A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) of the Mzumbe University
This is a research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an award of the bachelor of laws (LL.B) degree of the Mzumbe University, Mbeya Campus Collage. The main objective of the research was to assess the law on the extent of its effectiveness in preventing misuse of social media in Tanzania. The research was conducted at Tanga and Dar es Salaam regions in Tanzania. The methodology used was a combination of group discussion, interview and documentary review. These methods were used to collect data with population and sampling design random sampling technique in three groups of people government officials responsible in communication matters, social media users and other stakeholders. During the research the following was realized that, number of social media users are not aware of the law governing social media and other forms of communications, and every user has his own interpretation of the proper use of social media, some factors are pulled behind showing that the problem is furthermore contributed by the lack of awareness of many youth who are most social media users. This report is divided into five chapters, first chapter introduces the study and gives background to issues in concern under the research study, second chapter in on conceptual framework of the study, third chapter is on legal and institutional framework for the laws governing misuse of social media in Tanzania, the fourth chapter represents and analyses the results of the field work, lastly the final chapter presents the conclusions and recommendations from the research Basing on the findings of the study, this work makes the recommendation aimed at remedying the situation; that there must be provision of education to key stakeholders of social media before they sign up to those social networks, there must be improvement of techniques on identifying offenders, Lastly, war against misuse of social media does not involve the government and its agency only but it should involve the society and every user of social media as well as the key stakeholders of social media in order to overcome this problem.