Social Media Usage Pattern & Users Content among IDPs in Jimeta-Yola Region, Northeastern Part of Nigeria

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Social Media Usage Pattern & Users Content among IDPs in Jimeta-Yola Region, Northeastern Part of Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

No studies have been conducted to determine Social Media Usage Pattern & Users Content among IDPs present in Jimeta-Yola, Adamawa State Nigeria.

Therefore this study aims to enlighten the impact of Social Media Usage, its pattern and the kind of information being sought after by IDPs. 25 IDPs where interviewed one- on-one in Jimeta.

Feedback from the interviews where carefully examined by the researcher using the Uses and Gratification Theory by Kartz, Blumber and Guvetich.

The results showed that the IDPs obtained physical, emotional and psychological satisfaction form social media and all had different patterns of usage that suited them individually.

The kind of information they sort kept their minds of the fact that they are displaced and entertained them. My research was successful because the displaced persons do use social media, they have a pattern of usage and it provides them with physical, mental and emotional satisfaction.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CERTIFICATION……
READERS’ APPROVAL
DEDICATION…
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENT
LIST OF TABLES..
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
OBJECTIVES
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION
REFRENCES

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Social Media is a platform or platforms for people to interact, upload, read and obtain information from that was put there by others.

We have different types of social media. Some for blogger’s while the top forms of social media are those created for people to interact for example Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter etc. As at four five years ago, we just had platforms for you to read and upload videos but today we have platforms for live streams like hangout, SnapChat, Facetime etc.

People use social media for information, communication, and marketing, consolation, to learning new things and to share experiences. Social Media content are put up by its readers and prospective readers not just for entertainment but enlightenment.

IDP’s are Internally Displaced Persons are people who are forced to leave their homes and are sometimes referred refugees when they move out of their country or the country in which they were displaced.

The governments of the countries in which they are displaced try to create a new home for them which are most times referred to as camps, so you have IDP camps in situated areas for these people.

REFERENCES

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Ellison, N.B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, 12(4), article 1, 1-29. Retrieved April 10, 2010, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html

Haridakis, P., & Hanson, G. (2009). Social interaction and co-viewing with YouTube: Blending mass communication receptions and social connection. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(2), 317-335.

LaRose, R., & Eastin, M.S. (2004). A social cognitive theory of internet uses and gratifications: Toward a new model of media attendance. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 48(3), 358-377.

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