A Comparative Study on the Effect of News Paper and Television on Creating Social Awareness among the Students

‘A comparative study on the effect of Newspaper and Television on creating social awareness among the students with particular reference to C.K.B College Teok.’ News paper and television are two significant mass media of social awareness. Previously News papers played greater role but gradually its influences has been declined as the spread of Television services. Television has got greater popularity among the youths because it provides updated information about social phenomenon. In spite of such popularity of Television, role of news paper cannot be under estimated. News paper, for many people, is something basic requirement like morning’s cup of tea. A habitual reader of news paper eagerly waits for the paper to come. Both the media i.e. news paper and T.V have different tastes and for this nothing can be said so easily which out of these two has more significant contribution towards creation of social awareness. In this paper the researcher is trying to analyze the relative importance of newspaper and television on creation of social awareness statistically. For these two sampled groups of 20 students each representing habitual newspaper reader and television watcher has been selected. The awareness has been measured by questionnaire developed by the investigator himself.