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The Impact Of Social Media On National Security: Nigeria’s Perspective
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1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
An
important limitation to the study was finance and limited time frame.
The lack of crucial data or the presence of falsified data by government
agencies and many publications were major limitations.
However, in
spite of all these Limitations efforts were made to ensure the quality
of this research in the use of sources such as Academic Journals,
Newspapers, Blogs, Posters and other materials. 1.8 Definition of
Terms
The following are key terms used in the research work:
National
Security: National security according to Macmillan Dictionary (2010)
is the protection or the safety of a country’s secrets and its citizens.
National security is a prerequisite for progress and orderliness in any
society and this is because the protection of lives and property is
paramount in the life of man. Many things are embedded in national
security and it includes economic security, energy security,
environmental security and so forth. However, for the purpose of this
paper, national security means the protection of a nation’s citizens to
ensure political, economic, and social order so as to enable the
nation-state prosper along with other nations in order to attain
national pride and fulfillment among the comity of nations.
Communication:
Communication is the act of imparting of information by speaking,
writing or using some other medium. It is a means of sending or
receiving information such as telephone lines or computers. For this
study, communication can be defined the way of transferring information
either through spoken or verbal (face-to-face, telephone, radio or other
media) and written communication (letters, e-mails, books, magazine,
internets)
Media: They technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication.
Social
Media: They are forms of electronic communication which facilitate
interactive base on certain interests. Social media include web and
mobile technology. Social Media can also be defined as a group of
internet based application that allows the creation and exchange of user
generated content.
Social Networking: The use of internet to make
information about yourself available to other people especially people
you share an interest with to send messages to them.
Social
Networking Sites: A website where people put information about them and
can send to others such as Blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Podcast,
2go, flicker.
1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
The study is organized into five (5) chapters:
Chapter
one is the introduction of the study and comprises of with background
of the study, statement of the problem, research objectives, research
questions, significance of the study, scope and limitations of the
study, definition of terms and organization of the study.
The chapter
two is the literature review and theoretical framework with special
focus on the concept of communication, concept of mass media, concept of
social media, concept of national security, overview of the security
challenges in Nigeria, roles of mass media in national development,
relationship between media and national security and theoretical
framework
Chapter three discusses the research methodology which
includes research design, population of the study, sample size, sampling
technique, method of data collection and method of data analysis.
Chapter
four dwells on data presentation, analysis and interpretation, followed
by testing of hypothesis and discussion of findings.
Chapter five is basically on the summary of the study, conclusions and recommendations.
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