THE INFLUENCE OF NEW MEDIA ON SOCIAL LIFE OF NIGERIAN YOUTH
Abstract
This research exercise is on the influence of new media in social life of Nigeria youth; in Godfrey Okoye University students. The research study adopted the media systems dependency theory as the theoretical framework for this study. The method used for this study was survey research method, with the population of 1640 students and a sample size of 311 students. The study revealed that over 68% of Nigerian youth log in on social media at least four to six times in a week and that over 80% of the youth believed that there is influence of social media on youths' use of traditional mass media in Nigeria and that over 48% of the respondents agreed that to some extent social media has enhanced youths interaction on social media. The study conclude that social media have provided an open arena where the.
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