Text Messages as Sources of Political News among Students in Zaria and Ilorin

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dc.contributor.authorAbdulrauf-Salau, Aishat
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-02T13:47:31Z
dc.date.available2018-08-02T13:47:31Z
dc.date.issued2013-02
dc.description.abstractThe popularity of mobile phones in Nigeria makes it an important medium for delivering information. More than 99 million people use the mobile phone, which is more than half the population of the country. Most of these people will increasingly receive information, news and other media content in form of text messages through their mobile phones. A significant number of these populations are youths majority whom are students. Unfortunately, most use this service for interpersonal communication alone rather than receive political news. Thus, against the backdrop of previous research findings that the application of text messages is increasing as a means of communication in Nigeria, this research assessed the use and acceptability of text messages as a channel of political news dissemination to students in Zaria and Ilorin. Thus, selected students were surveyed and a questionnaire was used to elicit responses from a sample of 291 from the two towns. Using the simple percentage for analysis, findings revealed that text messages as a means of disseminating political news to students was acceptable and will succeed if adopted by traditional mass media houses.en_US
dc.identifier.citation8. Abdulrauf-Salau, A. (2012). Text Messages as Sources of Political News among Students in Zaria and Ilorin. Zaria Journal of Communication (ZAJCOM). 2 (1); 59-81, Published by Department of Mass Communication, Ahamdu Bello University, Zariaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1063
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Mass Communication, Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2;1
dc.subjectGlobal System of Mobile Communication (GSM)en_US
dc.subjectPolitical Newsen_US
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectInformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs)en_US
dc.subjectTechnology Acceptance Model (Text Messages)en_US
dc.titleText Messages as Sources of Political News among Students in Zaria and Ilorinen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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