Associations between Nollywood Movies and Risky Sexual Behaviours among in-School youths in Nigeria: An Ongoing Study

Abstract

Nollywood, the second largest movie industry in the world after America’s Hollywood, is Nigeria’s movie industry. This ongoing study investigates how sexual messages and scenes are communicated to viewers and if there is correlation between the pattern of Nollywood movies exposure and sexual behaviour of in-school adolescents in the southwestern part of Nigeria. Data will be collected from the participants through questionnaire while content of popular Nollywood movies among the participants will be content analyzed. It is expected that this study will provide information about the frequency of sexual scenes and how risky sexual behaviours are portrayed in Nollywood movies. Secondly, it is expected that this study will show the types of relationship between movie exposure behaviour and sexual behaviour in the study population.

Date
Sep 30, 2020 13:00 ET — 13:30 ET
Ayodele Alonge
Ayodele Alonge
Department of Library Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan (Nigeria) & Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)

Ayodele is a Library and Information Science Lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Fellow of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), Nairobi Kenya. He holds a PhD in Communication and Information Studies University of Nairobi, Kenya; Master of Publishing and Copyright Studies and Bachelor of Library and Information Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Toluwase Asubiaro
Toluwase Asubiaro
Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University

Toluwase Asubiaro is a PhD candidate at the Western University’s LIS program. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Master of Information of Science. He started his career in Language Technology in 2012 as a volunteer research assistant in African Languages Technology Initiative (ALT-I), Ibadan, Nigeria. His major research interest is informetrics, natural language processing, information retrieval and automatic language identification. Prior to his present position in LiT.RL, he had contributed to studies on language technology for Yoruba, a Nigerian language.