» AN EVALUATION OF DECORATED TRADITIONALCLOTHUSEDINTIVCULTURALACTIVITIESINBENUESTATE,NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The thematic preoccupation of this chapter is an evaluation of the Tiv Traditional Decorated Cloth used in cultural activities …Continue Reading »
» THEATRE AS A SOCIAL RE ORIENTATION TOOL CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The term "theatre" refers to a performance intended to entertain, inform, educate, or communicate. The performance might take place in a theatre, on the street, or in a market square. "As much as theatre …Continue Reading »
» INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Theatre arose as a performance of ritual activities that did not require initiation on the part of the spectator. This similarity of early theatre to ritual is negatively attested by Aristotle, who in his Poetics defined theatre in contrast to the performances of…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Dance is a means of entertainment and communication. It is referred to as a type of art or series of steps and movements that match the speed and rhythm of music. It may be regarded as an expression of human feelings, as a spectacle, an art form…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The origin of Makeup can be traced to a Greek actor named THESPIS. After this, during the medieval time, European theatre then introduced face paint makeup for the first time. The principles of designing and the application of makeup to Nollywoo…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Theatre arts as a discipline has been taught over the years in higher institution as an art ,but little or no attention has been given to the legal perspective of the discipline. Law relates to every discipline including theatre arts. Law is a b…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study This work attempts to throw more light on costuming an absurd play using Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a case study and would also research on the concept of absurdism and proponents of the ideology in attempt to throw more light on …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study A Script is a document that outlines every aural, visual, behavioural and lingual element required to tell a story. The script, or screenplay, outlines all the elements (audio, visual, behaviour and dialogue) that are required to tell a story th…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.1Introduction Radio is regarded as the blind man's medium. However, it has the ability to stimulate the mind. It was invented by a great Italian electrical engineer, Guglielmo Marconi in 1895 (Brittnre, 1989) and from its first tentative experiments, it has expanded into an almost univ…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Theatre is a collaborative form of art that uses live performance of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performer may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Theatre arts is a broad platform, and all art forms have something to communicate. Art as a form of communication is dynamic because it is derived from culture and a particular cultural background. Dance is a form of art, hence, it is …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nigerian movies, popularly referred to as Nollywood movies, produced by the Nigerian film industry uses formats such as video cassette, video compact disc (VCD), and more recently the digital video disc (DVD), in producing their movies.…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The media can be used as an instrument to build as well as to destroy the human society. This study has tried to establish the inherent nature of conflict and crises in human society as well as the significant role of media and communication in forming and shaping individual or group per…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study ―Conflict sensitive Reporting in Northern Nigeria: A study of Select Newspaper Reportage‖ was carried out to discover how some newspapers report conflict in Northern Nigeria. The study examined how the nature of reporting conflict can either enhance or diminish the conf…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study examines the effectiveness of communication strategies deployed by the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in fighting malaria in Nigeria. Over the years, these strategies have been more diffusion based than participatory. Available documents indicate that the rate of…Continue Reading »
» Abstract For more than a decade now, one of the centerpieces of socio economic development, and foreign aid has been the effort to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs have been an influential framework for global development cooperation, not only in shaping the international …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The study appraises the Electronic Wallet communication platform under the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS). The revolution in the media has greatly altered communication in all spheres of life including agriculture. The integration of the ICTs to some extent has brought possible…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT It is a widely accepted notion that Nollywood movies contain negative content such as drug addiction, armed robbery, sexual immorality, women and child abuse amongst others, which in effect elicit negative reaction from its viewers. These negative reactions often result in negative societal…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study ―Communication and Good Governance in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State‖ was carried out to examine the context of communication in governance of Ishielu Local Government area of Ebonyi state. The objectives are to validate the impact of communication on govern…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the study In an article on sustainability and technology transfer, Richard Wilk (1995), an American anthropologist, mentioned a file folder of materials that he had accumulated over several years. The file contai…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study is on Participatory Communication and Women Empowerment: A Critical study of life Rehabilitation Foundation for Womanhood inTungaCommunityMinna Niger State. The aim of the study is to appraise the process and nature of communication used by the foundation to facilitate part…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The study examined testimonial advertising and consumer behaviour of Chief Zebrudaya advert as a frame for analysis. Documentary methods of data collection as well as self administered structured questionnaire were used to elicit information from the respondents. From the descriptive sta…Continue Reading »
» Abstract The use of the Internet in education is gradually gaining prominence in our higher educational institutions. As students are active users of the Internet, it is believed that they utilize the Internet for their academic pursuit. This study explores and investigates the Influence of the Inte…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The media plays a very powerful and influential role in the lives of youths anywhere in the world and it is sometimes referred to as the ‗third parent‘. Over sixty years of study has provided evidence that exposure to violent media leads to an increase in violence and aggression. Thi…Continue Reading »
