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Broadcast Media: Tools For Effective Rural Development
[A CASE STUDY OF OYUN VILLAGE ILORIN]
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1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The study will be a humble contribution towards the development of broadcast media communication in Oyun Village it will also serve as a source of encouragement to carry the broadcast media and other modern mass media to the community of Oyun Village, Ilorin East Local Government and Ilorin, Kwara State.
This study will guide other researches who want to know and understand the broadcast media as tools for effective rural development. This study will also encourage other cultural studies in African indigenous communication pattern.
It will also serves as literature on the roles being played by broadcast media, toward the development of a given community.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION
The following research questions will act as guide to the issue to be treated in this study.
1. What type of broadcast media are used for effective means of communication by Oyun Villagers?
2. How credible are those media and their information to Oyun People?
3. Is there any complimentary role played by the broadcasting media with respect to the traditional means of communication in Oyun Village?
4. Do people of Oyun village refer to broadcast media as sources of acquiring information more than any other medium of communication?
5. Do these media serve the information needs of the people via development programme?
6. Can the broadcast media, television and radio endurance rural based communication more then the traditional means of communication?
7. What type of programmes are enjoyed most by or most satisfy the people of Oyun village?
1.6 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS FORMED
HA – The broadcast media is an important agent of rural development
HO – The broadcast media is not an important agent of rural development.
HA – Broadcast media affect the rural dweller more positively then negatively.
HA – Broadcast media are more credible than the traditional means of communication in rural area.
H0 – Broadcast media are not more credible than the traditional means of communication in rural area.
HA – Radio is used more than any other category media of mass in Oyun village.
HO – Radio is not used more than any other category of media in Oyun village.
HA – A reasonable period of time are devoted to programme that are meant for rural dwellers.
HO – No period of time devoted to programme to the rural dweller.
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY/DELIMINATION
The study gives a brief background on the concept of broadcasting as stated in the introductory page of this research work. The study also identifies the broadcast medium art facts mostly used by the people of the community in the fast and present day.
The usefulness and limitation of these artifacts in serving the communication in the entire community is a result of the short period of time??
This study might also be limited to information collection from population figure of community under study, low literacy rate, time constraint are all part of the limitation.
Above all, the limitation of the case study is being influenced by the proximity of the case study to the researcher as well as transportation and financial constraint which make it necessary to choose a near by community based on geographical contiguity to the researcher.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe study is a critical examination of the role of broadcast media as tools for effective rural development. The rural means of communication is still the epitome for rural development. These broadcast medium of communication includes the following: radio, television and some modern means of communication such as the internet etc.However, both primary and secondary data will be used in gathering information for the study. The secondary data will come as a review of documented materials, ... Continue reading---
