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Item Exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia(International Islamic University Malaysia Press, 2015-06-30) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahThe 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 a nation’s foreign residents. This study explores the relationship between the agenda covered in three Nigerian online newspapers (N=260) and how they were perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=350) during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Specifically, the issues in online newspapers and their location (homepage and index) and length were compared with the issues perceived as being important by Nigerian students in Malaysia. Comparing content analysis data with survey responses, the findings revealed a modest but plausible support for the agenda-setting potential of the online newspapers. In view of the established correspondence between issues that are salient in the news and issues perceived by the readers, the study establishes the importance of homeland online media to political cognitions and actions among diasporic Nigerians. It also suggests the need to explore other cues in the online newspapers capable of raising the salience of issues in the perceptions of the Nigerian diaspora.Item Exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on perceptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia(IIUM Press, 2015-12-29) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahThe 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 a nation’s foreign residents. This study explores the relationship between the agenda covered in three Nigerian online newspapers (N=260) and how they were perceived by Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=350) during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Specifically, the issues in online newspapers and their location (homepage and index) and length were compared with the issues perceived as being important by Nigerian students in Malaysia. Comparing content analysis data with survey responses, the findings revealed a modest but plausible support for the agenda-setting potential of the online newspapers. In view of the established correspondence between issues that are salient in the news and issues perceived by the readers, the study establishes the importance of homeland online media to political cognitions and actions among diasporic Nigerians. It also suggests the need to explore other cues in the online newspapers capable of raising the salience of issues in the perceptions of the Nigerian diaspora. Keywords: 2011 Nigerian presidential election; agenda-setting; issues salience; Nigerian students in Malaysia; online newspapersItem Online Newspaper and Perceptions of Homeland Politics among Nigerian Students in Malaysia During the 2011 Nigerian Presidential Election(School of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kenbangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia)., 2015) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahThis study examines hoe Nigerians online newspapers shaped the perceptions of election issues and candidates’ attributes of Nigerian students in Malaysia during the 2011 Nigerian Presidential election. Based on the possibility of the online newspapers to set agenda of homeland politics for foreign resident citizens, the study examines the use of online newspapers among Nigerian students in Malaysia and the influence of online newspapers on their perceived election issues and candidates’ attributes. The study survey Nigerian students in Malaysian higher learning institutions within the Klang Valley (N=321) during Nigerian Presidential election in April 2011. Using agenda-setting and despotic nationalism as the theoretical foundation, the results of the study showed that Nigerian students in Malaysia read Nigerian online newspapers and perceived the salience of election issues differently. Findings equally revealed that candidates’ position on issues and candidates’ attributes are perceived differently. Similarly, the study found significant relationships between perceived influence of online newspapers and perceived salience of election issues on the one hand and candidates’ attributes on the other hand. The results confirmed the importance of the online newspaper to homeland political knowledge of transnational migrants, particularly during general election.Item Online Newspapers Reporting of Homeland and Politics to Diaspora Nigerians During the 2011 Nigerian Presidential Election: A Perspective from Malaysia(Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, 2014-12-01) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahThis 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 to today’s globalized world, the paper explored how homeland online papers connected the diasporas with Nigerian political transition. By content analyzing three major Nigerian online newspapers, the Daily trust, the Punch and the Vanguard, the papers concentrated on the supply side of information to Nigerians in diaspora, 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 prioritized election issues and candidates’ attributes differently from the main contenders in the election. The paper thus challenged the Nigerian media to consider the diasporic audience in their news production and distribution, particularly in the light of increasing agitation for direct political participation among Nigerians in diaspora.Item Online Newspapers Use and Homeland Political Participation Potentials of the Nigerian Students In Malaysia.(Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kenbangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia)., 2014-10-20) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahThe election time in any nation is a period for anxieties and expectations. It is also a period of heightened tripartite relationships between the candidates, the electorate and the media. While the citizens within the country rely mainly on the traditional media for information about election issues and candidates’ attributes, nations’ foreign residents bank on online versions of the homeland traditional media, particularly online newspapers. Although the impacts of traditional and new media on political participation within nations’ polity have received tremendous attention of scholars, little consideration has been accorded media use and political behaviour of foreign resident citizens whose transnational influence is becoming awesome in the contemporary time. Using cross-sectional survey design, this study samples Nigerian students in Malaysia higher learning institutions (N=312) with a view to examine the influence of online newspapers use on their political participation potentials in their homeland politics. Findings reveal weak but positive and significant correlations between online newspapers use and political interest on the one hand and online newspapers use and political participation on the other. The results thus show that reading online newspapers could be one of many factors cuing diasporic citizens to their homeland political development.Item Perceived credibility and consumption of homeland news among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia(Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2015-10-30) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahIncreasing migration, powered by advanced transportation, information and communication technologies, has created huge diasporic communities around the globe. Through push and pull forces, citizens of countries across the world have migrated from their homelands to near and far locations in search of better socio-political and economic opportunities and possibilities. In their new milieu, these corps of transnational migrants maintain close attachment with their countries of origin via a plethora of cyber-powered homeland communication and media artifacts. The migration of homeland traditional print and electronic media to the Internet, however, offers news avenues for migrants’ consumption of unadulterated news about events happening in their countries. While migrants’ homeland media consumption has received tremendous attention among scholars, little concern has been accorded factors that predict the forms and types of homeland media attracting migrants’ attention. This study, therefore, explored the relationship between perceived credibility and consumption of news from the online newspapers among Nigerian students in Malaysia (N=321). Findings revealed differential perceptions of three Nigerian online newspapers in terms of story depth, fairness, accuracy and trustworthiness. Perceived credibility of each online newspaper relates to reading the newspapers the most among the respondents. The study thus offered practical implications of perceived credibility of homeland newspapers for increased readership among diasporic audiences who could be valuable patrons of and contributors to homeland journalistic products.Item Volatile but Cue-Laden: Measuring Agenda-Setting in the Online Newspaper Environment.(Published by Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 2015-07-30) Mustapha, Lambe Kayode; Wok, SaodahAfter more than four decades of charting a paradigmatic direction in media effects research, agenda-setting has witnessed and survived enormous challenges to its main thesis. Despite the unending efforts of scholars to explicate the theoretical and logical mechanisms of the theory, the ever dynamic milieu in which agenda-setting effects is being explored, creates additional research problems necessitates further exploration. The arrival of new media and the subsequent migration of legacy media into the virtual realm, is another instance of the challenges of agenda-setting as a theory that is capable of unpacking media effects. While some scholars believe in the efficacy of agenda-setting in the new media environments, others argue along an attenuation perspective. Although a number of empirical approaches have been deployed to establish the continual heuristic value of agenda-setting in the age of new media, little, if any, attempt has been made to synthesise the findings into a coherent body. This review provides clues on the salient-directing cues in online newspapers on the one hand, and the challenges of measuring agenda-setting effects of online newspapers on the other hand.