How Three Communities on Lake Victoria Landing Sites in Uganda Perceive and Interpret the Radio Programmes on the Lake's Crises

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dc.contributor.authorJjuuko, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T19:07:28Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T19:07:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractOver the past four decades, Lake Victoria has come under pressure from a multiplicity of interlinked human activities including industrial pollution, eutrophication and sedimentation. These pressures have contributed to ecological changes in the lake, incorporating unprecedented loss of biodiversity and water quality deterioration. This is threatening the lake's capacity to provide for the communities, as well as its contribution to the local economy. In performing their social responsibilities, the news media (particularly radio) have endeavoured to highlight the environmental crises on Lake Victoria. The Victoria Voice radio programmes on Uganda's CBS radio are one of the endeavours targeting lakeside communities. The key question raised here is how these radio programmes are perceived and interpreted by the communities. While they attest to their relevance in providing information on the crises on the lake, it is also evident that audiences are not naïve and passive, but recognise the ‘power relations’ embedded in the programmes. The communities also argue that the programmes shifted their focus from the major causes of pollution, and pointed fingers at them in addition to excluding their views from the programmes. In the end, the audiences advocate for opportunities that will increase their participation in these programmes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJjuuko, M. (2016). How three communities on Lake Victoria landing sites in Uganda perceive and interpret the radio programmes on the lake's crises. African Journalism Studies, 37(1), 120-136.https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2015.1084588en_US
dc.identifier.issn2374-3689
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/7858
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAfrican Journalism Studiesen_US
dc.subjectcultural studiesen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental crisesen_US
dc.subjectparticipatory communicationen_US
dc.titleHow Three Communities on Lake Victoria Landing Sites in Uganda Perceive and Interpret the Radio Programmes on the Lake's Crisesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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