CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
Internet is the worldwide system of interconnected
network of more than one computer with the ability to share and exchange files
and data from one place to another irrespective of geographical location and
time.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which
according to a great Canadian English Professor Marshall McLuhan ,described as
what has changed the world into a global village by compressing the world into
a single electronic room where information from nooks and crannies of the world
can be exploited and disseminated or exchanged within a twinkle of an eye.
Internet
is now a new way of gathering news, which offers maximum advantages to Nigerian
journalists. Internet has become an encyclopedia of almost all information in
the world and most of the information is gathered free unlike that of
subscription to news agencies and wire service before journalists can have
access to international news and other information globally.
The development of
technology most especially in this century has impact on every sphere of human
life to include mass media. This has changed the look of the existing media. Because
of this, the practice of journalism is no longer in the way of one-dimensional
flow of information rather it is interactive and the audience are now part of
the information gathering and information distribution. It should be noted that
information quality through the internet demands caution as it is questionable
since it lack the activities of the gatekeepers who can decide what information
to disseminate and what not to make available for the public.
Internet poses many
challenges on mass media because mass media is considered “spoon-feed” sources
of information, a one-way conversation where some media outlets or publishers
say “Here you go”, “This is it.” whereas, with the computer technology the
power has shifted to the people and the proliferation of information users and
audience generated content. It is now a two-way conversation.
Meanwhile, the new
media, which the internet is one, has gone along way in bringing information to
ones doorstep.
It is known fact
that journalist in Nigerian who want to report adequate information about the
widest topical issues will benefit from the service of the internet as source
of gathering information and making it possible for journalist to exchange
information.
The internet can
also help the Nigerian journalist to peak into the daily affairs of the public
without physical presence of journalist; it does reduces traveling and hotel
accommodation cost and stress.
Therefore, the
impact of the information and communication technology (internet) on journalists
cannot be over emphasizing for it’s an essential source where journalist gets
information at any time.
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