Introduction Human communication, from age to age, is shaped by the predominant technological model of that age. From the Stone Age when communication was largely face-to-face, oral culture held sway as the means of communication. Each indigenous community in every nation has its traditional or local means of communication that is known to them. Indigenous communication modes include: the folklore, songs, dance, artifacts, idiophones and other basic local resources that are used to share meanings. What is obtainable in one community may not easily be found in another community; hence each group employs its own specific mode or channels of communication. The emergence of the print age, following Gutenberg's printing press, gave birth to the printed word which changed communication landscape from oral culture to reading culture, and the print media flourished. However, the emergence of the broadcast media gave rise to the electronic culture where audiovisual communication between and among people of different nations and regions of the world became swifter that distance was no longer a barrier for people in different parts of the world to share ideas. This development so fascinated humanity that Marshall McLuhan postulated that the world has become a global village setting where everyone can interact closely with one another (Mcluhan, 1964). Today, information and communication technology has advanced more that the world is in the digital age where communication has become more interactive, speedier, and more democratic in what is widely referred to as the digital culture. What these developments imply is that the process of human communication has continued to advance and transform with the evolving technology of each age. The 21 st century world has been aptly described as the information age where the global citizens yearn for information, and also access information from a variety of digital media platforms at their own time and in their own way. People are largely influenced by the variety of digital media technologies that are available to them. Digital Technology, according to Miller (2011) represents information in numerical numbers as Web 2.0 in a modifiable and compressible format. The emergence of digital technology, powered by the internet has thrown up a
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