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Influence Of Information And Communication Technologies(icts) On News Gathering
[A CASE STUDY OF PRACTICING JOURNALISTS IN OWERRI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL]
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1.4 Research Questions
1. Do practicing journalists in Owerri aware of ICTs?
2. How many practicing journalists in Owerri have formal training on the use of ICTs?
3. Does the use of ICTs have positive impact on news and information reportage?
4. Do practicing journalists in Owerri have access to ICTs?
1.5 Research Hypotheses
H0: A good number of Owerri based practicing journalists are not aware of ICT.
H1: A good number of Owerri based practicing journalists are aware of ICT.
H0: A good number of Owerri based practicing Journalists do not have access to ICT.
H2: A good number of Owerri based practicing journalists have access to ICT.
H0: ICT usage does not have positive impact on news and information reportage.
H3: ICT usage do have positive impact on news and information reportage.
1.6 Scope and Limitation of Study
The
scope of the study is Owerri, the capital city of Imo state. All
journalists who practice in Owerri are represented in this study. These
journalist practice in Owerri and where purpose chosen to represent the
media practitioners in the state.
The study encountered various
militating factors among which is lack of adequate finance. They serve
economic situation of the country that reflect in the low par capital
income and high expenditures limits availability of financial
resources. However the researcher employed judicious and careful
prioritizing his need and the research need.
Again, the selected
respondent were hard to come by due to their busy programme as schedule
culminating from the nature of the job of media practitioners. This
therefore hindered the administration and retrieval of questionnaire of
the respondents’ contacts to various media industries in Owerri (NTA,
Orient TV, IBC, statesman, newspaper etc.) where the respondents work
were continuously met and the respondents cooperate as sort. Time posed
as serious impediments to the study as the research has other academic
and otherwise interests to cover, but proper time allocation was applied
by the researcher for better task accomplishment.
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