UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TO OBSCENE IMAGES ON FACEBOOK

Adeyemi Gideon Adeogun, Chigozi Eke, Muideen Opeyemi Adeyemi, Ruth Udoka Ochor

Abstract


This study investigated the University of Port Harcourt post-graduate (PG) students’ attitudes to obscene images on Facebook. The study made use of analytical descriptive survey design. The population of the study consisted all the 15,324 post-graduate students of the University of Port Harcourt of 2020/2021 session. The sample size for the study was 375, obtained using Krecie and Morgan formula. The data analysis was done using 365 copies of intelligibly completed and returned valid questionnaire which contained close-ended questions. The data analysis was done using percentages, frequencies and weighted mean score. Findings from the study revealed that the University of Port Harcourt PG students’ thoughts towards obscene images on Facebook were very unfavourable and poor. Also, the finding showed to a high extent that the obscene images on Facebook evoked offensive feelings and elicited hatred for Facebook among PG students of the University of Port Harcourt. The study concluded that the dynamism inherent in long running social computing sites like Facebook can affect how the users use it as well as their attitudes towards the medium. The study recommended that Facebook should regulate its policy on obscene images and serve up to filter views to maintain the favourable attitudes


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Attitudes; Obscene; Images; Facebook; Social Media;

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47851/naujocommed.v2i2.123

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