Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia

Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia

The 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 issue...

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Main Authors: Mustapha, Lambe Kayode, Wok, Saodah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of social sciences and humanities, UKM 2014
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H61.8 Communication of information
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spelling iium-405702018-05-24T03:52:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40570/ Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah H61.8 Communication of information The 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. Faculty of social sciences and humanities, UKM 2014-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40570/1/Mustapha_%26_Saodah_%282014%29.pdf Mustapha, Lambe Kayode and Wok, Saodah (2014) Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia. e-Bangi: Journal of Social Science and Humanities , 9 (2). pp. 74-90. ISSN 1823-884x http://www.ukm.my/e-bangi/
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Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
Wok, Saodah
Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
description The 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.
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author Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
Wok, Saodah
author_facet Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
Wok, Saodah
author_sort Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
title Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
title_short Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
title_full Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
title_fullStr Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the Nigerian students in Malaysia
title_sort online newspapers use and homeland political participation potentials of the nigerian students in malaysia
publisher Faculty of social sciences and humanities, UKM
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/40570/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40570/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40570/1/Mustapha_%26_Saodah_%282014%29.pdf
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