CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
Television
has become a significant social phenomenon in Nigeria and all over the world.
Television viewing is believe to generate social forces of undeniable
influence. It is assumed the most entertainment mass medium for man, women and
children.
Television
daily programmes which get full attention of the viewers. One might say what
impact television is able to inculcate in children. It is because of various
plays, music, films, and other shows which are televised everyday. (Zubari,
1992)
However,
the most important agent of socialization for the development of the child is
the mass media. The Mass Media are the different processes that facilitate
communication between the sender of a message and the receiver of that message.
It plays an important role in the socialization of children. In fact, there are
many types of media; these include newspapers, magazines, radio, films, CDs,
Internet, and television. These kinds of media, especially television, affect
children's and adult's behavior in different ways. Adewumi (1998).
Similarly,
television as a major agent of socialization has a great effect on our society
today. When watching different TV shows seeing all those actors and actresses
with these great figures hurt many people in the society today. In other ways
watching TV could be a good thing when an actor or actress is on TV in
different shows or music it could bring many good things like being a role
model for an adolescent teenager who wants someone to looks up too. Having
these agents is a great guideline for people who want to start with a great
start with their children or wants to be a good communicator.
The
average family in the Nigeria
has at least one television turned on for at least seven hours a day.
Television is the biggest mass media in a country and has positive and negative
aspects.
There
are some programs which are very helpful with lots of information for the
children. For example; AIT and Silverbird T.V, have some good programme called
"Dora, the Explorer". Children can learn to speak so many educative
programme and also do things such as singing, standing up and pronouncing words
in English.
On
the same channel, there is also a program called "Blue's Clues". In
this program, children learn how to think, sing and discover clues. When
children watch these programs, they are not the same people anymore because
they can become more knowledgeable. These programs are very good because they
change children's minds and make the children different from what they were
before.
However,
there are also television programs that affect children negatively. For
instance; on channel eleven, there is a dreadful program that is bad for the
children; it is called "Jerry Springer". This program should not be
shown on TV because it has a lot of fights and vulgar language.
"W.W.F" is another negative program, which has too much violence, and
unfortunately children love it. Children should not see these kinds of programs
because children tend to imitate the fighters. In addition, there are some
movies that have a lot of violence and bad words and children love these kinds
of movies. Children like and learn how to use knives, guns and explosives
because they see it on TV. Sometimes children take the role of their
superheroes in real life because they see their favorite actors using these
weapons. For example; when children watch the actor stealing a car on TV, they
learn from it and they also want to steal because they want to be like their
superheroes.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The
positive and negative effect of television on the behaviour of secondary school
student attract the attention of so many intelligent people in the state and
other in the educational sector see the problem to which the research address itself are
many.
In
this case the problem of the research in in this programmes is how can secondary
school students be affect in a positive way.
Generally
this work examine the influence of on the behaviour of secondary school
students especially students of Kidvac
Secondary School, Iree
1.3 Objective of the Study
¨
To
study whether Kidvac
Secondary school students
have access to television.
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To
know how often secondary school students watch television programme.
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To
examine various television programme mostly watched by Kidvac secondary
school students.
¨ To
study weather Kidvac secondary school students imitate what they see on
television.
¨ To
examine if secondary students are exposure to television violence induced
negative behaviour.
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To
know if television affect children education and social life of the students
1.4 Research Questions
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Do
Kidvac secondary school students have access to television?
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What kind of television programme is mostly
watch by Kidvac secondary school students?
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Does
Kidvac students imitate what they see on television?
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Does
the students exposure to television violence induced negative behaviour?
¨
Does
the exposure to television affect education and social life of the student?
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Does
exposure of students to television programmes influence their patronage of
products?
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To
what extent does the entertainment programmes on television influence the
choice of dressing of students?
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Does
the entertainments programmes on television influence the choice of peer group
of students?
1.5 Significance of the Study
The
study is to discover the influence of television on secondary school students
and how television watching affect their attitude. This is because negative
behaviour is caused by so many factors such as; family, school, peers,
environment and most influential is television all of this factors work
together at the same time to build the attitude of children.
Therefore,
this study will show parents how to be responsible for the upbringing and
training of their children instead of living such training to their peers,
television, teacher and determine watching hour and programme exposure of their
children.
Therefore,
the findings of this research will serve as a good literature for both scholars
and students of mass communication who might want to carry out similar or
related research in the future.
Media
houses will also learning how to schedule their programmes and know the nature
of the programmes to be televised.
1.6 Scope of the Study
The
scope of the study has been limited to the Kidvac secondary school students
from both the junior classes to the senior classes are to studied.
Kidvac
secondary school is selected from all schools in Osun State due to lack of
money, time and logistics to study all
secondary school students in Osun state.
1.7
Limitation of the Study
Wide
research of this nature cannot be carried out without some constrains, this
constrains pose a lot of limitations to this work.
Time: Duration for the research work is relative1y
short while stress emanated from other academic activities is also another
constrain.
Material: Little materials are also available
because the work is relatively new.
Financial: Financial constrain poses another
challenges as most of information are gathered through newspapers
1.8
Definition of Terms
Influence:
an action or pattern of behaviour that is repeated often that it becomes
typical of somebody, although i.e or she might not aware of it.
Secondary
School: A school for
children who are between the age of eleven to eighteen years old.
Students: This is one studied at school, college
or university
Television:
This is an electronic
device that presents event and situation in audio visual manner with the
capacity to make viewers see the event in a real sense.
Viewing:
to watch something or
ability to see something from a particular place.
