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Online Journalism And The New Media; Implications For Man¡¦S Social Development

INTRODUCTION
The new media announces a new period of media development in the world over, it is the one that preaches the significance of new communications technologies. The new media is not just a kind of information technology but also part and parcel of the social being of man in this modern society.
At the threshold of this fairly new millennium (2000 A.D.), there was a sporadic turn-around in the existing branches of the global media. This catapulted the world into a new information order that forcefully attempted to erode the conventional media. This turn-around made the traditional media¡¦s dictators and gatekeepers to loose their hold. The sub ¡V editors, and editors who control what comes into the news, and by implication, what the people are being exposed to, could no longer reserve the right. This is because the coming of the new media has brought with it another means of exposing people to media information without necessary passing such information through the control of the editors; thereby creating a world in which men could access the material of his choice, when he wanted it, and no longer at the mercy of the gatekeepers.
Through the Internet ¡V induced worldwide web (www), media information are provided in total detail. The Internet has provided a large amount of news items that people can have access to freely.
This internet-induced journalism, vis-a- vis; online journalism is the concern of this paper. The paper sees online journalism as a product of the new media and seeks to point out the implications of this latest communication trend on the social lives of man in this contemporary society. Specifically, the paper elucidates on Internet addiction and proliferation of illegitimate journalism as part of the implications of the new media. The paper is structured into the following subheads for easy understanding:

ľ Introduction
ľ Contextual definition of key concepts to wit;
„« Online journalism
„« New media
„« Internet...