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Will mainstream media be relevant in this age?

Nancy Booker, Ph.D. Chairperson, Journalism and Communication Department Faculty of Media and Communication Multimedia University of Kenya

We are in the Information Age and the human race has never been exposed to so much information that in one day, an average person in a city is said to receive as much data as someone in the 15th century would encounter in a lifetime.

With the Information Age came the blogs which were personal websites where individuals could write articles or post pictures and videos on any topic, including their personal lives, on a regular basis.

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