THE NEW MEDIA, YOUTH MOBILIZATION AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

The purpose of this work therefore was to examine the relationship between the new media, youth mobilization and insecurity in Nigeria. The study adopts Uses gratification theory (UGT) and Technological determinism theory (TDT) as it theoretical framework. The study adopted the survey research design, the sample size is one hundred and twenty (120); purposive sampling technique was used in the study drawn from the population of students of the faculty of social sciences of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. The major instruments used in generating data for this study were questionnaires, observations and interview. The collected data were analyzed using simple percentage.