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The controversy surrounding the potential influence of globalization and the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools on indigenous cultures continues to generate heated arguments. This is partly because cultural debates always raise emotions. Perhaps, this controversy may have been based on the experience of other cultures other than Nigeria. This study, which is presented in this book, therefore, evaluated the perception of Nigerian media professionals on the issue of globalization and its impact on indigenous cultures. The study used technological determinism,...

Indigenous Societies and Cultural Globalization in the 21st Century is a book of readings which raises some fundamental questions in its attempt to rethink the basic debates in media/cultural studies. The book tackles the issues related to cultural globalization and the potential influence of ICT on the culture of indigenous societies and people from a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted approach. One of the imports of this book will be to address the question of: whose culture; whose world is being globalized? Are indigenous societies at risk of extinction in the age of globalization? This...