Twitter as one of the medium in spreading heritage news toward society / Nur Izzatul Alya Zulkernai ... [et al.]

Based on the current technology of media, people are usually use new media like twitter website to update any current issues or event regarding with heritage to be shared that information with society by using this kind of medium. This situation shows, twitter contains rich information because the data is posted especially about heritage in that time can be quite useful knowledge about the ground situation of the topic. Unlike traditional media, this new media are one of the social media in spreading heritage towards society in faster way.
The research objectives are:
• To study the frequency of society that respond towards the news spread by twitter.
• To investigate the legitimacy of the news spread on twitter.
• To determine the consequences of the news spread on twitter.

The approach that will be used by the researcher for this research is qualitative approach. In collecting data collection strategy, the researcher will be using purposive sampling to help researcher to find out the result for the research that conducted. Second, In- depth interview is also one of the method of research that applied in qualitative research where the researcher will conduct an interview with the selected respondent. For data analysis, the researcher uses thematic data analysis that required the researcher to identify a limited number of themes which adequately reflect researcher textual data. For unit of analysis, there are three basic categories to identify the unit of analysis on a research are individuals, groups and organizations.
Currently, everything in a world is using online. That is why "Twitter as one of the medium in spreading heritage towards society" is more efficient and faster ways than traditional media. Twitter plays an important role as a medium to create a new environment towards society in creating broader selection in spreading heritage. From this research, it may give a lot benefits towards the education for students from Malaysia and outsides this country as their reference.