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) cited in Kur (2004), 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.