The Creative Planning Strategy and the Question of Social Advertising in Nigeriaas Democracy
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creative planning, social advertising and democracy
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This paper questions the efficacy of social adverts in promoting Nigeria s democracy and proposes creative planning as a key strategy for designing effective media messages for effective democratic principles Social advertising pleads a course through advocacy social mobilization or behavior change communication The business of democracy is to get the people involved in the business of leadership Many media messages created to inform and educate the citizenry under democratic set-ups in Nigeria have been ineffective with regards to changing behavior of the citizens towards a particular course The creative planning strategy under consideration in this paper involves the steps in the creation of media messages with focus on variables such as discourse dramatic logic or arguments signs and significations and the audience Basic questions in this paper include Why are social adverts used as tools in promoting democratic values Are the social adverts used in Nigeria predicated on the creative planning strategy To what extent have the social adverts contributed to the promotion of democratic principles in Nigeria The paper examines some advertising theories as applied to message development and questions the basis for creating or designing most media messages in promoting democratic values in Nigeria The methodology adopted in this paper is analysis and recommendations will be based on the findings
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