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The Importance Of Social Media Among Nigerian Youths
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1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Traditional mass media plays more signified roles in the society before the invent of social media. It generates motivational previews of events and its attractiveness to the consumer, so as to stipulate the theme of the story effectively. The use of television, newspaper, magazines and other mass media terms, to help the public in notifying the intent of the government, public and societal opinion in the country.
However, it pictures real cultural. Value to het audience and analyze3 it to the viewer’s perspective in the society. Traditional mass media generates possible dilution of facts and fictions among the government and their subordinates. Also it presents good proximity to informative materials to the user that is the audiences have access to the media without technical contributions, such as community orientation and collectivism.
Obviously, the traditional mass media harness the government policies through democratic processes. Also they create ideology and uniqueness in the conveying news worthy events. The political parties contribute to the society through the mass media also they visualize their activities with the modest of the mass media.
In additional mass media gives room for locally made products advertisement through their medium such as news papers, magazines, radio, and television without any governmental interference. The public is being granted privilege to display their talents and opinion in the vacuum of the mass media within the outreach.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study’s intent is to clarify the use of social media among the youths of Nigeria in references to the modest of it relevance and the effect of it on the traditional mass media.
However, it focuses specifically on the usage habits of the youths of Nigeria towards social media thus the investigation suggests more moderate effects of the media in generating information form a network of relations and influences and with the individual’s interpretations and evaluation of the information provided within the globes.
In this regard, only the Nigerian youths and students shall be studies leaving the previous access or other members of the society as time constraint may not permit much intensive and comprehensive study on those left out. Also this study will be restricted to Kwara State youth majority the student of tertiary institutions and training centres.
1.5 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
As it is recognized that there is no life without communication, millions of people who exist, long for all societal information even at times grass root. Mostly one million, seven hundred and fourteen Nigerians are on social network pages, with large numbers of them being youth.
However, there is no comprehensive knowledge of their activities as well as how these forms of media can impact on various aspects of life. The advent of social media reduces the conversant relationship between the mass media and the youths of Nigeria. The study specifically focuses on the usage habits of young Nigerians and how social media has affected their communication and socialization habits social media which develops the level of mass media outreach across the country. It automations deals directly with the users and their sources of raping information’s without any influence of the mass media. It has thus increased the speed of its effort drastically. The future of communication has been predicted to depend to a great degree on electronic modes with the tags! Technological development. Academics, business men of social media of new media generally and abandon the initial modes of tapping, revealing, and encouraging suitable information.
Obviously, the advent of social media attracts many users which limits the effort of the mass media oh the use of their appliances in conveying their information and aborted their ways of notification in the country. It reduces the commitment of the audience to the mass media offers social media gives no rooms for community orientation and convictism among the youths of Nigeria since it audient. Most youths spinal much of their time relative activities on social networks which they derive pleasure in. also limited time is being committed to social networks materials than initiative explorers. This has dervish the interest of the public in the arbitrary things of the country and derived their attention to the foreign developmental efforts.
Thus the use of social media has restricted the sources of generating inane to the mass media. Many years of social media finds it easy to sort from the internet rather than purchasing a print copy of listen to the broadcast stations. The mass media visualized activities are being restrained due to commercial activities that generates income for mass media such as advertisement, public awareness which is now been transferred to the social media services.
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