The Perception of Reading Online News among University Students in Sub-Urban Area
Persepsi Membaca Berita dalam Talian di kalangan Pelajar Universiti di Wilayah Sub-Urban
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https://doi.org/10.33102/sainsinsani.vol3no2.57Abstract
In studying Internet, we need to take account for differences in places. This is because the Internet affords to show different patterns in which people in different types of places access and use the Internet. Meanwhile, many current studies proved that the Internet is changing the behavior of news readers. Instead of reading a copy of the local newspaper or watching the scheduled evening news, people increasingly turn to the Internet for daily news and this trend also included university students as one of the increasing readers. Therefore, we seek to explore how university students in suburban area differ in terms of the ways in which they read news, their levels of access to the Internet and the purpose of read online news. Findings suggested that few criteria must be considered in order to produce better online news in future.
Keywords: readiness; reading; online news; sub-urban; students
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2018-09-07
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DOI: 10.33102/sainsinsani.vol3no2.57
Published: 2018-09-07
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Mat Nayan, L., Othman, S. S., Tiong, L. K., & Nik Hasan, N. N. (2018). The Perception of Reading Online News among University Students in Sub-Urban Area: Persepsi Membaca Berita dalam Talian di kalangan Pelajar Universiti di Wilayah Sub-Urban. Sains Insani, 3(2), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.33102/sainsinsani.vol3no2.57
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