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Item ANALYSIS OF THE NATION AND DAILY TRUST NEWSPAPERS COVERAGE OF POLITICAL DEFECTIONS IN NIGERIA(Journal of Global Business and Social Entrepreneurship (GBSE), 2017) Udende, Patrick; Adisa, Rasaq; Mahamood, , Ahmad Fahmi; Abubakar, I.Y.; Adegoke, R. O; Abdullah, Shuhairimi; Ahmad, Norizah; Bajuri, Maskor; Hussin, NoorsalwaniWe carried out a study on selected newspapers coverage of political defections in Nigeria in 2014. The purpose of the study was to analyze how selected Nigerian newspapers frame stories on political defections. Using framing theory, we purposively selected two newspapers; Daily Trust and The Nation. We adopted qualitative content analysis as a method for the study. We descriptively analyzed stories in terms of the pattern of frames and tone (positive, negative or neutral). Findings show writers’ use of different frames in their stories and this vary and the pattern of frames show elements of bias based on political affiliation. The study concluded that there is apparent bias in most of the defection stories reported in The Nation while those carried in Daily Trust are neutral. On the strength of findings, the study recommended among other things that writers should avoid obvious framing of stories which reflect bias on the basis of their political inclinations for the sake of an informed citizenry.Item Impact of Smartphones on News Gathering and Reporting by Journalists in Kwara State(Social & Digital Media Discourse, 2021) Abubakar, I.Y.; Adekeye, Jesutoba Emmanuel; Udende, Patrick; Adisa, Rasaq Mohammed; Omoloso, A.I.; Kareem, Rhoda AreolaThe advent of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) brought new innovations to the media industry worldwide. The development of the ICT revolutinalised the practice of journalism with the introduction of new tools, which have not only enhanced the outputs of professional journalists but also altered the practices of journalism all over the world. The role of the ICT, especially smartphones and the Internet, cannot be overemphasised as they serve pivotal functions in changing and altering the practices of journalism. This study examined the impact of smartphones on news gathering and reporting among journalists in Kwara State, using survey questionnaire as research tool. Census sampling method was employed to seek information from 148 registered working journalists in Kwara State of Nigeria. The results showed that smartphone was popularly being used by majority of journalists in Kwara State for their professional activities and that the device has greatly enhanced their performances. The study recommended that media houses should provide journalists with multifunctional smartphones and facilitate adequate training on the optimum usage of such new gadgets for improved performances.Item Measuring Aspiring Professionalism Quotient among University of Ilorin Public Relations Students(Public Relations Journal, 2017) Udende, Patrick; Abdulbaqi, Saudat S.; Abubakar, I.Y.The study examines the aspiring quotient professionalism among students, who specialise in public relations at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria during the 2016/2017 academic session. Method of the study is survey conducted on all the 42 out of the 44 students that constitute the study population. Findings show that most respondents regularly do every task they are assigned to the best of their ability, treat people with respect and often do what is morally and ethically right. The study concludes that students studying public relations generally possess the basic credentials required for professionalism. This is in spite of the few that lack the qualities required of a potential public relations practitioner evidenced in their lack of interest to become public relations practitioners after their training. Based on findings, the study recommends among other things that those with positive disposition to work, and are courteous as well as relentless in keeping abreast with current trends in public relations should sustain the culture. It also recommends that those who rarely do assigned tasks or fail to do what is right from a moral and ethical perspective should eschew from such conduct as such misdemeanours have no place in public relations practice.Item SOCIAL MEDIA AND COVID-19 CONSPIRACY THEORIES’ AMPLIFICATION OF MISLEADING INFORMATION B(Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Limited, 2022) Udende, Patrick; Akpede, Kaior Samuel; Omoloso, A.I.; Abubakar, I.Y.The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has attracted academic discourse in different respects. These studies range from role of social media in information dissemination to effects of COVID 19 outbreak on society. Despite attempts made to investigate the emerging conspiracy theories in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, rarely does literature underscores how social media serve as platform to amplify COVID-19-related conspiracy theories that find social media as platform to viralise the misleading information embedded in the theories. Premised on this, this study was carried out to articulate the place of the conspiracy theories as misleading information pertaining to COVID-19 pandemic on social media platforms. Anchored on public sphere theory, the study argues that misleading information on social media as encapsulated in the theories have negative consequences including non-adherence to scientific measures to address the menace of COVID 19, stereotype of groups or countries, and erosion of trust and confidence in governments and other agencies, and spiraling infections and deaths mainly due to media illiteracy. The study recommends among other things the need for people to discountenance misleading information through media literacy as well as strictly adhere to non-pharmaceutical and scientific measures meant to reduce the rate of infections and deaths worldwide. It also recommends that developers of social media platforms should strengthen effort in deploying fact-checkers to dispel misleading information and make available and easily visible authoritative COVID-19- related content.