Relationship between Social Media Collaboration and Ecosystem Management in Enugu State, Nigeria

  • Emmanuel K Agbaeze Business Management department, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
  • Ajoku P.P. Onyinye Business Management department, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
  • Obamen Joseph Business Management department, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
  • Omonona Solomon Business Management department, University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i4(J).2411
Keywords: Social Media, Social Media Collaboration, Ecosystem Management

Abstract

This study was done on the relationship between social media collaborations and ecosystem management in Enugu state. The study was premised on the case of herdsmen-farmers/villagers clash over grazing fields and farmlands in Enugu State being the ecology-related issue. Survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 100 social media group participants was selected using snowball sampling technique. The questionnaire was used for data collection. Content validity was used as a method for testing the validity of the questionnaire while Cronbach's alpha method was used for testing the internal consistency of the items on the questionnaire. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to test the hypothesis formulated for the study. Findings revealed that social media collaborations via Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter have a significant relationship with ecosystem management. It was recommended that government and ecologically concerned agencies should employ social media collaborations as the policy for ecosystem management. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Abbass, I. M. (2001). No Retreat no Surrender Conflict for Survival between Fulani Pastoralists and Farmers in Northern Nigeria. European Scientific Journal, 8(1), 1857–7881. Adebayo, A. G. (1995). Of Man and Cattle: A Reconsideration of the Tradition of Origin of Pastoral Fulani of Nigeria. History of Africa, 18, 1-21. Baden, R., Bender, A., Spring, N., Bhattacharjee, B. & Starin, D. (2009). Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy. University of Maryland. Best, M. (2013b). Emerging markets peacebuilding in a networked world. Communications of the ACM, 56 (4), 30-32. Carr, D. F. & Ebrary, I. (2014). Social Collaboration for Dummies (1st ed.). Hoboken, Conference, and Managing Conflict: When Talk and Structure Collide. Society and Natural Resources, 9, 77–91 Coyle, I. & Meier, P. (2009). New technologies in emergencies and conflicts: The role of information and social networks. United Nation Foundation. Dolwick, J. S. (2009). The ‘Social’ and Beyond: Introducing Actor-Network: A Synthesis of the Approach, Conclusions and Recommendations of TEEB. Journal of Economics of Nature.
Gagliardone, I., Kalemera, A., Kogen, L., Nalwoga, L., Stremlau, N. & Wairagala, W. (2015). In Search of Local Knowledge on ICTs in Africa. ICTs, State building and Peacebuilding in Africa. Retrieved from http://repository.upenn.edu/africaictresearch/4. Gray, B. (1989). Collaborating: finding common ground for multiparty problems. Jossey Bass, San Francisco. Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Social networks and Internet connectivity effects. Information, Communication, & Society, 8(2), 125-147. Hoffmann, J. (2013). UNPEACE Open Knowledge Network Occasional Working Papers No. 1. Kelly, T. & Souter, D. (2014). The World Bank, Washington, D.C. http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/978-1-4648-0074-0 Kemmis, D. (1990). Community and the Politics of Place. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. Keough, H. L. & Blahna, D. J. (2005). Achieving Integrative, Collaborative Ecosystem Management. Conservation Biology, 20(5), 1373–1382. Kininmonth, S. & Bergsten, A. (2015). Closing the collaborative gap: Aligning social and ecological connectivity for better management of interconnected wetlands. AMBIO, 44(1), 138–148. Lee, K. N. (1993). Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Management: Adaptive, Community-based conservation. Island Press, Washington, D.C. Mayah, E. (2016). Special report: Inside Agatu killing field: blood on the streets, charred bodies everywhere. Premium times. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/200369-special-report-insideagatu-killing-field-blood-on-the-streets-charred-bodies-everywhere.html. Meffe, G. K., Nielsen, L. A., Knight, R. L. & Schenborn, D. A. (2002). Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation. Science for a changing world. Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20009 USA. Meredith, R. M. (2014). Social Networking Site Use by Mothers of Young Children. CSCW 2014. Parents and Children Baltimore, MD, USA. Ndolo, I. E. (2005). Mass media system and the society, Enugu: RhyceKerex Publishers. Nwosu, I. E. & Wilson, D. (2004). Communication, mass media, and conflict management in Nigeria. Enugu: ACCE (Nigeria Chapter). Oatley, N. (2011). Search for Common Ground & United States Institute of Peace http://cu-csds.org/wpcontent/uploads/2009/10/usip2011vdk.pdf. Obot, C. (2004). Mass media and conflict management. In Nwosu and Wilson's (Eds) Communication, media and conflict management in Nigeria. Enugu: Prime Targets Limited. Ojo, E. (2003). The Mass Media and the Challenges of Democratic Values in Nigeria: Possibilities and Limitations. London, SAGE Publications. Okello, M. A. (2014). Identifying motivators for state-pastoralist dialogue: Exploring the relationships between livestock services, self-organisation and conflict in Nigeria's pastoralist Fulani. Pastoralism. Okoro, N. & Diri, C. (2009) Public sphere and civic journalism: A fulcrum for effective political communication in Nigeria. Journal of political economy, Vol. 3 No. 1&2. Nsukka: Department of political science. Olsson, P., Schultz, L., Folke, C. & Hahn, T. (2003). Social networks for ecosystem management: a case study of Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden. The Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM) Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Pillay, K., van Niekerk, B. & Maharaj, M. (2010). Web 2.0 and its implications for the military. In J. Phahlamohlaka, L. Leenen, N. Veerasmay, M. Modise, & R. van Heerden (Eds.), Workshop on the uses of ICT in warfare and the safeguarding of peace (pp. 50–57). Bela-Bela, South Africa: Council for Scientific Research. Rathwell, K. J. & Peterson, G. D. (2012). Connecting Social Networks with Ecosystem Reputation in Social Media: A Dynamic Structural Model. Journal of Management Information Systems, 29, 41-75. Schoemaker, E. (2013). (WP1278). Media and fragile states. Wilton Park. https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WP1278-Report.pdf Schoemaker, E. & Stremlau, N. (2014) Media and conflict: An assessment of the evidence. Progress in Development Studies, 14(2), 181–195. Smyth, T. & Best, M. L. (2013). Tweet to Trust: Social Media and Elections in West Africa. Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2013), Cape Town, South Africa.
Tamine, L., Soulier, L., Paris, F., Jabeur, L., Ben, Amblard, F., Cedex, T. & Roth, C. (2016). Social Media-Based Collaborative Information Access: Analysis of Online Crisis-Related Twitter Conversations. Halifax, NS, Canada, 16, 159–168. Social Anthropology, 3(2), 451-459. Tang, Q., GU, B. & Whinston, A. B. (2012). Content Contribution for Revenue Sharing and Reputation in Social Media: A Dynamic Structural Model. Journal of Management Information Systems, 29 (2), 41-76. TEEB. (2010). The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Mainstreaming the Services for Watershed Governance: A Social-Ecological Network Perspective Highlights the Critical Role of Bridging Organizations. Ecology and Society, 17(2). Ushahidi. (2012). Deployments. Retrieved from http://community.ushahidi.com/deployments USIP. (2011). The Impact of New Media on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management. United States institutes for Peace. https://www.usip.org/publications/2011/09/impact-new-media-peacebuilding-andconflict-management Vinson, J. (2011). Social networks become preferred lines of communication during Japan earthquake.WebProNews.com. Retrieved on October 30, 2016 from http://www.webpronews.com/japan-earthquake-social-networkin-2011-03 Walker, G. B. & Daniels, S. E. (1996). The Clinton administration, the Northwest Forest Conference, and conflict management: when talk and structure collide. Society and Natural Resources, 9, 77-91. Welch, J. R. Halford, S. & Weal, M. (2015). Conceptualizing the web for post-conflict governance building. Peacebuilding, 3(1), 58-74. World Bank. (2009). Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change. Environment Department. The World Bank.
Published
2018-09-14
How to Cite
Agbaeze, E. K., Onyinye, A. P., Joseph, O., & Solomon, O. (2018). Relationship between Social Media Collaboration and Ecosystem Management in Enugu State, Nigeria. Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 10(4(J), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i4(J).2411
Issue
Vol 10 No 4(J) (2018)
Section
Research Paper

Copyright (c) 2018 Emmanuel K Agbaeze, Ajoku P.P. Onyinye, Obamen Joseph, Omonona Solomon

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Author (s) should affirm that the material has not been published previously. It has not been submitted and it is not under consideration by any other journal. At the same time author (s) need to execute a publication permission agreement to assume the responsibility of the submitted content and any omissions and errors therein. After submission of a revised paper in the light of suggestions of the reviewers, editorial team edits and formats manuscripts to bring uniformity and standardization in published material.

This work will be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) and under condition of the license, users are free to read, copy, remix, transform, redistribute, download, print, search or link to the full texts of articles and even build upon their work as long as they credit the author for the original work. Moreover, as per journal policy author (s) hold and retain copyrights without any restrictions.