the study was carried out in anambra state, nigeria. questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of one hundred and eight (108) small-scale farmers. percentage, mean score, standard deviation and factor analysis were used for data analysis. the duration of the study was june 2009 and march, 2010. results of the study indicated that the major constraints to effective use of icts by smal...

The rise of the TikTok social network has caused media to confront younger generation. platform, which hosts dances, challenges, and funny short videos, unique features that force a reinvention networking strategies. Television become expanded new platforms, while young people are abandoning consumption traditional television. In this study, we explore—for first time—the presence television cha...

A computational, social network-based approach to story understanding is proposed and implemented in the Conversation Map system. Analyses of audiences’ online discussions following the airing of two episodes of a wellknown television show are presented.

This research seeks to analyze the dynamics behind the production of AFP-advertiser-funded programming by bringing together published literature and industry perspectives of different players in the television and advertising market. The purpose of the research is to create an understanding of the dynamics of advertiser-funded programming as a new business and production model for television ad...

television is being seen and heard increasingly in many homes. its effects on health of youth and pollution of the mind are of considerable interest, research and concern. the review of the two most popular daily newspapers of iran revealed alarming examples of violence in children imitating the aggressive acts of the television scene. since children are more vulnerable than adults, parents sho...

It is a little-known fact that the Italian Communist Party invested vast financial resources in establishment of network local television stations. By 1980, there were as many twenty these This article examines how PCI's ‘free television’ experiment developed within context private broadcasting Italy, and why it was eventually abandoned. A discussion some programmes produced by communist statio...

Broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. Africa has a switchover date of June, 2017. For Nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. The awareness among urban dwelle...

The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considerable analytical challenge. In the viewers’ minds the co-habitation of these two semiotic channels triggers a complex network of inferential processes, based on expectations of coherence and relevance, with which they make sense of the representation of the world offered in the news. Through the analy...