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Journal of Media and Communication Studies
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This is an Open Access Journal

Open Access journal
ISSN (Print) 2141-2545
Published by Academic Journals

[33 journals]

Social media engagement and democracy: Understanding the impact of social
media on youth civic engagement in Tanzania
- Abstract: This study examined how the use of social media among youth influences their offline civic participation outside the election period in Tanzania. Unlike previous studies, this study used multidimensional aspects of civic participation. Civic participation was studied using the concurrent qualitative dominant mixed-methods approach. The study conducted four focus group discussions (FGD) with ...
  PubDate: Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +010
Looking for low-key: Noir and Neo-Noir from a cinematographic perspective
- Abstract: Film Noir has always been an elusive category, determined by vague definitions. Even scholarly work has its focus on thematic connections, and standards of tone and mood and periodization of both classical noir and neo-noir has always been problematic. Kathrina Glitre and Patrick Keating have championed an approach that categorizes noir as a visual category, determined by changing technical ...
  PubDate: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +010
Interventions and messaging in behaviour change communication response to
COVID-19: A qualitative analysis of covid campaign in Kenya coastal
counties
- Abstract: Effectiveness and compliance to intervention measures that mitigate the spread of COVID-19 has heavily relied on awareness and willingness of the public to adhere to directives. In this study, Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) interventions in response to COVID-19 are analyzed with the aim of identifying opportunities and gaps that can inform ongoing and future efforts. The study focuses ...
  PubDate: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +010
Analysis of newspaper coverage of world cancer day: A study of select
newspapers in Nigeria
- Abstract: The rate at which cancer claims the lives of people around the world has been a matter of global concerns. In keeping with the desire to fight cancer and save the world, the United Nations and Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) established world cancer day aimed to unite the global community on the fight against cancer. As a global fight and awareness creation for preventive measu...
  PubDate: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +010
Personality traits, personal motivations, and online news and social media
commenting
- Abstract: Among the most popular online platforms for commenting following a news story are Facebook, Twitter and on the news website itself. Using personality characteristics, including from the Big-Five schema (extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and the Dark Tetrad frame (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and sadism), as well as personal m...
  PubDate: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +010
Voicing participation in large-scale infrastructural projects: A
contextualization of participatory communication in Lamu Port, Kenya
- Abstract: This study argues that, although public participation is a mechanism of connection and collective struggle, its practice lacks strong operational foundation. A re-conceptualization of participation as a planning and social reform tool is expounded through examination of how project affected people in the Kenya Lamu Port project, voiced their participation concerns. Lamu Port is a key infrast...
  PubDate: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +010
Social support and positivity: Analyzing user-generated comments on the
Instagram pages of two Brazilian cancer hospitals
- Abstract: Online social media platforms are an important tool for individuals who wish to exchange ideas, stories, feelings, information. Hospitals and public health organizations can use social media platforms, including Instagram, to engage, interact or communicate with patients, family members and anyone interested in health information or new discoveries. The purpose of this study is to understand...
  PubDate: Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +010
Whose stream is this anyway' Exploring layers of viewer-integration in
online participatory videos
- Abstract: Within this paper, we explore variants of user-integrating (live) videos as examples of collaborative practices in social media. We propose an empirically informed typology of layers of user-integration in terms of: (A) directness / bodiliness of interaction, (B) Unfinishedness in the content at hand and (C) Productive tensions through streamer-audience-interactions. As an example of spontan...
  PubDate: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +010
The transformation of media economy paradigm based on time value and
decentralization
- Abstract: As an important underlying structure of the Internet and economy, the media economics is undergoing structural changes. It is in urgent need of a more original and forward-looking academic vision and theoretical framework to refine its basic problems to study and solve more challenging practical problems in a larger picture. First, this study critically analyzes the current serious problems ...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +010
Patronage of farm radio as an agricultural knowledge source for farmers:
Experiences from Ghana
- Abstract: Numerous studies have been conducted on farm radio programmes but there is limited information on farmers level of patronage, utilisation and satisfaction with the information obtained. This study aimed to fill this gap. The research was carried out in the Bosome Freho District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana with 400 farmers selected using the multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analys...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +010