Our study examined Undergraduate students' awareness of the health implications associated with the use of screen devices. We sought to determine the extent to which university students in Southeast Nigeria expose themselves to electronic screen-based devices; the possible factors influencing the students' level of exposure to the devices; ascertain the possible health implications associated with the students' exposure to the devices; establish the undergraduate students' level of awareness of health implications associated with exposure to screen-based devices; and assess the students' views on ways the health implications could be curtailed. A mixed research approach was adopted for the study. Findings generally indicate that university students in Southeast Nigeria spend amazing amount of time on 'screen-based devices' (computers, phones, video games, television), which have become an essential part of their life. Also, these students have a high level of awareness of the possible health implications associated with the use of screen-based devices, as most of them claim to have experienced one form of health challenge or another in the course of using the devices. Therefore the study recommended that relevant government agencies and Non Governmental Organizations as well as the media should educate people in order to create awareness on certain precautionary measures users of screen-based devices need to take to reduce the health risks they may likely face in the cause of utilizing screen-based devices.

This research is about the relationship between Nigerian home videos production, women and cultural ideologies. It is general agreed that there is a sexist problem which has dominated the entire mass media. The study researches that an impact assessment of the images of women in Nigerian home videos is designed to examine the sway Nigerian home videos portrayal of women have on women's position and status in the society. The study also investigates the influence of home videos on women's and girl's perception of themselves and its effect on their development potentials. With 300 respondents drawn from a select range of home videos viewers, a survey research was designed using Awka-urban, Capital of Anambra State, Nigeria as the research area and finds a negative perception of women as regards their image portrayal in the home videos by the viewers. However, this image portrayal has a negative effect on the development potentials of women and that of girl child and as well reflects on how women are seen and treated in Nigerian society.

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