Impact Of Computer On The Practice Of Journalism

Impact Of Computer On The Practice Of Journalism

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the Study

Journalism is the disquisition and reporting of events, issues and trends to broad substantiation. Though there are numerous variations of journalism, the idea is to inform the intended substantiation about motifs ranging from government and business association to artistic aspect of the society similar as art and talkie.

In ultramodern society, news media have come the principal inventories of information and opinion about publics ’ affairs, but the part and status of journalism along with other forms of mass media are witnessing changes performing from the internet.

In media association setup, the ICTs acts as an information creator, checker, regulator, processor, filing system and report medication system. It performs the work of news process at high speed, the kind of repetitious, simple pastoral processes and plates which have long been carried out by mortal beings and indeed some of those which operation would have carried out.

ICTs can be defined as an electronic machines that can store, organize and find information, do computations and control other machines.

The idea of ICTs started with the primitive people. For illustration, the growers used to count the number of stacks cultivated with pebbles and succulent stems. This is a form of ICTs because the abetting of counting from this conception. In addition, the four figure table used in mathematics is a computer, it’s aid that helps in counting. Our old people now still keep memory of events by using watercolor to put strokes on the wall in their colorful house and make reference to those strokes when the need arises.

still, because of rapid-fire technological development in the world, ICTs has taken a new dimension in the form of electronics. In this spurt age, effects have changed for better in the operation of ICTs to journalism with its tools which allows for better effectiveness and productivity of news with the aid of ICTs diffuses through journalism more fleetly and further fully than other new technologies.

However its influence has been felt around the globe, the penetration of ICTs into journalism has presented a challenge for journalism preceptors.

Statement of the Problem

It’s generally accepted that one of the major problems that are hindering effectiveness of broadcast in utmost developing countries like Nigeria is the absence of effective means of gathering and propagating information.

occasionally, similar information is in bits and noway linked and collected together under one pool. The haphazard information would be hard to pierce indeed for intelligencer without effective and sufficient knowledge and operation of computer.

serve it to say that ICTs have brought great enhancement to both mortal and artificial conditioning similar as the media in the area of information gathering and news dispersion. While some association use in their association others do not. Indeed intelligencers that are anticipated to make effective use of ICT are lacking in some aspects, while some aren’t ICTs knowledgeable.

This study thus sought to find the influence of ICTs on the work performance of intelligencers in AKBC Radio and Television.