Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- Introduction

The emerging possibilities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), as central organising principles of contemporary society, have been astonishing in their revolutionary bearings. Schwab (2017) had reasoned that emergent communication technologies will continue to impact the human experience beyond our current realities. Amplifying the rational voices of Giddens and Sutton (2013) and implicitly Castells (2009, 2015), I (Ibietan, 2023) had documented that the driving force of modern innovation is not just the technology. Modern communication is a product of the interface of technology and the human agency. In other words, the notion of the digital economy and other signposts of the revolutionary uptake ...