MASS MEDIA AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ETINAN FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY

This study sought to determine how mass media and rural development affect the federal constituency. The mode of communication in the 21st century has been absolutely different from that of the 18th century and the level of mass media communication/information in the urban region is far more effective than that of the rural region. This project is aimed at finding the impact of mass media and rural development by analyzing the various ways which affect the three (3) local governments under the federal constituency of Etinan. A descriptive research will be conducted and a sampling technique used to select twenty (20) people in each of the local government and the data are analyzed using percentage. It was concluded that mass media has really developed the rural areas in our federal constituency.