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Perceived credibility and consumption of homeland news among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
No full textOnline newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials among Nigerian students in Malaysia
No full textThe election time in any nation is a period for anxieties and expectations. It is also a period of heightened tripartite relationships between the candidates, the electorate and the media. While the citizens within the country rely mainly on the traditional media for information about election issues and candidates’ attributes, nations’ foreign residents bank on online versions of the homeland traditional media, particularly online newspapers. Although the impacts of traditional and new media on political participation within nations’ polity have received tremendous attention of scholars, little consideration has been accorded media use and political behaviour of foreign resident citizens whose transnational influence is becoming awesome in the contemporary time. Using cross-sectional survey design, this study samples Nigerian students in Malaysia higher learning institutions (N=312) with a view to examine the influence of online newspapers use on their political participation potentials in their homeland politics. Findings reveal weak but positive and significant correlations between online newspapers use and political interest on the one hand and online newspapers use and political participation on the other. The results thus show that reading online newspapers could be one of many factors cuing diasporic citizens to their homeland political development
Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
No full textThis study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web
beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diaspora to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today's globalized world, the paper explored how homeland online newspapers connected the diaspora with Nigerian
political transition. By content analyzing three major Nigerian online newspapers, the Daily Trust, the Punch, and the Vanguard, the paper concentrated on the supply side of information to Nigerians in diaspora, thus inundating them with what to think and how to think about the election and the candidates. Beyond presenting the key issues and candidates' attributes covered in the online newspapers (the predictor variable in agenda-setting study) during the presidential election, this study found that Nigerian online newspapers prioritized
election issues and candidates' attributes differently for the main contenders in the election. The paper thus challenged the Nigerian media to consider their diasporic audience in their news production and distribution, particularly in the light of increasing agitations for
direct political participation among Nigerians in diaspora
Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
No full textThe election time in any nation is a period for anxieties and expectations. It is also a period of heightened tripartite relationships between the candidates, the electorate and the media. While the citizens within the country rely mainly on the traditional media for information about election issues and candidates’ attributes, nations’ foreign residents bank on online versions of the homeland traditional media, particularly online newspapers. Although the impacts of traditional
and new media on political participation within nations’ polity have received tremendous attention of scholars, little consideration has been accorded media use and political behaviour of foreign resident citizens whose transnational influence is becoming awesome in the contemporary time. Using cross-sectional survey design, this study samples Nigerian students in Malaysia higher learning institutions (N=312) with a view to examine the influence of online newspapers use on their political participation potentials in their homeland politics. Findings reveal weak but positive and significant correlations between online newspapers use and political
interest on the one hand and online newspapers use and political participation on the other. The results thus show that reading online newspapers could be one of many factors cuing diasporic citizens to their homeland political development
Perceived credibility and consumption of homeland news among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
Get PDFThe increasing migration, powered by advanced transportation, information and communication technologies, has created huge diasporic communities around the globe. Through push and pull forces, citizens of countries across the world have migrated from their homelands to near and far locations in search of better socio-political and economic opportunities and possibilities. In their new milieu, this corps of transnational migrants maintained close attachment with their countries of origin via a plethora of cyber-powered homeland communication and media artifacts. The migration of homeland traditional print and electronic media to the Internet, however, offers news avenues for migrants’ consumption of unadulterated news about events happening in their countries. While migrants’ homeland media consumption has received tremendous attentions among scholars, little concern has been accorded factors that predict the forms and types of homeland media attracting migrants’ attention. This study explores the relationship between perceived credibility and consumption of news from the online newspapers among Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=321). Findings reveal differential perceptions of three Nigerian online newspapers in terms of story depth, fairness, accuracy and trustworthiness. Similarly, perceived credibility of each online newspaper relates to reading the newspapers the most among the respondents. The study thus offers practical implications of perceived credibility of homeland newspapers for increased readership among diasporic audience who could be valuable patrons of and contributors to homeland journalistic products
Exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
Get PDFThe increasing transnational migration of people and availability of homeland newspapers on the web have stimulated interest in the understanding of the use and effects of homeland media on a nation’s foreign residents. This study explores the relationship between the agenda covered in three Nigerian online newspapers (N=260) and how they were perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=350) during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Specifically, the issues in online newspapers and their location (homepage and index) and length were compared with the issues perceived as being important by Nigerian students in Malaysia. Comparing content analysis data with survey responses, the findings revealed a modest but plausible support for the agenda-setting potential of the online newspapers. In view of the established correspondence between issues that are salient in the news and issues perceived by the readers, the study establishes the importance of homeland online media to political cognitions and actions among diasporic Nigerians. It also suggests the need to explore other cues in the online newspapers capable of raising the salience of issues in the perceptions of the Nigerian diaspora
Exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
Get PDFThe increasing transnational migration of people and availability of homeland newspapers on the web have stimulated interest in the understanding of the use and effects of homeland media on a nation’s foreign residents. This study explores the relationship between the agenda covered in three Nigerian online newspapers (N=260) and how they were perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=350) during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Specifically, the issues in online newspapers and their location (homepage and index) and length were compared with the issues perceived as being important by Nigerian students in Malaysia. Comparing content analysis data with survey responses, the findings revealed a modest but plausible support for the agenda-setting potential of the online newspapers. In view of the established correspondence between issues that are salient in the news and issues perceived by the readers, the study establishes the importance of homeland online media to political cognitions and actions among diasporic Nigerians. It also suggests the need to explore other cues in the online newspapers capable of raising the salience of issues in the perceptions of the Nigerian diaspora
Volatile but cue-laden: measuring agenda-setting in the online newspaper environment
No full textAfter more than four decades of charting a paradigmatic direction in media effects
research, agenda-setting has witnessed and survived enormous challenges to its
main thesis. Despite the unending efforts of scholars to explicate the theoretical and
logical mechanisms of the theory, the ever dynamic milieu in which agenda-setting
effects is being explored, creates additional research problems necessitates further
exploration. The arrival of new media and the subsequent migration of legacy media
into the virtual realm, is another instance of the challenges of agenda-setting as a
theory that is capable of unpacking media effects. While some scholars believe in
the efficacy of agenda-setting in the new media environments, others argue along
an attenuation perspective. Although a number of empirical approaches have been
deployed to establish the continual heuristic value of agenda-setting in the age of
new media, little, if any, attempt has been made to synthesise the findings into a
coherent body. This review provides clues on the salient-directing cues in online
newspapers on the one hand, and the challenges of measuring agenda-setting effects
of online newspapers on the other hand
Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
Get PDFThe increasing transnational migration of people and availability of homeland newspapers on the web have stimulated interest in the understanding of the use and effects of homeland media on nations’ foreign residents. This study explored the relationship between agenda of issues covered in Nigerian online newspapers and the agenda of issues perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Specifically, the overall issues agenda in the online newspapers, agenda of issues in news story location (homepage and index), and agenda of issues in news story length (long and short) were compared with the agenda of important issues perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia. With hypotheses that are rooted in salience correspondence envisaged by the agenda setting research, the study combined data from a content analysis of three Nigerian online newspapers and a survey of Nigerian students in Malaysian institutions of higher learning. Findings revealed a modest but plausible support for the agenda-setting potential of the online newspapers and suggested the need to explore other cues in the online newspapers that are capable of raising the salience of issues in the diasporic public perceptions
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