ABSTRACT
The need for this study was find out “The Apathetic Behaviour of Nigerian Journalists to Science and Technological Reporting”. This work was motivated by the felt need to know whether they have indifferent or apathetic behaviour to science reporting beat, whether the journalists possess adequate educational and professional skill for effective science and technological reporting and whether the journalists prefer other beats such as politics, crime, economy, sports and others to science reporting.
The study equally investigated whether the journalists believe that their readers, viewers, and listeners have low interest in science and technology stories.
This study focused on practicing journalists in South-Eastern Nigeria. Survey research method was used with the sample of the study selected through the simple random sampling method. Questionnaire (questions), were designed and administered to the working journalists in Enugu state, Abia state, Anambra state and Imo state to generate data for the study. After careful collection, collation and analysis of the data collected, the four hypothesis stated in the study were empirically validated.
In addition, the result to the study equally revealed that science reporting is generally unpopular among the Nigerian Journalists, and that media managers have not done much to encourage science reporting in their respective media.
Data for the study was analyzed with the statistical instrument of chi-square and percentages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
APPROVAL PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLE
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY]
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.6 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
1.7 ASSUMPTIONS OF THE STUDY
1.8 LIMITATION / SCOPE OF THE STUDY
1.9 DEFINITION OF VARIABLES – CONCEPTUAL OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 DEFINITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2.3 HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2.4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
2.5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WRITING IN Nigeria
2.6 SUMMARY OF REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
3.1 RESEARCH METHOD
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.3 DATA COLLECTION
3.4 DATA ANALYSIS
3.5 RESEARCH SAMPLE
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS
4.1 DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS
4.2 INTERPRETATION OF DATA
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY
5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE
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