Impact of media political campaign on voting choice of the electorate (a case study of 2003 presidential election, and study of owerri municiapal council in imo state.

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IMPACT OF MEDIA POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ON VOTING CHOICE OF THE ELECTORATE (A CASE STUDY OF 2003 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND STUDY OF OWERRI MUNICIAPAL COUNCIL IN IMO STATE.

CHAPTER ONE:

        INTRODUCTION

  • BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY          1 – 4
  • STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4 – 5
  • OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 5 – 6
  • SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6
  • RESEARCH QUEATIONS                                      7
  • RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS 7 – 8
  • LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 8
  • OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS 9
  • CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF TERMS 9 – 10

1.10    AGENDA SETTING THEORY

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

  • SOURCE OF LITERATURE                         17
  • THE REVIEW 18 – 26

NOTES                                                                                    27

 

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY

  • RESEARCH DESIGN                                                  28
  • POPULATION 28 – 29
  • SAMPLE SIZE 29 – 30
  • SAMPLE TECHNIQUE                                 30 – 31
  • INTRUMENT OF DATA COLLECTION 31 – 32
  • DISTRIBUTION OF INTRUMENTS OF DATA

COLLECTION                                                                         32

  • DATA ANALYSIS                                       32 – 33

NOTE                                                                                       34

 

CHAPTER FOUR

DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSIONS

  • DATA PRESENTATION         35 – 46
  • TEST OF HYPOTHESIS 46 – 48
  • FINDINGS/DISCUSSION 49 – 57

 

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY/CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDIES

  • SUMMARY/CONCLUSION 58 – 61
  • RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER STUDIES 62

APPENDIX                                                                              63

CHAPTER ONE

 

INTRODUCTION

  • BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In Nigeria, the mass media are saddled with the responsibility of informing, entertaining and educating the public. They also act as watching on the socio political machinery. These responsibilities out across all facets of life including polities and political decisions. It is often argued that the degreed of people’s participation in politics, depend on the information, which they get from the media.

Harold Laswell believes that “man has always needed something to watch over his environment and report to him on dangers, discoveries, opportunities, opinions, facts, decisions, changes and current trends. Something to entertain people on a broad scales something to broaden trade, commerce politics.

Beside, some experts as the informer and manipulator of mass opinion often describe the media, because they are the major sources of social and political information. What seems to give credence to the above claims is the prime places which governments, political time. They believe that the media can establish new attitudes or change existing forms of behavior, through there various programmed disseminated to the mass audience.

Again, the axiom “if the media says so, it must be true” and that the pen is mightier than the sword, typify the power of the media in the socio-political and economic existence of a nation. “To a large segment of the world’s population, the media portrays reality. Many people are not able to see that the media are not infallible”. No wonder, the third world countries, concerning Africa. They claim that such information are time-bombs, and if uncontrolled, may bring down the fragile political walls of the African countries, just recently, Kalu Ndukwe Odiba (1999) echoed in his seminar paper: “the mass media and opinion formation”, presented in a workshop organized by the academic staff union of polytechnics, bida chapter, that “the level pf political awareness, responsibility and participation in any given democratic society, depends largely on the public will, the media examine the political policies and programmed of the ruling class, educates the masses, motive, mobilizes and when necessary manipulates them into active participation or otherwise in the political programmed. Although he admitted that dissemination of information through the media does not equal acceptance by the masses, he emphasized that the media influence in modeling people’s political decision and behavior would remain unquestionable. It is believed that one of the underlying principles behind massive establishment of house, during political times is the indispensable foes of the media in selling political ideologies, education, propaganda and publicity.

In discussing the role of the Nigeria mess media during the 1979 general elections in Nigeria, Adoeoye Akinnsanya noted that.

“The press in both a product as well as a producer of mass opinion. He explained that the press is a product in the sense of their editorials, and a producer of opinion in the sense that they have been used to influence direct public opinions”.

Lucian Pye added that, “the mass media are amplifying factors in the society. They inform the people of the political behavior and misbehavior of these in power and thus, their power is amplified by making it possible for the people to determine the fate of the politicians in future elections” on, his arrivals back home in 1935, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (late), one of African’s most glamorous politicians and Journalists noted that: “There is no better means to arouse African people than by the power of pen of the tongue”. By power of the pen, Zik meant of the newspaper and magazines while the tongue represented radio and television.  It is against this background that many political parties and politicians commit large human and material resources on multiple media, political campaigns, at times, without proper analysis and understanding of the extent to which political campaigns through the mass media influences electoral decisions.

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