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Influence Of Second Chance (a Foreign Television Programme On The Social Behaviour Of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Students (awka)
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1.4 Research questions
This research effort will centre on the following research question.
1. Are the students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka aware of the foreign film „‟ Second Chance‟‟?
2. How often do the students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka watch “Second Chance�
3. To what extent do the students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka prefer watching “Second Chance†to local films?
4. What are the reasons why UNIZIK students watch Second Chance?
5. Does Second Chance film have any influence on the social lives of Nnamdi Azikiwe student?
1.5 Scope of the study
This
study is delimited to regular students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka. The researcher shall however study subset of student‟s population.
Hence, final year students of English and Literature department,
faculty of Art and final year students of Mass Communication department
and Sociology department, faculty of Social Sciences and final year
students of Educational Psychology and Educational Foundation, faculty
of Education, would be studied for the purpose of this study.
The
researcher‟s choice of the above departments derives from the
relationship between television foreign programmes contents and their
courses. They are therefore in a better position to provide
relevant/correct answers to the questions raised in the questionnaire.
The
researcher would therefore study SECOND CHANCE foreign television
programme transmitted every Monday and Friday by 10:pm by ABSTV. On the
selected students from these departments for the purpose of the study.
1.6 Significance of the study
This is significance in the following ways:
1.
It would help ABSTV Awka in particular and other television stations in
general to note if Nnamdi Azikiwe University students are aware of the
film“Second Chanceâ€.
2. It will enable such TV station to note how often Nnamdi Azikiwe University students Awka watch “Second Chanceâ€.
3. It will enable such TV station to check if UNIZIK students prefer “Second Chance to local films.
4. It will help the TV station to find out the reason UNIZIK student watch Second Chance.
5. It will help to determine if the film has any influence on their lives.
1.7 Limitation of study
The
study of Second Chance TV foreign programme could limit the
generalizability of this work. Moreover, the researcher experienced
initial apathy on the part of the students. It however took consistent
persuasion by the researcher to gain the respondents interest and
participation as evidence in the high return rate of distributed
questionnaire.
1.8 Assumptions
During the course of this study, the following assumptions will be made:
1. My respondents are undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Awka.
2. My respondents have access to “Second Chanceâ€; Foreign TV programme.
3. There has been an increasing influence of second chance on the social behaviour of these students.
1.9 Operational definition of terms
1. Influence: The effect of programme content on the audience.
2.
Programme: The arrangement and packaging of message content to an
identified mass audience group. Or list of programme which a particular
broadcast station (ABSTV) offers daily.
3. Television: This is an electronic medium through which pictorial message are passed or transmitted to the audience.
4. Second Chance: A foreign TV programme aired on ABSTV every Monday and Friday at 10: pm.
5. Social Behaviour: Connected with activities in which people meet eaqch other for pleasure.
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