Communication Revolution and Social Change in Nigeria: Some Matters Arising
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2017
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Department of Sociology, Osun State University, Osogbo (Okuku Campus).
Abstract
It is difficult today to read a newspaper or watch the news without noticing the changes that
continually affect the world. The Middle East, Central America, Southern Africa and many other
countries demonstrate social transition and transformation in many dimensions. Information
revolution has come to transform the structure of many societies, particularly as they free the
human mind, open new vistas in knowledge and allow technologies to increasingly take on human
qualities. The impact of the development of the information society on a nation's development and
social change is now a question of discussion. It is against this background that this paper
examined communication revolution and social change in Nigeria. The paper concluded that new
communication technologies as tools for Nigeria's socio-economic transformation have been
drawn mainly from the experiences and exploits of western industrialized countries. In spite of the
little progress that Nigeria and Africa has made in the age of new communication technology,
many people still hold the fear that communication revolution has come with a lot of problems
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Change, Communication, Revolution, Technology
Citation
Muhammed, A. Y., Kadiri, K. K., Raji, A. & Oluyemi, A. J. (2017): Communication Revolution and Social Change in Nigeria: Some Matters Arising. Osun Sociological Review. 4(2); 199-208, Published by Department of Sociology, Osun State University, Osogbo (Okuku Campus).