The Role of Social Media in Promoting Pornography and Indecency Among Nigerian Youth: A Case Study of Facebook
Chapter One
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are;
- The ascertain the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among youth
- To suggest a way of restricting them from these act
- To ascertain the impact of social media on youth behavior
- To ascertain the level of Facebook users involve in pornography and indecency
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Globalization and Social Media
Globalization is a process of economics, social, cultural and political activities crosses national boundaries. Information Technology acts as catalyst to globalization because it facilitates faster transfer of information and increased networking activity that amplify the effect of globalization. With globalization, the world has now become a global village where businesses and communication can take place across distance within seconds, these changes affects peopleboth at local and global level. Information and communication technology has a great impact on globalization because it linked the world into a global village as internet and social media changes the way people communicate. Discovery of this new idea exponentially grows. Thus, the technology has rapidly developed in the 20th century and has even grown faster in the 21th century. Distance disappears with new technologies. Since the advent information technology, people are provided with more access to information which has directly or indirectly improve our means of communication among people The internet has revolutionised the computer and communication world like nothing before. The invention of internet set the stage for unprecedented integration of capabilities. The internet is at once a world –wide broadcasting capacity, a mechanism for information dissemination and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regards for geographical location. The internet which was originally limited to scientific communication network developed for United States Government to support projects within the government and universities research is known by everyone today (Shola, 2004). Dominick (2011) stated that the United States Department of Defence developed a network in 1960 known as Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) with the aim of establishing means by which coordination and communication of military activities can be monitored as well as protecting the national security in the face of attack. At about the same time, the Local Areas Networks (LANs) was created. The LANs was a software that enabled computers to be linked and it also contained the internet protocol program. Many of the LANs were also connected to ARPANET, allowing the network to grow even more. (Kamat, 2012). From the early 1970‟s further innovations appeared, such as electronic mail applications, which expanded the possibilities for communication. Other networks paralleling ARPANET were also established such as the UK‟s JANET (Joint Academic Network) and the US‟s NSTNET (belonging to the American National Science Foundation) (Yar, 2006). By using common communication protocols, these networks could be connected together forming an inter-net, a network of network. As it grew during its first few years, ARPANET enabled researchers at a few dozen academic institutions to communicate with each other and with government agencies on topics of mutual interest. However, with the highly controversial Vietnam War in full swing, ARPANET‟s e-mail facility began to handle not only legitimate Research discussions but also heated debates about United States involvement in Southeast Asia (Morley ,2007). Dominick (2011) describes the internet as network of computers. It is a system that combines computers from all over the world into one big computer that you can operate from your computer, the connections among these networks can be ordinary telephones lines, microwave, fiber optic cables which is built specifically for this purpose.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among Nigerian youth
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information on the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among Nigerian youth. 200 students of University of Uyo was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among Nigerian youth
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among Nigerian youth
Summary
This study was on the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among Nigerian youth. Four objectives were raised which included: The ascertain the role of social media in promoting pornography and indecency among youth, to suggest the way of restricting them from these act, to ascertain the impact of social media on youth behavior, to ascertain the level of facebook users involve in pornography and indecency. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 students of university of Uyo. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up final year students, year four students, year three students and year two students was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
So far, this paper has highlighted the phenomenal nature of social media in Nigeria, especially among the youths. It also discussed the benefits which these social media sites offer, which included the enhancement of work efficiency, maintenance of social bond, source of information and so on. However, a greater attention was given to the moral implication of the abuse of these social media sites especially by the youths in the country. These included Sexual promiscuity, Internet crime, Indecent dressing and sexual harassment, Loss of sense of sacredness of human life and neighbourliness and Impatience and quick syndrome. Notwithstanding these moral effects of the phenomenon of social media in the country, one can no longer imagine a world with it. Therefore, all hands must be on desk especially that of parents and youths themselves, to salvage the social media-induced moral degeneration that is currently been witnessed in the country.
Recommendation
- Parents should guide against social media obsession among their children, by ensuring that they are not allowed much time to surf the internet or their phones especially at home.
- Parents should also consciously contribute to the building of a morally viable Nigerian society by instilling strong moral values into their children right from their homes which is the microcosm of the larger society. This will curb the level of moral decadence in the country.
- The youths should refrain from every act of immorality as this does not mean well for the future of the country, since it is said that youths are the leaders of tomorrow.
- 4. They should also avoid the obsession and abuse of the social media sites, but instead should moderately utilize the array of benefits which they offer.
- The traditional media like the television and radio broadcast as well as newspapers should through their routine activities discourage the abuse of social media in the country. This can be done through the organization of a discourse on the phenomenon of social media, or through advertisements and publication of write-ups of this nature.
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