CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1
Background to the study
Technology
has revolutionized all facets of communication during the past decades. Access
to the people and information practically anywhere in the world has been
quicker, cheaper and easier.
Awake
(2002), the dynamic nature of the 2ls century and more centuries to come rests
on technological revolution. No wonder, Marshall Mcluhan, a Canadian scholar in
1964 propounded the concept of “Global Village” regarding the entire global as
having the potentials of becoming a global community where information and news
about anywhere in the world would be readily available for anyone’s consumption
in any part of the world.
Without
mincing worlds, the impact of International Network (Internet) in achieving
this feat cannot be underestimated. Research has shown that some Three hundred
thousand (300,000) new users get connected to the internet every week. In 1999,
it was estimated that seven hundred million (700,000,000) people were expected
to come online by the year 2001. Awake (Op cit).
Meanwhile,
there are presently over one billion computers connected worldwide. That come to
tell us the enormity and wide range of opportunities abound in accessing news
and information via the internet. Through the internet super high way, it is
now possible for a person to live in Nigeria, work in Japan, school in the
United state of America, attend meetings in Australia, bank in the United
Kingdom and shop in Europe or any other part of world on daily basis (NACETEM)
The contribution of the internet to every facet of human endeavour does not
leave any stone unturned but cut across every little thing that we suggest among which are banking, health, education,
economy and finance governance just to mention a few.
Newspaper,
our focus in this study is not an exemption in the dynamism Information
Technology (I T) has brought to the human race. The Oxford Advance Learner’ s
Dictionary (2005) simply defines newspaper as “a set of large printed sheets of
paper containing news, articles, advertisement .etc. and published every day or
every week. In relation to the above definition it could be safely said that
online newspapers are the publications of print media (Newspapers) that are
made available on the internet which can be easily passed across the world.
Super
High Way
for near and far, national and international audience. Online Newspaper can be
considered as a major advancement in communication that has led to a high
quality and improved ways.
Newspapers are recognized as print media
in communication. Unarguably, the internet is traceably gaining acceptance in
online newspaper in more centuries.
Thus,
a newspaper is a periodic publication containing reports of latest happening,
it is bound and folded but not usually stapled. The information technology
revolution, which has turned the entire universe to a global village is now at
the heart of communication.
Online Newspapers is made possible as a result
of interconnection of computers worldwide. The I T revolution has not only
helped in print media but also contributed immensely to the other communication
endeavours.
The
world is changing day by day. Also, human communication devices and processes
are not static.
Before
the advent of print technology, information of news is by passing and
dissemination, each community has its own way of passing information to its
members that is, the traditional communication through Obas, chief with the use
of Oba’s message town crier. The message source is the traditional rulers the
message is sent through the town crier to the people to inform them of an
important event. Not all town criers make use of gong, bell but some use drum
or speech etc. More often than not this message is been disseminated in the
market place because several people will be there to listen to the message.
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