Level of Internet Compliance and Usage in the Newsrooms of Broadcast Media in Nigeria.

Abstract

The emergence of Information Communication Technology with the adoption of Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) in 1996 has, to a greater extent, brought development to, and changed the face of newsrooms across the globe. The jinx of inability to meet deadlines has almost been broken by the availability of Information Communication Technologies. However, not much achievement has been recorded in the area of Internet culture, compliance and usage in the newsrooms of broadcast stations in Nigeria. Consequently, this research is an examination of the level of Internet compliance and usage in the newsrooms of Nigerian broadcast stations. The study concludes that though broadcast media practitioners in Nigeria are Internet compliant, the Internet facilities provided in the newsrooms of broadcast stations are inadequate.

Key Words: Internet, Compliance, usage, broadcast media, innovation diffusion, technology acceptance.