Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia

This study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diasporas to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today’s globalized wo...

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Main Authors:	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode, Wok, Saodah, Haque, Md. Shahidul
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	H61.8 Communication of information
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/1/AMIC.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/4/AMIC_abstract.pdf

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spelling	iium-399702015-09-14T00:49:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/ Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah Haque, Md. Shahidul H61.8 Communication of information This study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diasporas to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today’s globalized world, the paper explored how homeland online newspapers connected the diasporas with Nigerian political transition. By content analyzing three major Nigerian online newspapers, the Daily Trust, the Punch, and the Vanguard, the paper concentrated on the supply side of information to Nigerians in diasporas, thus inundating them with what to think and how to think about the election and the candidates. Beyond presenting the key issues and candidates’ attributes covered in the online newspapers (the predictor variable in agenda-setting study) during the presidential election, this study found that Nigerian online newspapers prioritised election issues and candidates’ attributes differently for the main contenders in the election. The paper thus challenged the Nigerian media to consider their diasporic audience in their news production and distribution, particularly in the light of increasing agitations for direct political participation among Nigerians in diaspora. 2013-07-04 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/1/AMIC.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/4/AMIC_abstract.pdf Mustapha, Lambe Kayode and Wok, Saodah and Haque, Md. Shahidul (2013) Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia. In: The 22nd Annual Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) Conference , 4th-7th July 2013, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Unpublished) http://amic.org.sg/conference/AMIC2013/home.htm
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spellingShingle	H61.8 Communication of information Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah Haque, Md. Shahidul Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
description	This study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diasporas to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today’s globalized world, the paper explored how homeland online newspapers connected the diasporas with Nigerian political transition. By content analyzing three major Nigerian online newspapers, the Daily Trust, the Punch, and the Vanguard, the paper concentrated on the supply side of information to Nigerians in diasporas, thus inundating them with what to think and how to think about the election and the candidates. Beyond presenting the key issues and candidates’ attributes covered in the online newspapers (the predictor variable in agenda-setting study) during the presidential election, this study found that Nigerian online newspapers prioritised election issues and candidates’ attributes differently for the main contenders in the election. The paper thus challenged the Nigerian media to consider their diasporic audience in their news production and distribution, particularly in the light of increasing agitations for direct political participation among Nigerians in diaspora.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah Haque, Md. Shahidul
author_facet	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode Wok, Saodah Haque, Md. Shahidul
author_sort	Mustapha, Lambe Kayode
title	Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
title_short	Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
title_full	Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
title_fullStr	Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia
title_sort	online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic nigerians during the 2011 nigerian presidential election: a perspective from malaysia
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/1/AMIC.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/4/AMIC_abstract.pdf
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Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia

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