The mass media in Malaysia has been encouraged to work with the government in mobilizing the people towards achieving national development objectives. Apart from the role that has been played by the traditional media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now the focus to lead Malaysia in the new era of globalization and knowledge and consequently development. Development policies a...

Drawing from the literature in Intercultural and New Media Studies (INMS), this study explores the SlutWalk social movement, a transnational movement of protest marches. The author conducted interviews with seven SlutWalk organizers from various cities in the United States to understand what culture SlutWalk organizers are fostering through their work and the role of new media communication in ...

Appreciation is expressed to Editor Venky Shankar and two anonymous referees for useful comments. Abstract In the early part of the 21st century, the media landscape has been dramatically affected by the introduction of new, largely digital media. This increase in the number of media has been driven largely by improvements in technology and how customers interact with the technology and each ot...

This paper investigates the culture being reflected in video games being produced in Canada as Canada is one of the world's leading producers of video games. It examines the how Canadian culture is represented in current new media artistic output against the culture, or lack of culture, being represented in video games currently being produced. With the shift of television viewers away from cul...

In the Spring of 2010, ACUTA conducted a survey of its institutional members regarding their institutions’ use of social networking sites. This literature review was compiled in conjunction with the survey research. The first section describes resources that were recommended by ACUTA members who serve either on the ACUTA Higher Education Advisory Panel or the ACUTA Social Networking, New Media...

In the context of politics, emotions and facts work together to shape opinions about political candidates. While there is considerable research on motivated reasoning about political issues, there is less attention to how affect and rationality combine in the hybrid world of new media. This study examined the interaction of social media comments about politicians with more traditional informati...

This article examines how Nigeria’s core values are being redefined in the face of the new media and cultural globalisation era; it identifies Nigeria’s core values to include age, greeting, dressing, among others. The questionnaire was used as an instrument to elicit data from the sampled population (Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State). Findings show that the Internet, especially...

Crisis management frameworks are typically associated with concepts related to command and control or “hierarchical” decisionmaking. However, advancements in communication technologies and new media platforms have brought new prospects to the design of crisis management frameworks. Social media platforms, for example, enable volunteering citizens to actively take part in crisis response efforts...

Incorporating new media technologies that enable mobile learning to be part of educational practice poses challenges to those used to teaching in a traditional classroom environment. In this article three lecturers and a learning advisor from a New Zealand university reflect on their experiences in the progressive redesign of a Bachelor of Arts degree paper. Students were tasked with using mobi...

Music is beautiful, and music communication is a dissemination of beauty, which could make more people enjoy that kind of beauty. MicroBlogging, as a new media, is more and more popular for users, especially for younger people. The timeliness of Microblogging makes it more convenient for music communication on the Internet. In this paper, we study how a musical event is propagated according to ...