Political interaction : a study of personal website by members of Malaysian parliament (2012-2015) /
This study examines the political interaction of members of Malaysian parliament (Dewan Rakyat) with the people in the context of information society as planed in Vision 2020. It wanted to know three aspects of interactivity, the reasons MPs are choosing to go online, how do they use their personal...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2017
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| Online Access: | Click here to view 1st 24 pages of the thesis. Members can view fulltext at the specified PCs in the library. |
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| Summary: | This study examines the political interaction of members of Malaysian parliament (Dewan Rakyat) with the people in the context of information society as planed in Vision 2020. It wanted to know three aspects of interactivity, the reasons MPs are choosing to go online, how do they use their personal websites and how do they present themselves on their personal websites. To gain the answers, it conducted a survey on parliamentarians and studied MPs personal websites using the standard methodology of Gibson and Ward to study political party and candidate's websites. The independent variable was the personal websites that were first tested for effectiveness and then for political interaction on intervening three variables of information shared, the engagement provided and the links shared. The websites were tested for image building from the language option available considering the multiracial nature of the country. They were also tested for the photos and videos shared and the issues they took up either in their role, clarification of misinformation and promotion of self. It was found that MPs use personal websites for sharing information and links and less for engagement and therefore are partially successful in political interaction as representatives of the people in parliament. The hypothesis that the greater the information shared on websites the greater the communicability to the people stood true. However, the hypothesis the greater the number of MPs having personal websites the greater access was found negative since less than one third of MPs had a personal website. The third hypothesis of the greater the engagement, the greater the participation too stood not true since all sub variables of engagement were found to be negative. The study recommends that all MPs ought to have official personal websites to be one-point source of information engagement and assistance through links for the citizens, media academics and public. Personal website would assist in playing their role efficiently and give them feedback from the public, providing the advantage technology can exploit to connect people to their representatives, which in turn gives them the legitimacy to their seat in parliament. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 177 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-169). |