Abstract: This study focuses on whatsApp and information sharing showcasing its prospects, challenges based on review of literature by scholars. Anchored on network society and media convergence theory that views everyone as nodes in a network; relationship depends essentially happenings in media-centered communication space and the ability of social actors, in various contexts, to act on programs, modifying them in the sense of their interests. This dynamic landscape of continuous, diversified witnessing and reporting does not represent a crisis in journalism according to scholars, but rather, an explosion of it. The profession seems to be more alive than ever and going through a multiplication of both forms and content at amazing speed and all the actors involved seem to benefit in one way or the other.
Keywords: WhatsApp, Information sharing, prospects and Challenges, Media-centered communication space.
Title: WhatsApp and Information Sharing: Prospect and Challenges
Author: Kehinde Funmilayo Mefolere
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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