The impact of television reality shows on the youth in Uganda:
| dc.contributor.author | Ashemeza, Rita | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-14T15:59:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-14T15:59:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09 | |
| dc.description | a research report submitted to the college of humanities and social sciences in partial fulfillment for the award of a bachelor’s degree in mass communication of Kampala international university. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The general objective of the study was to determine the effect of television realty shows on the youth in Uganda and the specific objectives were to establish the various television reality shows in Uganda, to assess the impact of television reality shows among the youth and to determine the relationship between television reality shows and the behavior of youth in Uganda. From the findings of the study 85% of the respondents agreed that there are realty shows at NTV, Uganda. It was also revealed by 84.6% of the respondents that there are no youth realty empowerment programs. The findings of the study also revealed that television realty shows improve the behavior of the youth by 80.2%.However it was also discovered that that television realty shows do not contribute to the academic performance of the youth and more so it was also revealed that television realty shows affect the sexual behavior of the youth if not watched by the target age group. Furthermore, the findings of the study revealed that 96% of the respondents agreed that there is a positive relationship between television realty shows and behavior of youth in Uganda. This means that the realty programs are watched by the right viewers in terms of age, sex, marital status and many more, their behaviors are likely to improve in different patterns. The study recommended that the management should introduce realty youth empowerment shows as the generally improve the determination of the youth since 84.6% of the respondents revealed that there are no youth realty empowerment programs, the management should make sure that it informs the parents to guide their children about the programs to watch, the management should introduce more realty shows that can contribute to the academic performance of the youth and that he government should sponsor more television realty shows as they improve the behavior of the youth by 96%. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/6956 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, College of Humanities and social sciences. | en_US |
| dc.subject | television | en_US |
| dc.subject | youth in Uganda | en_US |
| dc.title | The impact of television reality shows on the youth in Uganda: | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |