Mass Communication ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/96 2026-04-22T00:08:25Z 2026-04-22T00:08:25Z Ojemola, Adeyoola Olawunmi, 'Bisi ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/958 2023-03-31T12:20:04Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Influence of geographical location of newspapers in media reportage of herdsmen-farmers clashes in Nigeria: A comparative study of The Nation and Daily Trust newspapers Authors: Ojemola, Adeyoola; Olawunmi, 'Bisi Abstract: Herdsmen – farmers’ crisis is one of the major ongoing conflict situations in Nigeria. The media’s role in conflict situations have been subject of several studies. This paper looks at the factor of geographical location of media establishment and its effect in reporting conflict situations with the herdsmen – farmers’ clashes as focus of study. The Agenda-setting theory underpins the study while purposive sampling technique is used to select two national newspapers based on their geographical location –The Daily Trust, based in the North (Abuja city) and The Nation, located in the South (Lagos city) with 120 editions of each newspaper used for content analysis to generate relevant data. Data were analyzed with frequency count and simple percentages. Findings of the study show acorrelation between the geographical location of the newspapers and the leanings in their reportage of the herdsmen- farmers’ conflict – The Daily Trust’s reportage being pro the herdsmen, who are northerners while The Nation’snews stories have slants supportive of farmers mainly in the South and who bear the brunt of herdsmen rampage, a positioning seen as being a major contributor to the escalating situation. The paper recommends that stakeholder groups in the media should be more proactive in ensuring adherence to fairness and accuracy doctrine in news reportage with a view to enhancing media credibility, believability and consequent survival and profitability.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Ojemola, Adeyoola Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/950 2023-03-31T11:06:20Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Nigeria’s Memes as Anecdote of Youthful Participation in 2019-2020 Nigeria’s Critical Events. Authors: Ojemola, Adeyoola; Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi Abstract: Hinged on the stimulus-response theory of the mass media and the theory of public sphere, the researchers sought to identify internet memes and youth participation in Nigeria‟s critical events between 2019 and 2020 as well as highlight the humorous uses of these memes by youth during the critical events. As a qualitative discourse content analysis, twelve memes purposively and conveniently sampled reveals youth‟s active participation in Nigeria‟s events as well as the concealed realities in humorous texts and images. The researcher among others recommended that the Nigerian government pay attention to youth‟s messages concealed in memes.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Ojemola, Adeyoola Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi Ogundoyin, Olayinka Adeniji, Oluwatomi George, Chisom ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/949 2023-03-31T10:58:52Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Media contributions to ‘sex for grades’ discourse: A study of the movie Citation and the tertiary education sector in Osun State, Nigeria Authors: Ojemola, Adeyoola; Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi; Ogundoyin, Olayinka; Adeniji, Oluwatomi; George, Chisom Abstract: The Nigerian media has been lending a voice to all stakeholders in the society through its watchdog function and has stood the objective ground of tackling vices affecting the state of the public while endorsing those that uplift the nation. Nigerian legacy media coupled with the film industry have consistently mirrored the realities of the variations to the subject of ‘sex for grades’ in female student- male lecturer relationship. Through discourse and statistical analyses methods, the movie Citation, was examined as a medium contributing to curtailing the menace of ‘sex for grades’ in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The theoretical framework was social power relations theory and data was gathered through a focus group discussion and questionnaire to survey the implications of this film in a tertiary institution in Osun state. Findings reveal that just like the legacy media, the film industry is equally imparting an extra voice to expatiate on what ‘sex for grades’ is, how it comes to play, variances to its exhibit, as well as steps to take to avoid it. Approving the film Citation, the conclusion draws that the medium of film can be further explored in combating the problem of ‘sex for grades’ in the Nigerian education sector.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Ojemola, Adeyoola Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/943 2023-03-30T07:10:14Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Nigeria’s Memes as Anecdote of Youthful Participation in 2019-2020 Nigeria’s Critical Events Authors: Ojemola, Adeyoola; Ayo-Obiremi, IfeKristi Abstract: Hinged on the stimulus-response theory of the mass media and the theory of public sphere, the researchers sought to identify internet memes and youth participation in Nigeria‟s critical events between 2019 and 2020 as well as highlight the humorous uses of these memes by youth during the critical events. As a qualitative discourse content analysis, twelve memes purposively and conveniently sampled reveals youth‟s active participation in Nigeria‟s events as well as the concealed realities in humorous texts and images. The researcher among others recommended that the Nigerian government pay attention to youth‟s messages concealed in memes.

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