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Aondover Eric Msughter
Department of Mass Communication, Skyline University Nigeria
Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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Have you Heard What They Are Doing to Women? Media Portrayal of Female Celebrities in Nigerian Press Aondover Eric Msughter; Martha Msoo Hile; Fatima Salihu Bappa
Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial Vol 9 No 2 (2022): Konfrontasi, June
Publisher : Budapest International Research and Critics University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i2.206

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The globalized culture of celebrity is argued to have profound effect on knowledge, power and representation. Celebrity culture as a popular culture promoted through the media influence certain categories of group. The study used quantitative content analysis to examine the portrayal of female celebrities in the Daily Trust and The Nation newspapers. The study used purposive sampling technique to select the newspaper, and stratified sampling by days of the week to select the editions. The study used framing theory to examine the coverage and portrayal of female celebrities in the two selected newspapers. The findings suggest that the media should be cognizant of the harmful and erroneous impressions that can result from portraying female celebrities in terms of their attributes rather than their professional accomplishment. The study concludes that issues concerning Nigerian female celebrity are seriously lacking both inequality and quantity. Despite the active involvement of females in the entertainment industry, they are still being fitted and portrayed in negatively stereotypic ways. The relationship between the media and the society is a symbiotic one - the media feeds ‘from’ and ‘into’ the society hence, whatever the media portrays as ‘normal’ and prominent is what the society sees as so. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the representation of women in the media by increasing the quality and quantity of news stories about women.
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Hate Speech among Editors of Daily Trust, The Nation and The Guardian Newspapers in Nigeria Aondover Eric Msughter
Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial Vol 9 No 2 (2022): Konfrontasi, June
Publisher : Budapest International Research and Critics University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i2.209

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All over the world, hate speech represents a form of threat to damage the lives of individuals and increase the sense of fear in entire communities. Scholars have aligned with the description that it is a globally-endorsed paradigm that the press as an important institution in the democratic process plays a key role during elections. As the Fourth Estate of the Realm, the press provides the platform for narratives and discourses in the service of elections, political negotiations, and other features of the contestations among politicians and other civil organisations involved in election administration. However, problems associated with election reporting and media role in political contestations and machinations, particularly on the African continent, have been a recurrent clog in the wheel of politics in Africa. For instance, in Nigeria, since the 1950s up to the early 1980s, spiraling into the Fourth Republic that started in 1999 and beyond, several election problems that were rooted in perceived mishandling of the electoral process by the media has occurred in the country. The 1965 parliamentary and 1983 general elections were faced by conflicts with accompanying widespread violence, which resulted in military interventions. Within this context, the study adopts an interpretative phenomenological analysis with editors of Daily Trust, The Nation, and The Guardian newspapers in relation to the reportage of the 2015 and 2019 general elections in Nigeria. The theoretical tenets of Critical Race Theory serve the study goal. Nine Editors were purposively selected for an in-depth interview. Arising from the interview, the study discovered that there are implications of hate speech on the professional journalistic practice as it undermines the ethics of the journalism profession. The study recommends that as gatekeepers of the content, editors should engage in checking and cross-checking of facts as a guiding principle in the professional journalistic practice in Nigeria.
Co-Authors Fatima Salihu Bappa Martha Msoo Hile