Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity

Journalism education is a unique field of study under a liberty of social science because it works in context. The surrounding society gives a lot of impact on how journalism has been practiced and educated. However, there are not many studies on journalism education that focuses on the elements of...

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Main Authors:	Norizah Aripin, Awan Ismail, Norhafezah Yusof, Rizalawati Ismail
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Media dan Komunikasi, Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/1/V31_2_20.pdf

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spelling	ukm-100192017-01-23T09:37:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/ Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity Norizah Aripin, Awan Ismail, Norhafezah Yusof, Rizalawati Ismail, Journalism education is a unique field of study under a liberty of social science because it works in context. The surrounding society gives a lot of impact on how journalism has been practiced and educated. However, there are not many studies on journalism education that focuses on the elements of its society (i.e. gender, ethnic, religion, class, etc.), what more studies from the students’ perspectives. Therefore, this study attempts to fill the gap by having students of journalism as its samples. This article presents an extract from a huge study on journalism education in Malaysia. It studies the journalism students’ perceptions and expectations of journalism education in Malaysia and identifies whether different ethnics in Malaysia make any differences in their perceptions and expectations. Using quantitative methodology, 187 sets of survey questionnaires were collected from Malaysian journalism students who are studying at public universities in Malaysia. The result shows significant differences in terms of good journalism practice, news gathering skills and news production skills between three main ethnics of Malaysian journalism students. Pusat Pengajian Media dan Komunikasi, Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/1/V31_2_20.pdf Norizah Aripin, and Awan Ismail, and Norhafezah Yusof, and Rizalawati Ismail, (2015) Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 31 (2). pp. 323-340. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom/journal/volumes/volume31-2-2015.html
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description	Journalism education is a unique field of study under a liberty of social science because it works in context. The surrounding society gives a lot of impact on how journalism has been practiced and educated. However, there are not many studies on journalism education that focuses on the elements of its society (i.e. gender, ethnic, religion, class, etc.), what more studies from the students’ perspectives. Therefore, this study attempts to fill the gap by having students of journalism as its samples. This article presents an extract from a huge study on journalism education in Malaysia. It studies the journalism students’ perceptions and expectations of journalism education in Malaysia and identifies whether different ethnics in Malaysia make any differences in their perceptions and expectations. Using quantitative methodology, 187 sets of survey questionnaires were collected from Malaysian journalism students who are studying at public universities in Malaysia. The result shows significant differences in terms of good journalism practice, news gathering skills and news production skills between three main ethnics of Malaysian journalism students.
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author	Norizah Aripin, Awan Ismail, Norhafezah Yusof, Rizalawati Ismail,
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author_facet	Norizah Aripin, Awan Ismail, Norhafezah Yusof, Rizalawati Ismail,
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title	Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
title_short	Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
title_full	Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
title_fullStr	Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
title_full_unstemmed	Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
title_sort	shaping the journalism education studies in malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Media dan Komunikasi, Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2015
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10019/1/V31_2_20.pdf
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Shaping the journalism education studies in Malaysia: the effects from the study on ethnicity

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