Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia

The 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...

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Main Authors:	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode, Wok, Saodah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	H61.8 Communication of information
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/1/ACSSC_%28E%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/4/Tentative_Program.pdf

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spelling	iium-399692015-03-02T07:11:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/ Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah H61.8 Communication of information The 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. 2013-11-21 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/1/ACSSC_%28E%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/4/Tentative_Program.pdf Mustapha, Lambe Kayode and Wok, Saodah (2013) Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia. In: 1st Annual Conference on Social Studies, Communication, and Education, November 21-23, 2013, Okinawa, Japan. (Unpublished) http://www.acssc.org/
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spellingShingle	H61.8 Communication of information Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
description	The 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.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah
author_facet	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah
author_sort	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
title	Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
title_short	Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
title_full	Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia
title_sort	setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic nigerians in malaysia
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/1/ACSSC_%28E%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39969/4/Tentative_Program.pdf
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Setting agenda abroad: exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia

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