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Item Radio, A Medium For Fostering Positive Values Among Youth Negatively Influenced By Rock Music(Tangaza University College, 2011) Mengo, CharlesThis study is Focused on the effects rock and roll music on the project title "Radio as a medium for fostering positive values among the youth negatively influenced by Rock and Roll music that has emerged as one of the popular genres embraced by most youth. We investigated why the majority of the African youth are aping western culture through the adoption of culture behaviors disseminated through the Western Rock genre of music. Instead of countering this culture, it should be used to the advantage of the youth. The first chapter is a scholarly view of the negative effects of Rock and Roll music, its history and development, the reasons foi its popularity and its negative effects. The second chapter contains the research findings on the use and influence of rock in Langata area. The third chapter is an assessment of the findings in the light of uses and gratification theory and proposed recommendations on how radio can be used as the agent for social learning. We have finally come with our implementation strategies for the recommendations.Item Evangelization through Media: A Case Study of Lwanga Communication Centre - Mombasa(Tangaza University College., 2002-02) Mghanga, Festus KitoghoTo see in a concrete way how the Church is evangelising and will continue to evangelise through media in our times. This study is necessitated by the new situation the Church finds her self in, and under which it has to evangelise. The realisation of the importance of media in evangelisation can be seen from the much the church in Council wrote, and what different Popes have subsequently written concerning modern media and means of communications, and evangelisation.Item Impact of the Radio and Television in Pentecostal Movements on the Catholic Youth(Tangaza University College, 2005-02) Jenga, FredThe permanent bureau of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar meeting in Accra Ghana in 1993, issued a document New Christian Movements in Africa and Madagascar' in which it observed that contemporary Africa is witnessing an explosion of new religious movements. Mainline Churches such as the Catholic Church have been greatly affected, losing substantial numbers of the youth to these new groups. The new movements are promising quick happiness, contentment and purpose in life to the hundreds of thousands of young people they are attracting into their ranks. This constitutes an urgent pastoral challenge to the Catholic Church.
