BACKGROUND Information and Communication Technology (ICT) opens up new possibilities for introducing innovative teaching and learning methods to deliver education in different educational areas. Use of internet and social media has grown rapidly and is a key way in how nurses and nurse educator students find information. However, the evidence is still lacking how nurse educator students use soc...

Nigeria needs to embrace technology and pursue private media ownership in order to achieve a democratic media. In recent years, mass media in Africa has become a force with augmenting power that has influenced government and regimes. A democratization of the African media is reliant on media ownership and accessibility of information. Within Nigeria, there is a government monopoly of the med...

As anyone who owns a computer or even a smart phone understands, social media have the power to transform how people connect to and exchange information. And the influence is growing, as people of nearly every demographic – from teens to Baby Boomers, from academics to business professionals – take advantage of what social media have to offer. Social media accounted for 11% of all time spent on...

The uses and gratifications tradition posits individual needs for stimulation, for information, vary systematically. These needs may, in turn, affect what media sources, and other stimuli, various individuals access. This study used a survey design (N = 610) to examine the relationship between several key personality factors, media exposure and liking, and risk-taking behavior. Overall, it was ...