In this study we used triangular partially balanced incomplete block design with twornassociate classes to construct optimal incomplete block designs for complete diallel crossrnsystem IV. A method is proposed to analyze Mating-Environment designs for estimatingrngeneral combining ability and...
This paper examines the use of indigenous communication channels for HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Erob woreda, Eastern Zone of Tigray. To this part, Qualitative Research and mainly Case Study was employed to explore the communication strategies, the folk media forms, the appropriateness of the...
The objective of this study was first to investigate the prevalence of poultry coccidiosis and tornidentify the coccidial species occurring in the study area on local strain and Rhode Island Redrnbreed chicken. The duration of the study was from September up to December, 2003 and thernsample size...
With the growing popularity of music video clips since the 1960’s and afterwards in the Ethiopia media landscape, audiences have been able to be exposed to a substantial number of Ethiopian music video clips. A sizeable number of these audiences constitute of Adolescent audiences of Addis...
For a long period of time, Ethiopia has involved in foreign trade andrnexperienced trade deficit several time in the past. This deficit can be largelyrnexplained by the unequal terms of trade between agricultural commodities (therncountry's major exports) and capital goods (the country’s...
This study sets out to examine trends and communicative potentials of Dagu: a folk communication process as well as a traditional medium of the Afar ethnicity. The research particularly shades light on the essence and attributes of Dagu so as to unveil its communicative potentials as a traditional...
The research has attempted to study the practices of self-regulation among the Ethiopianrnprivate presses with a view to apprehend the prospects and challenges ofrninstitutionalizing vibrant and functional self-regulatory bodies in the press industry.rnIn Ethiopia the press has been liberalized...
This study was designed to figure out how members of the sexes make sense of the images of women portrayed in women’s magazines published in Addis Ababa.rnA qualitative research methodology was adopted wherein textual analysis of the images, focus group interviews as well as individual...
The purpose of this study was examining ETV’s representation of crime and justice in itsrnPolice Program. The study was situated within a broader theoretical paradigm of culturalrnstudies but was specifically informed by theories of representation, semiotic, and Marxistrntheory of Ideology....
It is argued that trust in media is a necessary condition for trust in other political andrnsocial institutions. Hence, this study attempted to assess Addis Ababa’s public level ofrntrust in the Ethiopian mainstream media; analyze why the public either trust or mistrustrnthe mainstream...
Ethiopian scholars, for example (Teferi , 2004:6), (Yaekob 2007:21 ), (Yäwlsew, 2012:10 ) ,and others did different researches related with ‘Abay. All of their research was connected with ‘Abay. However, they were not focused on the issue of ‘Abay as it is expounded in the...
The main aim of this study was to investigate the news coverage of environmental issues in the Ethiopian state media. Agenda setting and framing were employed as theoretical frameworks of the study. By taking a six month data, the study was conducted on two selected major state media outlets of the...
The purpose of the study was to examine the current mass media and information proclamationrn(590/2008) in light of the present media practice. The study assessed the current status ofrnfreedom of expression and the press based on the views of the practitioners working in bothrngovernment and...
The main purpose of the research is looking up the theory and practice ofrnCommunity radio in Ethiopia .The community radio proclamationrnadopted just before two years ago, but there were some attempts tornestablish the adoption of the legislation. Thus, to assess the pre and postrnlegislation...
This study examined the effect of road traffic safety radio programs onrnroad use behavior of audiences and the communication strategies beingrnemployed to achieve this purpose. Both quantitative and qualitativernapproaches were chosen as methods of inquiring for this study. To collectrndata...
A significant step taken to address the road safety problem in Ethiopia was the formulation of a strategic plan/policy based on UN/WHO‘s recommendation of 2011-2020 as a Decade of Action for road safety. A key notion of the policy was stakeholders‘ collaboration based on the philosophy...
The study aims to examine the practice of source and story selection inrnEthiopian Television (ETV). The study thus explores the dominant sources usedrnwithin ETV news to see whose views are reflected most in the news and howrnthese sources become frequently used by journalists in the news. The...
This research attempted to study the coverage of development issues in government andrnprivate newspapers in Ethiopia. It was informed by modernization, dependency andrnparticipatory theoretical frameworks. Its focus was on a comparative analysis ofrndevelopment issues coverage in the Ethiopian...
In Ethiopia television is one of the main sources of information for many audiences and most influential in Addis Ababa. EBC (TV) as a mainstream media has been serving its audiences since its establishment in 1964. Although audiences continue watching EBC (TV), they are usually expressing...
The purpose of this study was to examine how Ethiopian print media framed inflation duringrnthe period of March 2008 to February 2009. The research employed qualitative approachrnusing textual analysis. Three newspapers namely, Addis Zemen, Reporter and Negadras werernselected for the study. Data...