Issues in Nigerian Mass Media
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE
CODE: MAC 314
COURSE TITLE:
ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA
MAC 314
ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA
Introduction
The title of this course is: Issues in Nigerian Mass Media. The code is MAC 314. It is designed for undergraduate students of Mass Communication. The course provides the students with basic knowledge of the history, ethical, legal, professional, socio-cultural and technological issues affecting mass media industry in Nigeria. It is hoped that at the end of the tutorials in the course, students will be sufficiently exposed to various socio-cultural, ethical, legal, technological and professional issues impacting on the existence and operation of mass media in Nigeria. Precisely, the students who have gone through this course would be expected to have in-depth understanding of these issues and how they affect the mass media practitioners’ perceptions and dispositions to their professional practice using Nigerian media landscape as basis of analysis.
Students would also be expected to acquaint themselves with mainstream literature on evolving issues in Nigeria mass media landscape and development; the major discussion that embed the literature and be able to decipher the basic and knotty issues, concepts and or phenomena that affected or still affect mass media as an organic industry in Nigeria.
This course guide therefore, offers you with informative insights into the course contents. It also provides you with a list of relevant materials you will need to gain adequate familiarity with and in-depth understanding of the subject matter. The course design is structured in such a way that would enable you gain far reaching insight into the course. It will engage you into productive thinking through the underlying issues and developments in the Nigerian mass media industry.
Study Units
MAC314 which is titled Issues in Mass Media in Nigeria is a 300
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE
CODE: MAC 314
COURSE TITLE:
ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA
MAC 314
ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA
Introduction
The title of this course is: Issues in Nigerian Mass Media. The code is MAC 314. It is designed for undergraduate students of Mass Communication. The course provides the students with basic knowledge of the history, ethical, legal, professional, socio-cultural and technological issues affecting mass media industry in Nigeria. It is hoped that at the end of the tutorials in the course, students will be sufficiently exposed to various socio-cultural, ethical, legal, technological and professional issues impacting on the existence and operation of mass media in Nigeria. Precisely, the students who have gone through this course would be expected to have in-depth understanding of these issues and how they affect the mass media practitioners’ perceptions and dispositions to their professional practice using Nigerian media landscape as basis of analysis.
Students would also be expected to acquaint themselves with mainstream literature on evolving issues in Nigeria mass media landscape and development; the major discussion that embed the literature and be able to decipher the basic and knotty issues, concepts and or phenomena that affected or still affect mass media as an organic industry in Nigeria.
This course guide therefore, offers you with informative insights into the course contents. It also provides you with a list of relevant materials you will need to gain adequate familiarity with and in-depth understanding of the subject matter. The course design is structured in such a way that would enable you gain far reaching insight into the course. It will engage you into productive thinking through the underlying issues and developments in the Nigerian mass media industry.
Study Units
MAC314 which is titled Issues in Mass Media in Nigeria is a 300
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