-month period and involving more than 100 users. The study employed a contextual experience sampling method, a snippet-based diary technique using SMS technology, and an online Web diary to gather in situ insights into the types of needs that occur from day to day, how those needs are addressed, and how contextual, technological, and demographic factors impact on those needs. Our results not only complement earlier studies but also provide a new understanding of the intricacies of people’s daily information needs.
The document discusses utilizing weight allocation in a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) environment to identify and remove noisy data from social media for improved customer segmentation and targeted advertising. Specifically, it aims to recognize keywords that can help cluster social media users based on demographics and behaviors while eliminating uninfluential data. The approach assigns higher weight to words that frequently appear in a document but rarely in the entire collection compared to common words.
New media refers to mass communication technologies that emerged in recent decades, including the internet, websites, and digital/interactive media. It allows for two-way communication and user participation. While some see new media as empowering citizens and democratizing information, others argue it remains consolidated among large media companies and does not replace traditional media. New media also raises questions about privacy, information quality, and how technology shapes human communication and society.
This document discusses the impact of digital technologies on media and journalism in Kenya. It notes that traditional media have had to adapt to changing trends by embracing digital technologies to remain profitable and relevant due to declining audiences. Media houses have adopted digital technologies like mobile phones and wireless internet to quickly collect, package and disseminate information, though this has sometimes come at the cost of depth and quality. Overall, digital technologies have transformed media production, distribution and consumption in Kenya and influenced how media organizations operate.
This presentation is a contribution to the definition of the New Media concept. Prepared by Ismail H. Polat. (Instructor in New Media Department @ Kadir Has University, Istanbul.
Innovative Projects: Freedom of Expression and Access to InformationPenhleak Chan
How can development cooperation effectively strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and access to information? In order to explore this question, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with implementing several innovative projects in coop- eration with the Deutsche Welle Akademie. Bringing together the long-standing expertise of both organisations, these projects aim at showcasing the potential that lies in human rights-based media development work across the globe.
For more information on the data journalism training as part of the Cambodia project, please see: www.ddjtraining.org
Bjmc i, dcm, unit-iv, media regulation and censorshipRai University
This document discusses media regulation and censorship in India. It covers several key points:
1) India has implemented a Conditional Access System (CAS) which encrypts television channels, requiring subscribers to have a set-top box to decrypt channels they have paid for.
2) CAS aims to give consumers more choice over which channels they pay for, increase transparency in the subscription system, and ensure broadcasters and operators are accurately compensated.
3) However, some argue CAS could negatively impact consumers by requiring them to purchase set-top boxes, and broadcasters if it reduces their subscriber bases.
4) The document examines debates around balancing media freedoms with reasonable restrictions, and ensuring access to information is not
Bjmc i, dcm, unit-iv, media regulation and censorship
Similar to 11.the use of the car radio by nigerian drive time audiences an assessment of the nigerian 2011www.iiste.org call for-paper general elections
What is Electronic Media? (Introduction)
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This document defines different types of media and discusses their history and roles. It describes traditional print, broadcast, and outdoor media, as well as new digital and social media. The document also covers the advantages and disadvantages of media, and how media plays an important role in shaping democracy by educating people and exposing issues.
The document discusses the evolution of media from traditional to social media. It notes that traditional media like newspapers struggled to keep up with rapidly changing technology. Social media allows for two-way conversation and has changed how news is covered and consumed by giving audiences direct access. The rise of social media has brought issues of media trust, local news coverage, and how social media will influence journalism to the forefront. Overall, the document examines the shift from traditional to social media and some of the impacts and opportunities this shift has created.
This document outlines a radio media plan for a Horlicks advertising campaign targeting young mothers. The campaign aims to promote Horlicks as a daily dose of nutrition for children through the message "Mother's voice, Horlicks is the choice." The plan allocates airtime on Radio City in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai, with a total radio budget of Rs. 6.77 crore. Key elements of the plan include identifying the target audience, developing a 30-second radio spot, and scheduling airtimes in the morning, afternoon, and evening.
MASS COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS Ankit Dabral
This document discusses mass communication and public awareness campaigns. It defines mass communication and describes various mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, internet, films, outdoor media, and mobile phones. It then compares different modes of communication in terms of importance and preference, such as television versus newspapers, internet versus newspapers, and television versus radio. Finally, it discusses determining the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns, actions to take after a campaign, and how to measure a campaign's effectiveness.
Online multimedia journalism is the process of combining text, images, sound, videos and graphics, to tell an interesting story with the use of the new technologies and internet.
1) The document discusses using media and events to generate publicity and discusses traditional and modern technologies used for event promotion and media coverage.
2) Social media is an important tool for event promotion that allows organizers to build relationships with audiences and share event information widely.
3) Creating social media pages and posting engaging content about industry news, events, clients are effective ways to promote events and businesses online.
The document discusses the key components and process of mass communication. It defines mass as a large, heterogeneous, and anonymous audience. Mass communication involves senders transmitting messages through mass media channels like newspapers, TV, and radio to a large audience of receivers. The linear model of mass communication includes senders, messages, channels, receivers, and potential for feedback. Mass media plays an important role in society by influencing public opinion and individuals.
Using Machine Learning to Analyse Radio Content in Uganda UN Global Pulse
The document describes a project that uses machine learning to analyze radio content in Uganda for development and humanitarian purposes. It details the development of a Radio Content Analysis Tool that can automatically analyze hundreds of hours of radio broadcasts daily and extract text to identify discussions on predefined topics. Several pilot studies were conducted using this tool to understand how radio data could provide insights on issues like refugee perceptions, disaster impacts, health services, and disease outbreaks. The document outlines the automated and human analysis processes used and discusses opportunities and challenges around using talk radio as a source of big data to inform development goals.
Brought to life by Cheryl Hsu, Kaitlyn Whelan and Rachel Noonan, this strategic foresight project endeavours to understand the current trends and drivers in open media, and through scenario-building and experience-based storytelling extrapolate how the internet might shape the future.
The goal of strategic foresight is to pluralize the possible futures in open media in order to better understand and anticipate drivers of change. The research and information in this dossier is an open resource that can be used to help multi-sector stakeholders develop anticipatory strategies that are more resilient in the face of uncertain futures.
The document provides an introduction to a strategic foresight project exploring trends and possible futures in open media. It outlines emerging trends in digital media landscape including increased self-publishing abilities, on-demand and personalized content consumption, mobile and wireless distribution of media, and the growth of open APIs. The project aims to understand key drivers of change and envision multiple potential futures for open media through scenario building and storytelling.
social media is the new media of the communicationKrishna R
New media is a term that encompasses two trends that have occurred over the past few decades: the evolution of existing media delivery systems and the development of new digital communication technologies.
Radio and television advertising of commercial bank products in Anambra State...AJHSSR Journal
The study investigated the effect of radio and television advertising of commercial bank
product in Anambra State. It sought to reveal the extent these media influence the attitudes; draw attention, build
interest and inspire the customers to patronize banks’ products and services in the state. Relevant theoretical and
empirical literatures were reviewed to build the study framework. A sample of 254 was statistically drawn and
proportionally distributed among the participating bank staff. The primary data used in the study were with the
aid of structured questionnaire. Frequency tables and percentages and multiple regression were employed to
analyse the data. The study found that radio/television adverts played role in informing the customers about
products and services offered by the banks; it have significant influence on persuading the customers; and
ultimately patronizing the advertised products and services indicating that the media significant role in
positively influencing the attitudes; knowledge and purchase behaviour of target audience of the banks. The
study therefore concluded that radio and television adverts have significant effect in advertising commercial
banks products and services in Anambra State.
This proposal suggests conducting empirical research to help BNN make their television programs more interactive using social media. The proposal recommends creating a short online questionnaire for BNN's target audience of 15-35 year olds and promoting it on television and social media. The research would focus on how this group views making BNN television more interactive. It is estimated the research would take two years to develop, administer, analyze and report results. A financial proposal outlines costs of hiring junior, medior and senior researchers over the two year period. The proposal aims to provide recommendations to BNN on how to integrate interactivity based on their target audience's preferences.
This document provides a literature review on television, the internet, and social media to provide context for a research proposal on making BNN television programs more interactive. It discusses television as a social center of free time and meaning. It then reviews literature on how the internet has become an interactive and social technology that is changing business and social life. Finally, it discusses how social networks allow for interactivity and building social networks online, though excessive internet use may reduce concentration and deep reading. The proposal suggests researching BNN's target audience to understand how social media could make television programs more interactive.
Mass media advertising in nigeria problems and prospectsGabriel Ken
In this study, an attempt was made to evaluate the problems and prospects of mass media advertising in Nigeria. We talk of the media mix and the multi-media approach to public relations and advertising, but we seem to be uncertain which particular medium is more success-oriented in carrying out advertising functions ---
radio and television on the one side and newspapers, magazines and books, on the other.
This document is meant to help Sierra Leone researchers. students who want to conduct research on the efficacy of citizen journalism and social media in Sierra Leone.
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The Use of the Car Radio by Nigerian Drive-Time Audiences: an
Assessment of the Nigerian 2011 General Elections
Anthony U. Utulu
Department of Mass Communication, College of Social and Management Sciences,
Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU),Ikeji-Arakeji,
PMB 5006 Illesa, Osun State, Nigeria.
Tel: +234-803-4147797; E-mail: tonnyjcj@yahoo.com; tonnyjcj@gmail.com
Abstract
Latest technological growth has made news gathering and dissemination less burdensome to the mass
communication media personnel. Actually, inventing the car radio could have helped information senders
reach their audiences outside of their homes, offices, places of business and so on. It may be possible that
Drive-Time audiences are also well informed, entertained and educated by using the radio set in their
vehicles as they drive along, just like other audiences. Based on this assumption, using the Nigerian 2011
General Elections, the study investigated if Drive-Time audiences actually utilize car radio to receive
Political Information Programmes (PIPs) more often than using it to receive or listen to other programmes.
More so, if these set of radio audiences actually get well informed about Political Information Programmes
(PIPs) and participate in the ever-growing political discourse compared to the audiences at home, offices,
business places, among others and the extent to which the Political Information Programmes they receive
via the car radio as against other sources affect their decision making about political issues, agenda,
ideologies and so on were also investigated. Adopting the survey research method and two instruments that
is, in-depth interview and questionnaire chosen, data gathered were analyzed using the simple percentage
formula. Hence, it was discovered that car radio was very helpful during the Nigerian 2011 general
elections in getting its audiences informed, educated and entertained about all the political and electoral
processes to a great extent.
Keywords: Drive-Time Audience, Car Radio, Political Information Programmes, Political arena,
Information, Participation, Political Issues/Agenda.
1. Introduction
Throughout the world, the issue of mass communication that is, the act of sending or transmitting
information from a source to a far-flung heterogeneous mass audience through an electronic means would
not be complete without mentioning the radio. Little wonder why Bittner (1989:10) says, “mass
communication is message communicated through mass medium to large group of people”. To Biagi
(2003:3), “mass communication is communication from one person or group of persons through a
transmitting device (a medium) to large audiences or markets”. Sambe (2005:28) expressively posits that:
Mass communication can be defined as a device by which a group of
people working together transmits information to a large heterogeneous
and anonymous audience simultaneously. It is a process by which
information originates from the source to the receiver, having been
thoroughly filtered and transmitted through a channel.
In line with the definitions above, among several others, as put forward by communication
scholars, it is obvious that mass communication cannot take place except with the availability of devices
such as transmitter, television, and other gadgets to serve as medium, channel, among others.
A large number of people as noted in the assertions above has always utilized radio, one of these
medium of mass communication, in receiving information. It can be seen that all the definitions given have
some things in common that is, transmitting message via a medium to large groups of different people
simultaneously. This medium of mass communication has become one of the most important media of
information dissemination (such as news, announcements) among others, entertainment programmes (such
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as music, jokes, tales) among others, commercials and so on, to a far-flung heterogeneous mass audience
simultaneously. The reason for this is its unique features compared to other media such as television,
newspaper, journal among others. Radio has got an advantage in reaching more people simultaneously than
television (broadcast medium), video – VCR, DVD, VCD (narrowcast media) and print media, which
include newspapers, magazines, periodicals, bulletins among others. The reason for this is because it is
usually very portable and can be carried about by holding it with the hand, even in the pockets, bags, et
cetera. Aside its portability, it can also function with the use of at least a mere common, cheap and
affordable “Type R20 UM-1 D size” battery of just 1.5 volts depending on the size of the radio. Also, radio
does not need any primary and/or secondary partner to be connected to before it can function; unlike the
video that needs the television. Currently, technology has helped in producing more portable and cheap
radio sets that can just be pinned/clipped to one’s cloth or even hung on the neck. These are as small as the
handsets; sometimes they are even smaller in size. This shows how portable a radio can be thereby making
it relatively possible to be carried about on the streets, market places, farms, among other places.
Notably, though, technologists have tried and have manufactured handy televisions especially on
handsets and other devices. However, the beauty of the radio in its handiness and mobility cannot be
compared to any other mass communication device.
Biagi (2003: 127), laying credence to the important function and role of radio, postulates: “Today,
our memory of events that happen in the first half of the 20th century is directly tied to radio. Radio gave its
listeners an immediate record at a time when world events demanded attention”. Thus, the important roles
radio plays in human day- to-day living are evident. Unlike the newspaper that will always offer next - day
reports and occasionally extras and magazines that offer long term analyses, radio brings news reports,
analyses, to audiences as quickly as possible in as much as the information about an event and/or news
break get to the radio stations’ studios.
Surprisingly, it is worthy of note that radio initially used to be the center of attention in the
owners’ sitting rooms, but today this medium could be found in other places other than the sitting rooms
that is, in the bedrooms, kitchens, workshops, stores, even in vehicles, and so on. However, for this study,
the researcher’s area of interest is the car radio and its user – Drive-Time audience (DTA). As mentioned
earlier, radio has found its way into the vehicles - cars, trucks, lorries, trailers and what have you, also on
motor cycles. Owing to this, hopefully, people in these vehicles may also receive radio programmes and
probably enjoy and get gratification (satisfaction) sought from whatever programme(s) they listened to such
as news, commercials, music, jokes, sermons, analyses among others just as audiences relaxing at homes,
offices, bars, hotels, shopping malls, et cetera, are enjoying and getting satisfied. More so, people have
been able to choose what they would want to listen to through the radio in their cars. From tapes to discs
and now digital files, drivers keep gaining more control of their listening choices. In this study, these
audiences receiving the radio programmes in their vehicles would be tagged “Drive-Time audiences
(DTAs).” Actually, radio plays an important role as it allows audiences get abreast of the various events,
happenings, within and outside their immediate environment, wherever they are in as much as there is a
functional radio set available.
It may be said that Drive-Time audiences, while in their cars, can also tune the car radio to a
desired station and get informed, entertained or educated as they drive on the highways. For the purpose of
this study, Drive-Time audiences would be categorized as drivers and passengers who listen to or use car
radios from 6-10 am and 4-10 pm. The reason for this is because these are the times drivers are most likely
to be in their vehicles driving off to their offices and places of business and when they are likely to be
driving back to their different homes and/or destinations either as a driver or as a passenger.
2. Study Objectives
The core objectives of this study is to investigate whether Drive-Time audiences through using the
car radio in their vehicles actually utilize it to receive Political Information Programmes (PIPs). Second, it
is also carried out to reveal whether these set of radio audiences actually get well informed about Political
Information Programmes compared to the radio audiences at home, offices, business places, among others.
More so, since radio information senders usually use the medium to set agenda for political activities
among others, it would be revealed whether the Political Information Programmes have any influence on
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them especially when it has to do with their decision-making on the choice of candidate(s), political party,
and adherence to instructions given by electoral processes regulators, among others.
3. Statement of the Problem
The role of radio as a medium of mass communication in our societies across the globe is actually
important because it is one medium that could accompany almost every type of activity. A Car radio is
usually built in a way that the driver has the option of either tuning to radio stations or selecting the
tape/CD/DVD/VCD/MP3, et cetera player built in the car radio, depending on, which is installed. The
choice for these depends solely on what the driver in particular wants at that particular moment in time.
Different bands can be selected and tuned to either in the Short Wave (SW) mode or the Frequency
Modulation (FM) mode. Whichever the driver chooses, meaningful sounds would be heard in as much as it
is tuned aright to the desired radio station. Conversely, the driver may wish to slot in a cassette or disk to
listen to a pre-recorded song, instructions (sermons, lectures and so on) among several others. Whatever he
decides to do, the most important thing is that the desired satisfaction is likely to be got. It could be on any
programme. However, this study’s focus is on the Political Information Programmes (PIPs) is the focus.
Thus, the study is concerned with if gratifications sought by the Drive-Time Audiences on political
information programme(s) are gratification obtained at the end of the day.
If truly, Drive-Time audiences utilize radio sets installed in their vehicles, it would not be out of
place to ask if they really get the desired satisfaction from listening to whichever programme they prefer
especially Political Information Programmes (PIP)s (such as news, debates, jingles, interviews, manifestos,
and so on). One may think that those who are relaxing at homes, offices et cetera, may likely have the
chance of paying more attention to these radio messages more than Drive-Time audiences, by so doing, get
more satisfied with gratification obtained by listening to the Political Information Programmes. More so, it
could be considerable to believe that attentive listening to a speaker or message would go a long way to
help the listener understand whatever stimulus received at a particular point in time. Therefore, on the part
of Drive-Time audiences who have to concentrate on driving and at the same time listening to these PIPs,
would it be that the audiences actually get gratification as intended?
Hence, this study investigated the use of car radio by Drive-Time audiences (DTAs) and
subsequent gains got. Hence, answers were given to the underlisted research questions raised in the study.
4. Research Questions
i. Do Drive-Time audiences actually get gratification sought on Political Information
Programmes listened to on the radio set in their vehicle while driving compared to the people
at homes, offices and/or places of business?
ii. To what extent do Drive-Time audiences get gratification sought on Political Information
Programmes (PIPs) listened to on their radio set while driving compared to other
programmes.
iii. Do the messages on Political Information Programmes (PIPs) got through the radio set in their
vehicle while driving influence on their decision-making concerning political issues?
iv. To what extent do the Political Information Programmes Drive-Time listened to on the radio
set in their vehicle influence their decision-making concerning political issues.
5. Methodology (Research Design)
Research is a method of thinking in an orderly sequence. The researcher should
try to assume an inquisitive posture. Such a posture helps in carefully
scrutinizing the facts before they are accepted. Also central to the concept of
research is that it represents some orderly, organized, systematic and consistent
pattern of thinking that gives structures and directions to an investigator’s
knowledge of facts and methods (Akinboye and Akinboye, 1998:2).
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This study employed the qualitative research methodology using the survey research method
because the design is appropriate when any study is dealing with human subjects, attitude, opinion,
perception, disposition, knowledge and practice, which are all embedded in this study.
Two instruments – in-depth interview and questionnaire were subsequently employed.
Specifically, the study examined Drive-Time audiences’ opinions as regards their use of car radio for
receiving Political Information Programmes (PIPs) during the 2011 general elections in the country. The
influence of the use of the medium on their decision-making on the general elections concerns was also
looked into. Informative programmes such as news, announcements, campaigns, manifestos, and jingles
were the content categories for this study.
Hence, in-depth interview was conducted and questionnaire administered on respondents for this
study. These helped in the gathering of data on the subject matter. Responses got were subsequently
analyzed. The responses helped the researcher in interpreting the various data collected for the study.
6. Study Population and Sample Size
Data were collected in the Western part of the country, precisely in Ibadan. This decision was
made because of proximity factor and it is believed that the geographical area within the country is highly
populated. Thus, a reasonable percentage of Drive-Time audiences from the six major geo-political areas
that make up the country to represent the entire country’s Drive-Time audiences’ population live in the
geographical area. Hence, samples were drawn from Drive-Time audiences (private, public and commercial
vehicle drivers/passengers).
7. In-depth Interview
Notably, in-depth interviews enable researchers to obtain as much detailed information from the
interviewees as possible. Explanations about critical issues can be derived from such encounters. Wimmer
and Dominick (2000), says: “apart from the capacity to generate a large, relevant volume of data, the
interaction between the researcher and his respondent(s) can produce fresh and even unintended facts about
the subject(s).” This made it imperative for this research instrument to be chosen for this study.
Using this instrument, twelve (12) respondents were interviewed. The interviewees were
purposively selected by the researcher. Selection was based on accessibility and their knowledge on the
subject matter. Hence, selection of respondents were in two phases. For the purpose of this study,
government and private office workers were categorized as public audience while public transporters and
business personnel were categorized as private audience. Six (6) interviewees each were chosen and
interviewed. These were people that have had at least the basic educational qualification not less than the
West African Secondary School Certificate (WASSC). It would be noted that the characteristics of these
respondents (that is, always on the move) made it somewhat burdensome to get them interviewed.
However, with the help of research assistants engaged, the interviews were successful. Responses got from
them were analyzed and were used in giving adequate answers to the research questions after adequate
analysis.
8. Questionnaire
Questionnaire as a research instrument gives recipients an independent opportunity to bare their
minds on a given topic based on the puzzle posted by the researcher through the questionnaire items. The
use of the open and alongside close-ended questionnaire items and other formats such as likert scale,
among others obviously created room for independent (that is, without fear or favour) responses from the
respondents. In this study, questionnaire was adopted to get the Drive-Time audiences’ views, believes,
about the research questions raised.
Generally, a total number of two hundred (200) questionnaire were produced and administered.
Purposive equal distribution of hundred (100) questionnaire for each group that is, government and private
workers and public transporters and business personnel was carried out. Thus, one hundred questionnaire
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were administered on each group. In all, a total number of one hundred and eighty-seven (187) that is, 90%
questionnaire were finally retrieved. Ninety-seven (97) – 51.9% from government and private workers,
while ninety (90) that is, 48.1% were retrieved from public transporters and business personnel.
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAME WORK
9. The Car Radio/Brief History
Early car radio experimentation was done in 1922 by George Frost. The earliest listing of a car
radio in “Radio Collector’s Guide, 1921-1932” is the Airtone 3D in 1925. Mass production of car radios
began in 1927 with the Transitone TH-1. Two years later two brothers in Chicago, Paul and Joseph Galvin
of Galvin Manufacturing, developed a car radio that was marketed in 1930 by Motorola as model 5T71.
By the 1930s, AM car radios were common. In 1952 the first FM tuner to join the AM band in
cars was introduced, although FM radio listening remained scarce all decade. Chrysler included a turntable
in its Imperial series, but the idea never caught on. The advent of the portable transistor radio in the late
1950s created another way to listen to radio while moving in a car.
The 8-track tape player made its debut in Ford vehicles in 1965, nine years after Ford began to
feature similar 4-track tape players. This system of tape cartridges won over turntables in the car because
cartridges were more stable and gave the listener more control. An album was divided into four stereo
programmes, accounting for the eight tracks. The listener could select a programme.
Cassettes were introduced in the early 1960s and made their way into the car by 1970. Cassettes
became the most popular audio medium in 1977, as 8-track tapes faded. Cassettes were smaller and easier
to store and had sound quality that rivaled all audio formats. The surge in popularity of FM radio in the late
1970s paralleled the development of car receivers that could pick up FM signals better while driving.
Citizens Band radio, used by truckers, was a brief fad in 1976.
FM became so popular in the 1980s that AM stations had to reinvent themselves, leading to more
talk and sports channels. With the expansion of radio dial choices for drivers, button-pushing became part
of the common listening experience. The compact disc was introduced by Philips and Sony in 1982, and the
first CD players in cars arrived in 1984. A year later, automatic CD changers began to appear in cars.
The cassette remained viable through the 1990s but inevitably was overshadowed by the CD. The
cassette had been the best medium to date for making “mix tapes” that was ideal for road trips. People
making their own CD compilations paralleled the rise in popularity of personal computers. DVD players
first appeared in 1996.
The 2000s marked acceleration in the development of portable digital gadgets. Apple introduced
the iPod in 2001, allowing 1,000 songs to be stored on a small player. The iPod and MP3 players became
accessories for car listening. Another new package of listening choices came with Sirius XM, a satellite
radio company offering hundreds of channels that can be heard around the world.
(www.auctionexport.com/inventory/).
Notably, radio is the first modern media form, and had a huge impact on the history of the 20th
century. For the first time information could be broadcast, that is, it could be received by anyone with the
right equipment, without wires. The birth of radio ushers in the era of mass communications. Early car
radios were enormous, with sporty reception, but the technology that was developed during World War II
helped refine them. Report shows that in 1946, 9 million cars had radios. By 1963, the number was 50
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million (Biagi, 2003:136). Although the advent of television especially colour television posed a great
challenge to radio because television can successfully combine audio and visual. Thus, pictures are seen,
colours and movement of objects make television programmes more real and attractive to the audiences
(viewers) unlike radio that can only offer audio (sound) alone. However, instead of dying after the spread of
television, radio actually managed to thrive by adapting to an audience that sought the portability and
immediacy that it offers. Worthy of note is that nothing can beat radio for quick news bulletin or the latest
hit (music, jokes, adverts, et cetera) as mentioned earlier. Because of this unique feature of radio, the globe
has been witnessing a period of rapid expansion in its use as governments, politicians, entrepreneurs and
advertisers are grasping its potentials. It is sure that using radio for information dissemination about their
products, ideas, concepts, means reaching more people within and outside the urban and sub-urban areas at
the shortest time possible. Interestingly, since the inception of radio in the 1890s, instead of dwindling or
fizzling out of existence when faced with television challenge, radio has maintained its effect and
importance to the masses till date especially with modern technology. Viewing the important roles of radio
and its powerful force on audiences especially when it was newly introduced to the people, Biagi
(2003:133) says, “Radio created a new kind of collective national experience. Radio in the 1930s and 1940s
became a powerful cultural and political force. Radio gave multitudes of people a new, inexpensive source
of information and entertainment”. As discussed above, Drive-Time audiences could not have been left out.
Thus, radio created a massive global experience on all and sundry.
Talking about car radio, probably with the same powerful effect on listeners, it carries different
bands that is, Short Wave (SW) which refers to waves of a length, which is less than 60 meters. On the
other hand, the driver may tune to the other band - Frequency Modulation (FM) mode in which the
amplitude that is, the strength of the radio waves does not change, but the frequency that is, the number of
waves each second varies, producing a very clear sound.
Actually, technological improvements have brought about an upsurge for car radios. At present,
every manufactured vehicle (heavy-duty inclusive) carries a radio. The reason for this cannot be
unconnected to the fact that getting the masses informed of various happenings across the globe and getting
them entertained, is actually a serious business. Owing to this, a media station that is able to always get the
people informed as quickly as possible will definitely be the peoples’ choice. It should be noted that daily,
many developments come up in the political, social-economic, geographical, religions arenas globally that
masses must be informed about. For the media practitioners to effectively and efficiently perform their
functions, technological improvements on the medium and its use for such information dissemination
became inevitable. Based on the foregoing, then, it is believed that audiences/masses must be reached
anywhere they might be at any particular point in time even in the rural areas. For a Drive-Time audience
who has his car radio on and tunes to a radio station, it is likely that he/she may by no means receive the
information sent via the medium – radio, at that same time those at home, office, shop, bar, hotel, and so
on, are receiving such information. Thus, audiences’ simultaneous reception of radio signals.
10. Theoretical Framework
The media theories that would be discussed in this study are the Agenda Setting theory and Uses
and Gratifications theory. The basic reason for this is their relevance to the study. Interestingly, the study
looked at Drive-Time audiences and their use of a mass communication medium – the car radio in
receiving information about political issues during the Nigerian 2011 general elections. It would be agreed
that one of the major roles the mass media play is to set agenda on issue in the societies. The reasons for the
act is usually to create a platform for such issues to be discussed, debated, analyzed and so on especially for
clarity to the public. Such issues are the various debates, discussions, before, during and after the 2011
general elections in the country – Nigeria.
For this study, two theories shall be reviewed. As mentioned above, these theories are agenda
setting theory and uses and gratification theory.
11. Agenda Setting Theory
Over the decades, the mass communication media have shown a great deal of understanding in
their important role of covering issues in the societies and disseminating the outcomes of such issues to the
masses. In connected to this, the Nigerian mass communication media have always created awareness
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about the political stance of the country. They have also helped majority of Nigerians to know about the
rules of playing politics devoid of malice, rancor, distrust and what have you. In doing this, the mass media
are seen as setting agenda on political issues as it concerns federal, state and local government. In other
words, transmitting messages about political issues for instance during the Nigerian 2011 general elections
through their channels make them play the agenda-setting role. The frequency of transmission of media
contents about the issues really helped in educating the masses at one time or the other.
Note worthy, there is usually more news everyday than the any media can possibly accommodate.
The reason for this is that several issues come up almost every second in every field of life – politics,
religion, socio-economy and so on. Laying credence to this assertion, Akpabio (2005: 173 - 176) posits:
There can be doubt about the fact that there is more news everyday than the
media can possibly accommodate. It is equally true that there could be a dearth
of news to much so that what on a good day would not even merit a mention
could make headlines. However, because the former scenario is the reality,
media gatekeepers using news judgment criteria pick and choose what
constitutes the day’s news.
Various scholars have highlighted different ways the effects of the mass communication media
reflect in the lives of the people. Through the mass media, the masses are usually informed, educated, and
entertained. Whichever way these come, the end products are usually information dissemination. As
Akpabio clearly stated above, actually, mass communication media people through their professional
judgment choose what should constitute the day’s news. Media researchers in their support for this notion
have at one time or the other stressed that the mass media set agenda on issues/events in our societies. In
other words, it is believed that the mass communication media set agenda through the various ways they
package and disseminate the news, information and entertainment – which include information about
politics (elections’ registration exercise, the government and the governed agenda on politics among
several other issues) to their far-flung heterogeneous mass audience. For instance, during the 2010 general
elections, series of programmes were packaged; some were used to engage Nigerians (especially opinion
leaders) on discussions on the state of the country’s political environment, et cetera. These to a large extent
helped in getting the people to know what is and/or were happening in their environment, within the local,
state and federal levels.
McCombs and Shaw are known to be the pronouncers of the agenda setting theory of the mass
communication media. They coined the term agenda setting in 1972 with a core idea that the media
emphasis on an issue influences the audience to also view the issue as important (McQuail, 2000:512).
Then, one could submit that Agenda setting is viewed as the power of the media to structure issues and
inject them into the minds of the people using programmes such as interviews, discussions and even
political advertisements to mention but a few. Thus, the media, by focusing repeated and major attention on
an event or set of related events such as news, information and/or advert messages as mentioned earlier on
politics transferred the event into an issue that is highly discussed by the masses across the country
especially because of its importance. Previous elections have always been flawed by irregularities across
board ranging from ballot box stuffing and sometimes snatching, rigging, among others. Placement, size
and frequency of appearance of stories are ways through which the media attach certain weights to news
stories of any sort.
Agenda setting posits that audiences learn these salient issues from the news media, thus,
incorporating a similar set of weights and importance into their own personal agenda. In agreement to the
above, Folarin (1998:75-76) puts it this way:
the mass media have an impact on agenda setting in that they have the ability
to choose or emphasize certain topics thereby causing the public to perceive
the issues or topics as important. This implies that the mass media pre-
determine what issues are considered as important at a given time in a given
society.
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Agenda setting is an idea that “the news media by display of news, come to determine the issue
that public think and talk about” (Soverin and Tankard, 1992:207). On the other hand, Lang and Lang in
Soverin and Tankard (1992:210), postulates: “the mass media force attention to certain issues. They build
up public images of political figures. They are constantly presenting objects suggesting what individuals in
the mass should think and talk about.” More so, Sandman et al. (1976:19), see agenda setting as “the
editorial decision that a particular event is not news if the news media ignores it or says so.”
In light of the above, the Nigerian mass communication media in their unrelenting efforts in laying
great emphases to political issues through their the various ways they package, frame, and disseminate
information about various issues on Nigerian political stances to the masses made them play the agenda-
setting role. They have really made debates and discussions on this issues spread across the rank and file.
This is seen to have played a positive effect on Nigerians as the level of irregularities during the 2011
general elections reduced drastically. Thus, the elections were generally perceived to be free and fair.
Without mincing words, the fact still remains that viewing the theory and/or model of the mass
media effect, it would be noted that they would always in considerable ways affected the masses’ behaviour
to a large extent, as they most times set agenda on issues thereby making people think and talk about such
events or issues. For instance, the mass communication media’s constant and consistent coverage of issues
relating to how the country would have free, fair and credible elections, paid off. This was seen in the most
Nigerians turned up for the registration exercise and subsequently participating in the elections. Laying
credence to this development, Utulu (2011:18) asserts:
If actually the mass media succeeds in causing people to think towards a particular
direction depending on the topical issues of the moment, then people’s beliefs can be
altered too that is, making them tilt either (a little) to the right or to the left based on
how much the media succeed in capturing their minds. Until the media was
aggressively used in educating government, agencies and Nigerians on the need for a
free and fair elections, most Nigerian were not willing to participate in the elections.
Media reports actually show that Nigerians decided to participate in the elections because of
various mass communication media role of bombarding the people with views, ideas, on the best way to get
the right candidate(s) voted into power. The election at the federal level ushered in the Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan’s government of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with a convincing win over other political
parties.
12. Uses and Gratifications Theory
The Uses and Gratifications theory is of the view that the media consumers influence the entire
process of communication because they select their messages based on their needs, beliefs or preferences
(Folarin, 1998:65). Here, attention is shifted from media production and dissemination to consumption.
Research revealed that the formation of uses and gratifications theory dates back to the 1930s and
1940s when Herza Herzog argued that members of the audience might listen to a radio programmeme for
different reasons. Miller (2002:242) reported that, taking a cue from Herzog, McQuail, Blumler and Brown
(1972) concluded that people, for instance, listened to quiz on radio for self-appraisal, interaction,
education and excitement.
Worthy of note the actual development of the uses and gratifications theory took place in the
1960s and 1970s. During that period, Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch (1974) generated the approach’s first
formal statement. As noted by Miller (2002:243) and as often quoted by communication theory scholars,
the key points of the statement are “the social and psychological origins of needs, which generate
expectations of the mass media or other sources, which lead to differential patterns of media exposure (or
engagement in other activities), resulting in need gratifications and other consequences, perhaps mostly
unintended ones.”
In the 1980s, according to Miller (2002:243), the development of the uses and gratifications theory
took another dimension. Distinctions were made along the lines of content versus process gratifications
(Cutler and Danowski, 1980); cognitive versus affective/imaginative gratifications (McQuail, 1984); and
instrumental versus virtual gratifications (Rubin, 1984).
In the view of Swanson (1992) in Miller (2002:243),
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these contrasts all indicate the dissimilarity between “gratifications that result from the
pleasurable experience of media content and realized during consumption…and
gratifications that result from learning information from media content and subsequently
putting it to use in practical affairs.”. However, the theory recognizes the fact that what is
sought by the audience may not always be obtained (from the media).
More so, with a look at the uses and gratification and media dependency theories, Rubin, (1982),
says, “both theories agree that media use can lead to media dependency.” In addition, the media
dependency theory states that the more dependent an individual is on the media to fulfill needs, the more
significant the media becomes to that person. DeFleur and Ball-Rokeach (1976) illustrate dependency as
the relationship between media content, the nature of society, and the behaviour of audiences. People
would become more dependent on media that meet a number of their needs than on media that touch only a
few needs. The numbers of sources open to an individual influences dependency on a certain medium.
Individuals are usually more dependent on available media if their access to media alternatives is limited.
The more alternatives there are for an individual, the less is the dependency on, and influence of, a specific
medium. (Littlejohn, 2002).
In the light of these however, there have been criticisms of the Uses and Gratifications Theory.
Like other theories of mass communication, some aspects of the Uses and Gratifications theory have
attracted criticisms over the years. Some of the critical remarks are that:
i. The theory disregards the processes through which the texts obtained from the media are
interpreted by the audience or reader;
ii. Although the developmental efforts of its proponents are interesting and prolific, its research has
not resulted in a “logical” theory and
iii. That the theory is too individualistic in concept and operation; that it has taken the attempt to
theorize communication from the “all-powerful media effects” of the 1930s to the other extreme –
an audience or a reader whose will and preferences are supreme.
However, DeFleur’s reasoning about mass media communication theory generally should douse
skepticisms about the integrity of the Uses and Gratifications Theory. DeFleur cited by Miller (2002:246)
insisted, “Mass communication research seldom follows a programmematic approach, holding back the
pace of theoretical development.” This means that there is no perfect theory of communication in terms of
development and the capacity to guide related researches.
In trying to further re-position the Uses and Gratifications Theory in communication research and
defend its validity, Littlejohn and Foss (2005:286), citing Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch (1974:12), have
observed as follows:
Compared with classical effects studies, the uses and gratifications
approach takes the media consumer rather than the media message as its
starting point, and explores his communication behaviour in terms of his
direct experience with the media. It views the members of the audience as
actively utilizing media contents, rather than being passively acted upon by
the media. Thus, it does not assume a direct relationship between messages
and effects, but postulates instead that members of the audience put
messages to use, and that such usages act as intervening variables in the
process of effect.
Now, it could be said that most of the theories have their strong and weak points as it were.
Notwithstanding, the uses and gratification has actually threw light on the fact that humans are not and
cannot be passive users of the mass communication media. Rather, there is the active power of choice
based on gratification sought (GS) and gratification obtained (GO). Thus, whenever people can get what
they are looking for through the mass media, the more they will be interested to continue to use the media.
More so, Utulu, (2011:18-19) with an effort to add a voice to the established views, idea, about
the uses and gratification theory by communication scholars, developed a model to show that it is factual
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that people will always depend on the media that meet their information access expectations. However, he
submitted through the model below that a particular media organization might not meet people’s
gratification obtained on every field of life at the same time and vice versa.
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Fig.1: Individual’s choice of mass media use based on gratification sought (GS) and gratification obtained (GO).
13. Data Analysis and Discussion of Findings
This paper has examined the use of the car radio by Drive-Time audiences (DTAs) to obtain
information about Political Information Programmes during Nigerian 2011 general elections. Hence, it
investigated if the Drive-Time audiences through using the car radio in their vehicles actually utilize it to
receive Political Information Programmes (PIPs). Second, it also investigated if these set of radio
audiences actually get well informed about Political Information Programmes (PIPs) compared to the
audiences at home, offices, business places, among others. Third, investigation was carried out to reveal if
the Political Information Programmes they got access to through the car radio had any impact on them
especially when it has to do with their decision-making on the choice of candidate(s), political party, and
adherence to instructions given by electoral processes regulators about the processes of the elections,
among others.
With analysis on the data gathered using the selected survey research methodology instruments –
structured in-depth interview and questionnaire, results were got and analyzed using the simple percentage
format. These results were therefore, discussed in line with the research questions raised for the study.
The tables below show results got from the questionnaire administered on recipients. They were
complemented by responses got from the in-depth interview conducted on the chosen recipients, who made
up the study’s sample size.
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Table 1: Responses on whether respondents actually get gratification sought on Political
Information Programmes while driving compared to the people at homes, offices
and/or places of business.
Groups Options/Responses Frequency/
Yes No Not Sure Invalid Total (%)
Public Audiences
(Gov’t & private
workers) 67 23 5 2 97(52.9)
Private Audience
(public transporters
& bus. personnel) 67 13 7 3 90(48.1)
Total 134 36 12 5 187
(71.7%) (19.3%) (6.4%) (2.6%) (100)
In providing answer(s) to the first question raised for this study that is, whether respondents
actually get gratification sought on Political Information Programmes while driving compared to the people
at homes, offices and/or places of business? The application of the data on table 1 above shed light on this.
The data clearly show that these set of mass communication media audiences actually get the gratification
sought from the use of their car radio in listening to the packaged and disseminated programmes on politics
during the Nigerian 2011 general elections. The total number of those who said ‘yes’ from the two groups
(private and public) outnumbered others with 134 respondents (67 from each group) that is, 71.7%. On the
other hand, the respondents who said ‘no’ are 36 (23 and 13 from each group respectively) that is, 19.3%,
those who are ‘not sure’ are just 12 (5 private and 7 public) that is, 6.4% while only 5 questionnaire (2
private and 3 public) were not suitably completed making them invalid, that is, 2.6%. In addition, laying
credence to some comments got through some of the open-ended items of the questionnaire (items 18, 20
and 22) and responses got from the structured interview sessions, all the public audiences - government and
private workers interviewed agreed that they get gratification sought on political programmes they listen to
through their car radio with little distractions while driving, as every information disseminated where
usually got and understood. They (especially the government and private workers) noted that most times,
they were usually alone in the vehicles.
However, 2 of the private audiences - public transporters’ responses where slightly different from
general agreement as they noted that sometimes especially when they have to attend to passengers, some
information disseminated at that point are not usually got. They pointed out however, that because they still
listen to radio at home after the day’s work, make them get better informed.
The general agreement was that the level of gratification sought and got by them could never be
compared to those who listen to the programmes at homes, offices, places of business among others. The
reason given in relation to the above reason was that sometimes, the distractions on the roads such as blast
of other vehicles horns, other vehicles ahead or behind, pedestrians and other intervening variables are
usually not witnessed in the homes, offices, business places, and so on.
Notwithstanding, majority claimed that gratification sought are usually obtained with the car radio
while driving. Therefore, it would be concluded that the car radio meets the audiences’ needs on
gratification sought on political information programmes during the Nigerian 2011 general elections.
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Table 2: Responses on the extent to which respondents get gratification sought on Political
Information Programmes (PIPs) listened to on their radio set compared to other
programmes.
Options/Responses
Very Great No Little Don’t Invalid Frequency/
Groups Great Extent Extent Extent Know Total (%)
Extent
Public
Audiences
(Gov’t & 13 58 Nil 23 3 Nil 97(100%)
private
workers)
Private
Audience
(public 20 34 Nil 24 12 Nil 90(100%)
transporters &
bus. personnel)
33 92 47 15 187
Nil Nil
Total (17.6%) (49.2%) (0.00%) (25.1%) (8.0%) (0.00%) (100%)
To answer the second research question raised in this study, that is, Responses on the extent to
which respondents get gratification sought on Political Information Programmes (PIPs) listened to on their
radio set compared to other programmes. Analysis was based on these options – ‘Very Great Extent’, ‘Great
Extent’, ‘No Extent’, Little Extent, Don’t Know and Invalid. Data gathered show that ‘Great Extent’ scored
higher than other options with 92 respondents (that is, 49.2%). This is followed by ‘Little Extent’ with 47
respondents (that is, 25.1%) while ‘Very Great Extent’ had 33 respondents (that is, 17.6%). ‘Don’t Know’
option had 15 respondents (that is, 8.0%), no respondent ticked ‘No Extent’ option and had Nil ‘Invalid’
questionnaire. Thus, both scored 0%. The implication here is that Nigerian Drive-Time audiences get
gratification sought about political information programmes during the 2011 general elections to a great
extent compared to other programmes such as entertainment, and so on. More so, the addition of both
positive responses given to the question asked, that is, ‘Very Great Extent’ and ‘Great Extent’ are greater
than the negative responses, which are ‘Little Extent’ and ‘Don’t Know’ with 125 respondents and 62
respondents respectively. This result was complimented with the responses got through the interview
sessions conducted. All the interviewees agreed that they could categorically say that the gratification got is
to a great extent because of knowledge obtained about the subject matter. Some noted that it could never
have been to a very great extent because there are some other factors that impedes on their listening
processes such as paying attention to other road users (other drivers, pedestrians, police, street light, pot-
holes on the roads, animals, among several others). Quoting one of them, she said, “Even people at home
may likely not be able to say it is to a very great extent because they also have other things to pay attention
to while listening to whichever radio programme.” Notwithstanding, the study reveals that Drive-Times
audiences get to understand political (electoral processes) messages transmitted via the car radio while
driving that is gratification sought and obtained were to a great extent, during the Nigerian 2011 general
elections. Hence, radio (installed in the car, used at homes, offices, at cetera) serves its purpose on all and
sundry wherever they may be.
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Table 3: Responses on whether the messages on Political Information Programmes (PIPs) got
while driving impact on respondents’ decision-making concerning political issues.
Groups Options/Responses Frequency/ Total
Yes No Indifferent Invalid (%)
Public Audiences
(Gov’t & private
workers) 88 4 Nil 5 97
(100%)
Private Audience
(public transporters &
bus. personnel) 89 Nil Nil 1 90
(100%)
Total 177 4 Nil 6 187
(94.7%) (2.1%) (0.00%) (3.2%) (100%)
Research question three that is, whether the messages on Political Information Programmes got
while driving influenced on respondents’ decision-making concerning political issues, was answered using
the same criteria as above thus, respondents and interviewees responses. Data on Table 3, show that
respondents who agreed (by ticking ‘yes’) to the fact that their decision making about the electoral issues
were impacted by listening to political information programmes through the car radio during the 2011
general elections outnumbered other options. Thus, ‘yes’ had a howling number of 177 respondents (that is,
94.7%) as against ‘no’ with only 4 respondents (that is, 2.1%). It would be noted that no respondent was
indifferent about this, (that is, 0%) while 6 questionnaire (that is, 3.2%) were invalid because they were not
duly completed to give answer to the question raised. The result shows that messages listened to about
Political Information Programmes (PIPs) by Nigerian Drive-Time audiences during the 2011 general
elections on the radio set in their vehicle impacted on their decision making concerning political issues.
Some comments got from some questionnaire respondents revealed that political programmes, listened to
in their vehicles, made them conclude on the party and candidate they finally voted for.
Complimenting these responses with those got from the interviewees, they also pointed to the
same angle in a way as some respondents precisely 7(58.3%) out of 12(100%) interviewed agreed that
listening to political programmes on radio before the general elections while driving actually gave them
some level of understanding of the political parties, programmes and their candidates. However, 5(41.7%)
respondents revealed that they have actually made up their minds about the political party and candidate
they will vote for notwithstanding what information disseminated and got through the car radio. In addition,
an interviewee (a public transporter) revealed that discussions got from passengers after a political issue
interview programme on the 2011 general elections they all listened to through the car radio was one of the
reasons why he decided to vote at all.
Therefore, the answer to research question three was that the use of the car radio for listening to
messages on Political Information Programmes (PIPs) during the 2011 general elections affected the users
(Drive-Time audiences) decision-making concerning political issues. Another reason to conclude that car
radio positively served its information dissemination purpose on its users.
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Table 4 Responses on the extent to which the Political Information Programmes respondents
listened to influenced their decision-making concerning political issues.
Options/Responses Frequency/
Groups Very Great No Little Don’t Invalid Total (%)
Great Extent Extent Extent Know
Extent
Public Audiences
(Gov’t & private
workers) 30 62 Nil 5 Nil Nil 97
(100%)
Private Audience
(public
transporters & 27 60 Nil 2 1 Nil 90
bus. personnel)
(100%)
Total 57 122 7 1 187
Nil Nil
(30.5%) (65.2%) (0.00%) (3.7%) (0.6%) (0.00%) (100%)
As shown earlier (table 3), it would be noted that majority of the respondents say that the use of
the car radio for listening to Political Information Programmes during the Nigerian 2011 general elections
affected their (Drive-Time audiences) decision-making concerning political issues. Here, research question
four that is, whether the extent to which the Political Information Programmes respondents listened to
influenced their decision-making concerning political issues shall be answered.
Looking at the data on table 4, it is revealed that the effect of the political information programmes
listened to through the car radio was to a great extent. The breakdown goes thus: great extent had 122
respondents (that is, 65.2%), this was followed by ‘very great extent’ had 57 respondents (that is, 30.5%).
On the other hand, ‘little extent’ had just 7 respondents (that is, 3.7%) while only one respondent (that is,
0.6%) ticked ‘don’t know.’ The implication of this result clearly shows that the Political Information
Programmes (PIPs) listened to on the radio set in their vehicle affect their decision-making concerning
political issues to a large extent.
In support of this, interviewees’ responses were also used. In addition, the overall agreement was
that their decision-making concerning political issues during the 2011 general elections was affected to a
large extent. They noted that as drive-time audiences, most information got about the general elections
were actually got through the car radio while driving. Further, they added that sometimes, these
information were complemented by discussions with others in the vehicle. Some of the respondents
(especially the transporters) noted that they spend most of their days on the way driving and most times get
home very late. In addition, one of them noted that the beauty of the car radio was to keep them abreast of
happenings in the societies be it political and otherwise while on way just like others at home, offices, and
what have you.
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Based on the above, the answer to research question 4 is that the effect of the Political Information
Programmes (PIPs) listened to on their decision-making concerning political issues through the car radio
during the 2011 general elections was to a great extent.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
14. Conclusion
It is obvious that radio has significant role to play in our societies. This study attention was on the
use of the car radio by Drive-Time audiences. The advent of the gadget as noted earlier created a relief to
the people especially to the Drive-Time audiences (DTAs). In other words, it has helped to keep people
outside their homes, offices, business places among others, well informed about developments in and
outside their immediate environments.
Owing to this, can anyone imagine our world without the car radio? With it, the masses do not
have to wait until they get back to their homes, offices, places of business, before they can get informed,
instructed, educated, entertained, about happenings within and outside their immediate environment.
Looking at the use of the car radio by Drive-Time audiences in this study and their passengers
alike, it was discovered through respondents’ responses (through the in-depth interview conducted and
questionnaire administered) that the medium played significant roles during the Nigerian 2011 general
elections. It was submitted that people were informed, educated and entertained. In other words, radio (car
radio) got its users (Drive-Time audiences) informed about all the political and electoral processes as they
concern the general elections. Worthy of note, Nigerians have been yearning for a free, fair and credible
elections for decades. Through the programmes (that is, interviews, advert, discussions, news, et cetera)
gathered, packaged and disseminated by information senders – government and non-governmental
agencies, media personnel, politicians, among others, through the radio medium, most of the radio
audiences sampled for this study revealed that their attitudes, beliefs about elections in Nigeria changed.
Little wonder why people turned out for the elections, which was generally tagged even by foreign
monitors as free, fair and credible.
15. Recommendations
Drawing from this study, the researcher makes the following recommendations:
i. Government, non-governmental agencies, politicians, should endeavour to use more of the radio
medium for information dissemination before, during and even after elections because of its wide-
reach and accessibility advantage over other media.
ii. Drive-Time audiences should try as much as possible to keep their car radio always functional as
the service it offers in getting people outside their homes, offices, places of businesses, informed
are obvious.
iii. Manufacturers should also try to install into every vehicle a more powerful and multi-mode radio
type such as ‘world receiver’ with stronger signal strength that can pick other stations other than
the frequency modulation (FM) and amplified modulation (AM) modes. This will enable Drive-
Time audiences get enhanced access to information within and outside their social realities.
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