The Journalist as a Change Agent for Rational Use of Electrical Energy in Beninese Public Administrations

Dokpo Alain Junior

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The Journalist as a Change Agent for Rational Use of Electrical Energy in Beninese Public Administrations

Dokpo Alain Junior

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Received: 21 August 2022 Accepted: 14 September 2022 Published: 29 September 2022

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This research paper focuses on the issue of energy efficiency in Beninese public administrations which are viewed as pockets of waste of electrical energy. The user-doesn’t pay behavior developed by some administrative staff often result in overrunning the budget’s voted appropriations as regards energy expenditure. As a result, the government doesn’t always succeed in paying its electricity bills on time. To reverse the trend, to reduce the government’s electricity bills, the journalist, in accordance with his/ her mission to inform, educate and entertain has a part to play. For that purpose, the journalist himself/herself must be informed about energy efficiency to grasp not only its semantic content but above all the kind of small actions which help save energy and money. Noting that the theme of energy efficiency is less commonly addressed by the Beninese journalists in the print media as well as in the audiovisual media, we have carried out two surveys by questionnaires in Abomey-Calavi and Cotonou, two neighboring cities. The former with ninety-four (94) administrative staff and the latter with seventy-four (74) Beninese journalists intervening in the Society and Environment Desks responsible for the issue of energy efficiency. The findings are striking: 89,75% of the administrative staff set the air conditioner in their office at 16°C instead of 24°C or 25°C; consuming more electrical energy as a result. Regarding the journalists, our findings show that the theme of energy efficiency is addressed only during the implementation phases of energy efficiency-related projects. The journalistic genres they use are journalistic accounts, reporting of events, and talk shows.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20220803.12
Page(s)	42-48
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Energy, Public Administrations, Waste, Journalists, Awareness

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Dokpo Alain Junior. The Journalist as a Change Agent for Rational Use of Electrical Energy in Beninese Public Administrations. Commun. Linguist. Stud. 2022, 8(3), 42-48. doi: 10.11648/j.cls.20220803.12

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National School of Information and Communication Science and Technology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Godomey, Republic of Benin

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