@article{1983:moemeke:sociocult, title = {Socio-Cultural Environment of Communication in Traditional Nigeria: An Ethnographie Exploration.}, year = {1983}, note = {Speaking at a development communication seminar in 1982, Wilbur Schramm raised a very pertinent question: What went wrong with development and the high hopes which the mass media appeared to offer in the early 1960s? In addition to providing a number of answers that have political, social and economic implications, the Professor- Emeritus, stressed upon what has been regarded as a fundamental flaw in the use of the mass media in development - the often-forgotten fact that modern media technologies, modes and models of communication are products of Western culture. and therefore have resulted from measures under very specific economic, social and cultural circumstances very different from those existing in countries into which the new media were introduced to help development. (...) }, journal = {Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)}, pages = {331--346}, author = {Moemeke, Andrew}, volume = {16}, number = {4} }