Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 770-783
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Corporate Community

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that has been described as slipping into the abyss of renewed conflict and violence following perceived failure of the amnesty deal to drive change, it is crucial to rethink the instrumentality of the new media in bringing better corporate-community relations in the region. It is expected that this process will democratise stakeholder engagement and widen discursive space following the speed, method, and multiplicity of the platforms that new media affords. The author also hopes that arguments shared here will cause a rethink on the possibility of a sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta through new media technology.

Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability

2015 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Corporate Community

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that has been described as slipping into the abyss of renewed conflict and violence following perceived failure of the amnesty deal to drive change, it is crucial to rethink the instrumentality of the new media in bringing better corporate-community relations in the region. It is expected that this process will democratise stakeholder engagement and widen discursive space following the speed, method, and multiplicity of the platforms that new media affords. The author also hopes that arguments shared here will cause a rethink on the possibility of a sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta through new media technology.

Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability

2019 ◽  
pp. 826-840
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Corporate Community

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that has been described as slipping into the abyss of renewed conflict and violence following perceived failure of the amnesty deal to drive change, it is crucial to rethink the instrumentality of the new media in bringing better corporate-community relations in the region. It is expected that this process will democratise stakeholder engagement and widen discursive space following the speed, method, and multiplicity of the platforms that new media affords. The author also hopes that arguments shared here will cause a rethink on the possibility of a sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta through new media technology.

Communication Strategies of Government Agencies for Mass Awareness in Rural Areas of Punjab: A study based on Health Department of District Amritsar, Punjab

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Nazir
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Media Technology

Rural development has always been a core issue for the development planners in order to take the country on the path of socio-economic development. Mahatma Gandhi rightly said that the development in true sense is not possible unless villages of the country are developed. In the initial years of development planning stress was laid on agriculture and industrial development but with the passage of time, focus shifted to other equally important areas like Healthcare, Education, Employment and Sanitation programmes. Communicating with the rural masses was always a point of discussion. Earlier, where interpersonal means and folk media were the only means of reaching people but with the advent of print and electronic media, there was a paradigm shift in communication strategies also. Presently there are number of communication strategies which are being employed by various departments in order to reach people and create awareness. The present study would try to find out the communication strategies of Department of Health and Family Welfare of District Amritsar, Punjab. The study would also try to find out the media usage of the department for public awareness. Besides, it would also be helpful to find out the role (if any) of new media technology for information dissemination in rural areas.

scholarly journals Shell Nigeria’s Global Memorandum of Understanding and corporate-community accountability relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamuyimen Egbon ◽  
Uwafiokun Idemudia ◽  
Kenneth Amaeshi
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Corporate Community

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Shell Nigeria’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) promotes corporate-community accountability as a basis for fostering sustainable community development in the Niger Delta. Design/methodology/approach Shell Nigeria’s GMoU stand-alone reports were analysed through the lenses of accountability and transparency theoretical frameworks to explore the extent to which GMoU, as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, is dialogically embedded and practised. Meaning-oriented content analysis was deductively used to isolate pertinent themes and generate findings from the background theoretical literature. Findings The authors find that Shell discursively appropriates the meaning of accountability and transparency in a manner that allows it to maintain its social legitimacy and the asymmetric power relations between itself and host communities whilst restricting communities’ agency to hold it accountable. Shell does this by interpreting the notion of participation restrictively, selectively deploying the concept of transparency and accountability and subtly exerting excessive control over the GMoU. Thus, the GMoU’s potential to contribute to sustainable community development and positive corporate-community relation is unlikely tenable. Originality/value Accountability and transparency are core and critical to corporate-community relations and for achieving community development CSR objectives, but are often taken for granted or ignored in the CSR literature on the Niger Delta of Nigeria. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by using accountability and transparency lenses to unpick GMoU model and contribute to studies on CSR practices by oil multinational corporations (MNCs) in developing countries. Indeed, the use of these lenses to explore CSR process offers new insights as to why CSR practices have failed to contribute to sustainable community development despite increased community spending by oil MNCs.

scholarly journals Analysis on the Art Skills of Editing Radio and TV News in the Era of Financial Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Siyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Television News ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Era ◽  
The North ◽  
News Industry

<p>Under the background of the new era, network technology, information technology and new media technology have been applied to various fields, effectively promoting social progress and industry development. In particular, the application of big data, cloud computing and multimedia technology in the radio and television industry not only accelerates the speed of information transmission and increases the number of information dissemination, but also truly realizes information sharing and promotes the sustainable development of the radio and television industry. Under the background of the new era, the information collection and processing technology and editing technology in the radio and television news industry have been improved, which also puts forward new requirements for the editing skills of radio and television news. Based on the author's own news practice, through analyzing the editing skills of radio and television news in the new era, the author puts forward some thoughts and countermeasures to provide useful reference for more radio and television news from the north.</p>

State Fragility and Stakeholder Engagement

2016 ◽  
pp. 136-154
Author(s):  
Uzoechi Nwagbara ◽  
Emeka Smart Oruh ◽  
Carlton Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Fragile State ◽  
State Fragility ◽  
Amplification Method ◽  
Petroleum Sector ◽  
Enabling Institutions

In situations where government functions are in short supply as with most developing countries particularly Nigeria, issues concerning stakeholder engagement and stakeholder voice are usually on the back burner as a consequence. In this chapter, the authors argues that such landscape is midwifed and sustained by state fragility, which is a situation where government is incapacitated to provide basic social goods as well as infrastructures and enabling institutions that can facilitate corporate-stakeholder engagement and stakeholders' voice amplification. In the Nigerian petroleum industry, this contentious issue are redoubled, given the controversial dynamics of the sector. As this chapter contends, new media (as opposed to old media) has the potentials to facilitate better engagement in corporate-stakeholder dialectics, which can be a harbinger of amplification of stakeholders' voice for sustainable relations and engagement in the industry. In a fragile state, traditional media has a monopoly of information dissemination and sharing, which traditionally limits stakeholder engagement/voice thereby frustrating efforts towards ensuring corporate-stakeholder engagement, corporate responsibility and accountability. Thus, this dilemma can be surmounted with the aid of new media as it is a communication/engagement tool that democratises the discursive space for deliberative corporate-stakeholder relations. It is hoped that this contention will help to illuminate perspectives on how the lingering corporate-stakeholder Catch-22 in Nigeria's petroleum sector can be better managed. Methodologically, literature on main issues in this chapter will be explored and a conceptual framework – stakeholder voice amplification method (SVAM) – will be developed that has the potential to advance knowledge on better corporate-stakeholder engagement in a fragile state such as Nigeria.

scholarly journals Reflection on College Education and Teaching Management under New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Yunxia Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
College Education ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Teaching Management ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Under the background of current social development, the role of media in the process of information dissemination is becoming more and more enlarged, the speed of information dissemination is greatly accelerated based on the platform built by the media. In the process of information dissemination, the related concepts of new media are derived based on the media platform. This is also the result of the continuous integration of information technology and network technology. Compared with the traditional media, the advantages of new media technology itself are more obvious both the source of information, but also the reporter and audience, so in the context of the development of new media art, the spread of various social hot issues is very fast, and the coverage is also wider. Under the background of the development of new media, colleges and universities themselves are greatly impacted by the information of new media, because people have higher acceptance of new media, so they receive all kinds of information from the outside world through mobile phones and computers, which leads to the challenge of education and teaching management in colleges and universities at present.

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