TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Musa Umar Muhammad
AU  -  Shuaibu Abdullahi Haruna
AU  -  Jamila Egajanya Amali
PY  -  2024/01/02
Y2  -  2024/02/13
TI  -  Necessity of Media and Information Literacy for Effective Citizen Journalism in Nigeria  
JF  -  Nasarawa Journal Of Multimedia And Communication Studies
JA  -  NJOMACS
VL  -  5
IS  -  2
SE  -  
DO  -  
UR  -  https://www.njomacs.com/paper/necessity-of-media-and-information-literacy-for-effective-citizen-journalism-in-nigeria
SP  -  74–86
AB  -  New media and information technology have a profound impact on all ramifications of our lives, including the way and manner in which we gather facts and opinions, process them, write about them, edit them, package them, and disseminate them. This led to the advent of a new phenomenon in journalism known as citizen journalism, where non-professionals or untrained individuals engage in the act of reporting news on issues and events, leveraging the accessibility and affordability of the tools of digital technologies. Unfortunately, these concerned citizens know little or do not have the minutest skill to critically assess and distinguish between false and genuine information to be shared with a large, heterogeneous audience. The frequency with which those untrained journalists spread misinformation, hoaxes, and hate speech draws our attention to carrying out this study, relying on the available literature as the source of data for the study. In view of this singular fact, this paper therefore discusses the need of media and information literacy for effective citizen journalism. Anchored on democratic participant media theory as its theoretical undertone, the paper recommends, among other things, the integration of media and information literacy (MIL) skills into Nigerian educational curricula at both post-primary and higher institutions of learning so that the youth will be guided in the use of new communication media.
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