Abstract
The main objective of this paper was to identify the profile of Malaysian academicians international news viewing behaviours. This paper presents three different of level of viewing high, moderate and light and also present three different and news issues types ,namely, political, economic and cultural. From the data analysis, it is concluded that 69.3% of respondents reported exposure to international news in the range of one hour or less a day, 26.7% between 2 and 3 hours, and 4.0 % more than 3 hours a day. There was also a significant difference in international news viewing hours a day by Gender (χ2=11.559, p=.003 <.01). The females were the most (75.9%) exposed to international news followed by the male (61.2%) claimed they viewed international news one hour and less a day. The analysis revealed that political issue news were the most popular genre among Malaysian academicians with 60% claiming political issues.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Abdul Same’e, Somia UNSPECIFIED Yaacob, Mohammad UNSPECIFIED Muhammad, Mokhtar UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman > Women. Feminism P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > Journalism. The periodical press, etc. Press > Malaysia |
| Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Communication and Media Studies > Centre for Media and Information Warfare Studies (CMIWS) |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW) |
| UiTM Journal Collections: | UiTM Journals > Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW) |
| ISSN: | 2821-3394 |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Page Range: | pp. 29-45 |
| Keywords: | International news, Viewing behaviour, Issue type, Malaysian academicians |
| Date: | 30 October 2024 |
| URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/137482 |
