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• Title: Political Cartoons Readership Among Uyo Residents of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria.
• Author : The Western Journal of Black Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 204 KB

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Introduction The press as a medium of mass communication for many years, has undertaken the role of helping the citizenry to discover the truth. It has undertaken to educate the public on public issues, present all manner of evidence and expose wrong doings in the society in the hope of making society a better place to live in (Udoakah, 2001). This role is one which always exposes the print media to a strained relationship with high-handed governments in the developing countries. It is one which has led to the beating up of journalists publicly, their arrest and detention, seizures of critical editions of newspapers and magazines, and closures of some newspaper and magazine houses for months. (Udoakah, 1996). These are peculiar forms of control which the Nigerian press had been passing through. Yet, it has to continue to pass on information about politics and other issues to the public. To maintain the circulation of critical and independent views under this condition, the Nigerian press adopted other communicative forms such as cartoons as tactics of resistance. Cartoons have a "tradition of satire and caricature, and concealment of aggression with humour," as Kotlarz (1983:22) notes in her article in the Screen. Cartoons are constructed and created images which may be influenced by ideology, stereotypes, and religious considerations.

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