Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia

Social media are popular among youth for sharing information. This study tries to explore the popularity of the social media sites, the level of use of the social media sites, the types of information-sharing activities involved on the social media sites, to compare youth of various background in re...

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Main Authors:	Wok, Saodah, Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi, Misman, Norealyna
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	David Publishing Company 2012
Subjects:	HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/1/Social_Media_Use_for_Information-Sharing.pdf

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spelling	iium-311032014-12-27T02:37:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/ Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia Wok, Saodah Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi Misman, Norealyna HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social media are popular among youth for sharing information. This study tries to explore the popularity of the social media sites, the level of use of the social media sites, the types of information-sharing activities involved on the social media sites, to compare youth of various background in relation to information-sharing activities, and to analyze the relationship between the level of social media use and the information-sharing activities among youth. This study employs a quantitative research design, using survey method with questionnaire as the research instrument used for data collection. In this study, youth aged between 17-40 years old nationwide were surveyed. The study was developed based on the user and gratification theory (Blumler & Katz, 1974). Findings showed that youth always (five to seven days per week) use social media to share information including personal information. Results also showed that youth used the social media more for sharing negatively-oriented information compared to the positively-oriented information. Although there were more items on the positively-oriented information-sharing activities but more youth spent their time on the negatively-oriented information-sharing activities. The results are supported by a strong relationship between frequency of use and the negatively-oriented information-sharing activities. David Publishing Company 2012-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/1/Social_Media_Use_for_Information-Sharing.pdf Wok, Saodah and Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi and Misman, Norealyna (2012) Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia. Journalism and Mass Communication, 2 (11). pp. 1029-1047. ISSN 2160-6579 http://www.davidpublishing.org/show.html?10466
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spellingShingle	HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Wok, Saodah Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi Misman, Norealyna Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
description	Social media are popular among youth for sharing information. This study tries to explore the popularity of the social media sites, the level of use of the social media sites, the types of information-sharing activities involved on the social media sites, to compare youth of various background in relation to information-sharing activities, and to analyze the relationship between the level of social media use and the information-sharing activities among youth. This study employs a quantitative research design, using survey method with questionnaire as the research instrument used for data collection. In this study, youth aged between 17-40 years old nationwide were surveyed. The study was developed based on the user and gratification theory (Blumler & Katz, 1974). Findings showed that youth always (five to seven days per week) use social media to share information including personal information. Results also showed that youth used the social media more for sharing negatively-oriented information compared to the positively-oriented information. Although there were more items on the positively-oriented information-sharing activities but more youth spent their time on the negatively-oriented information-sharing activities. The results are supported by a strong relationship between frequency of use and the negatively-oriented information-sharing activities.
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author	Wok, Saodah Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi Misman, Norealyna
author_facet	Wok, Saodah Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi Misman, Norealyna
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title	Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
title_short	Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
title_full	Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia
title_sort	social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in malaysia
publisher	David Publishing Company
publishDate	2012
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/31103/1/Social_Media_Use_for_Information-Sharing.pdf
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Social media use for information-sharing activities among youth in Malaysia

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