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    Overview of theory and research in communication and language arts
    (Ibadan University Press, Ibadan, 2019) Ojebode, A.; Oladapo, O. A.; Oyedele, O. J.; Adegoke, L. A.; Elegbe, O.
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    Moving beyond numerals: a meta-analysis of research methods and theoretical application in media gatekeeping studies
    (Halygraph (Nigeria), 2011-06) Ojebuyi, B. R.; Ojebode, A.
    This study investigates trends in media gatekeeping research, specifically in terms of research methods and theoretical application. Through a meta-analysis, 128 media gatekeeping-related studies purposively drawn from communication-based journals (published between 2000 and 2008) were content analysed. The findings reveal a progressive drift from quantitative method (38.3%) towards qualitative method (57.0%): a deviation from previous submissions that communication researchers prefer quantitative method to qualitative approach (Berg, 2001; Abawi, 2008). However, results confirm the previous findings that majority of communication studies are not theory-driven (Kim and Weaver, 2002) as only 44(34.4%) of the articles examined had theoretical frameworks. The study encourages more theoretical applications and synthesis of methods in media gatekeeping research.
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    Rhetorical strategies in secondary news presentation by radio stations in Oyo State, Nigeria
    (Department of English, University of Ibadan, 2012) Ojebuyi, B. R.; Ojebode, A.
    Secondary gatekeeping—a practice where a news medium selects and broadcasts fragments of the contents of another, primary media—is a novel, but prevalent phenomenon especially in the Nigerian broadcast media. The practice, unlike primary gatekeeping, is yet to receive copious scholarly attention. This study, through a combination of In-depth Interviews and Documentary (Content) Analysis, explored the rationale for newspaper reviews as performed by Radio O-Y-O, Premier FM, and Splash FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, and the delivery strategies employed by presenters of the radio stations. The study is anchored on Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (MMS) as its theoretical framework. Findings show that the radio stations’ rationale for reviewing news contents of newspapers was to achieve increased audience base, gain improved market value, and earn financial profits. Major devices of delivery, aimed at sustaining audience interest, include dramatisation, paraphrasing and suspense, translations, and voice modulation and mimicking.
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    Mono-method research approach and scholar–policy disengagement in Nigerian communication research
    (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018-03) Ojebode, A.; Ojebuyi, B. R.; Oladapo, O. A.; Oyedele, O. J.
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    Engaging development: environment and content of radio broadcasting in Nigeria
    (Institute for Media and Society and Panos Institute West Africa, 2007) Ojebode, A.; Adegbola, T.
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    Audience Research Methods for Campus Radio Stations
    (Institute for Media and Society and Panos Institute West Africa, 2010) Ojebode, A.; Onekutu, P.; Adegbola, T.
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    Nigeria's freedom of information act: provision, strengths, challenges
    (Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania, 2011) Ojebode, A.
    It took well over ten years to pass the Freedom of Information bill into law in Nigeria. It also took the bill three journeys to the National Assembly. This article connects the reluctance of the concerned authorities to pass the bill to the age-long struggle in Nigeria (and elsewhere) between the press, citizens and civil society on the one hand and the government on the other, with the former trying to widen the circumference of government activities that should be made public and the latter trying to shrink the same. The article traces the journeys of the FOI Act, and examines its provisions, first attempts at applying it and the challenges to its full implementation
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    Cultural functions and dysfunctions of media in Nigeria
    (D-Net Communications, Norway, 2010) Ojebode, A.
    The possible influence of mass media on culture has attracted remarkable scholarly efforts which have understandably left in their trail series of hanging questions. Right from Wright’s influential theorization on the issue of media and culture, researchers have often returned a low score for the media. But studies which have adopted a comprehensive, stakeholders’ approach to the study of media and culture are few. Through a qualitative approach, this study attempted to examine the assessment of Nigerian media as cultural agents by stakeholders—audiences, producers, culture experts and cable vendors. Interviews and focus group discussions showed that the media in Nigeria promote cultural growth as they transmit cultural skills to newer generations and facilitate intra-national cultural contact through intercultural education. As they transmit cultural values, they also indirectly set the standard but the media alone cannot be expected to standardize culture. In their bid to please their audiences so as to be on the good page of the advertiser’s book, the media permit foreign programs thereby permitting cultural invasion. Backed by the advertiser’s money, the audiences have become a rather strong factor in the cultural programming decisions which producers make, and if blames are to be apportioned for cultural dysfunctions, the audiences therefore have a share.
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    The failure of radio to communicate knowledge of sickle cell disorder in N igeria
    (Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania, 2010) Umana, E.; Ojebode, A.
    "The study aimed to find out how much residents in Akwa Ibom knew about the sickle cell disorder. In a survey of 300 people, we discovered that only few people (32.9%) had adequate or fairly adequate knowledge of sickle cell disorder (SCD); only about 45% were definite that they would not marry a carrier if they too were carriers. Radio, the most important source of health information for about 73% of our respondents and though praised for health education and information in Nigeria, says nothing about SCD. Workers in the radio station were themselves not aware of the prevalence of, or they felt incompetent to educate their listeners about, SCD. It is our belief that these people know little or nothing about SCD because radio says nothing about it. There is need for non-media forces to call media attention to and in fact use media to educate people about SCD in Nigeria. Nigeria government also must show commitment to SCD education. "