Motives for the use of social media for consumption of mainstream media contents among students of the university of Ilorin

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dc.contributor.authorMustapha, Maryam Lasisi
dc.contributor.authorUsman, Oyindamola Zainab
dc.contributor.authorAdegoke, Rukayat Ololade
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-21T09:08:52Z
dc.date.available2021-04-21T09:08:52Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.description.abstractThis study explores patterns of social media use among students in University of Ilorin and satisfaction they derive from using social media to consume mainstream media contents. Situated within the thesis of uses and gratifications theory, the study surveyed 382 students of the University of Ilorin, via convenience technique. Generally, participants agreed they use the social media to access news easily and know what is going on in the society. The study also revealed that user-friendliness, self-development, educational opportunities, convenience in communication and enhancement of self-development, wide exposure, global exchange and relaxation motivated their usage of social media. Findings suggest that the gratifications offered by mainstream media are being better met by the social media. In addition, accessibility, interactivity, mobility and multimediality emerged as specific gratifications obtained from the social media. It is thus recommended that the social media platform be unbundled in order to profile gratifications offered by individual medium with a view to ascertain how youth access mediated information in the contemporary time.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/4756
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Mass Communication, Cross River University of Technologyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1;1
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectmainstream mediaen_US
dc.subjectuses and gratificationsen_US
dc.titleMotives for the use of social media for consumption of mainstream media contents among students of the university of Ilorinen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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