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| Media Political Incitement and Social Unrest in Uganda: A Case Study of Kampala Central Division in Kampala District, Ugangda.
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Friday Christopher, Sekate Erinewo, Ntirandekura Moses, Masembe Muhammad
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Abstract:
This study was about the Impact of Media political Incitement on Social Unrest in Uganda: A case study of Kampala Central Division in Kampala District, Uganda. This study aimed at examining the impact of media political incitement in the propagation of social unrest in Uganda; thus, specifying on different types of social unrest that have been caused by media political incitement, challenges facing media in reporting on political issues, and possible solutions to the challenges affecting media in reporting on political issues in Kampala Central Division. The total population of the participants selected in this study was 40; whereby the researcher employed the Slovene's formulae to calculate the sample size of 36 participants. Majority of the respondents in this study were male by 58.33%, yet their counterparts (female) constituted to 41.67% respectively. The study also reported that 44% of the participants strongly agreed with journalists were used as political campaign tool to mop up party support of either the ruling party or the opposition; audience does not receive a complete image of the political scene; drawing the attention of voters to how politicians are fulfilling their responsibilities to society; as challenges faced by the media practitioners during dissemination of political issues to their audience. The results on table 6 indicate that the average mean value is 3 .48, which indicates that respondents agreed that sustaining collective action aimed at influencing public decisions as one type of social unrest. The average standard deviationis0.959, which indicates that respondents had variation in responses regarding the claim that sustaining collective action aimed at influencing public decisions is one of the social unrest types. This is in line with (Senchal de la Roche., 1996) who defines Collective violence as personal injury by a group. Most is social control by which people define or respond to behavior as deviant. The author distinguishes four forms of violence: lynching, unrest, vigilantism and terrorism. From the information revealed in table 6, respondents believed that social unrest also happens through public representation of the goals, unity and values. This is revealed by a mean value of 4.45. This implies that the respondents strongly agreed that media political incitement cause public representation of the goals, unity and values. However, a standard deviation value of 0.569 under the same test revealed varied responses from the respondents interviewed. The standard deviation implies that a few respondents were in agreement with the claim that media political incitement cause public representation of the goals, unity and values. This is in line with (Tilly 2004) who notes that social movements emerge as a synthesis of three elements: These are campaign such as a public representation of the goals, unity and values as requisites for sustaining the coherence of a social movement .The study further proposed that following ethics of the profession; letting electorates know the thoughts and characters of the candidates; exercise the power to provide information; setting the public agenda to inform the electorate about the candidates would address the above challenges The study concluded that Media practitioners called for sustaining collective action aimed at influencing public decisions; public representation of the goals, demonstrations; political violence; traffic blockades and wild strikes; and desire for change which turned into social unrest as strongly agreed by 47% of the participants.. The study concluded that different types of social unrest caused by media political incitement in Kampala Central Division included media practitioners called for sustaining collective action aimed at influencing public decisions; challenges such as they suffer stress through news-sourcing and possible solutions to include media practitioners let electorates know the thoughts and characters of the candidates. The researcher recommended that media should be independent and try to give the public the correct information.SECTION ONE
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