Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim

The communication technology development reshaped the global information seeking landscape, and this study shed new light on the islamic information seeking through new media platform of the convert Chinese muslim which were highly unexplored. This research aim to understand the new media platform...

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Main Author:	Ting, Ma
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	T58.5-58.64 Information technology
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/1/s900748_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/2/s900748_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/3/s900748%20references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.83842022-12-28T02:55:41Z Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim 2019 Ting, Ma Ramli, Romlah Abdul Rahman, Nik Adzrieman Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts & Sciences T58.5-58.64 Information technology BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc The communication technology development reshaped the global information seeking landscape, and this study shed new light on the islamic information seeking through new media platform of the convert Chinese muslim which were highly unexplored. This research aim to understand the new media platform which utilized by convert Chinese muslim and the influential factor of the new media utilization, in further, this research identify the scope of islamic information which convert chinese muslim acquired through new media platform and the credibility of the islamic information sources. This research applied qualitative research method which tried to understand the Islamic information seeking of convert Chinese Muslim through new media utilization. This research used snow ball sampling recruit 16 convert Chinese Muslim who currently live in mainland China as the informants in this research, and used in-depth interview to collect data and use Nvivo software to analyze data. Apparently, the researcher found out that current social media are widely used for convert Chinese Muslim for their Islamic information seeking since most the Chinese Muslim website and many foreign websites were block, and the China based social media, WeChat became the most widely used social media platform for Islamic information seeking. Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating condition are all influence media utilization of convert Chinese The convert Chinese Muslim have not only acquired fundamental Islamic information, but also acquired practical Islamic information which provided by Muslim from all over the world. The convert Chinese Muslim judge the credibility of source from the content, the source-writer relation, and the third party. This study is far from representative of the experience of all convert Chinese Muslim in China, it provides some preliminary evidence for Islamic information seeking behavior of the convert Chinese Muslim in contemporary China. This research provide the evidence for information seeking theory, within the wilson’s model, the credibility of source are also influence the information seeking behavior. This research finding add one more attribution to Internet’ Islamic information credibility scale which expended source credibility theory. This research find that the credibility of source is a mediated factor of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), This research also provided evidence for use and gratification theory from the information seeking behavior of convert Chinese Muslim from Chinese context. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/1/s900748_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/2/s900748_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/3/s900748%20references.docx text eng public other doctoral Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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language	eng eng eng
advisor	Ramli, Romlah Abdul Rahman, Nik Adzrieman
topic	T58.5-58.64 Information technology T58.5-58.64 Information technology
spellingShingle	T58.5-58.64 Information technology T58.5-58.64 Information technology Ting, Ma Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
description	The communication technology development reshaped the global information seeking landscape, and this study shed new light on the islamic information seeking through new media platform of the convert Chinese muslim which were highly unexplored. This research aim to understand the new media platform which utilized by convert Chinese muslim and the influential factor of the new media utilization, in further, this research identify the scope of islamic information which convert chinese muslim acquired through new media platform and the credibility of the islamic information sources. This research applied qualitative research method which tried to understand the Islamic information seeking of convert Chinese Muslim through new media utilization. This research used snow ball sampling recruit 16 convert Chinese Muslim who currently live in mainland China as the informants in this research, and used in-depth interview to collect data and use Nvivo software to analyze data. Apparently, the researcher found out that current social media are widely used for convert Chinese Muslim for their Islamic information seeking since most the Chinese Muslim website and many foreign websites were block, and the China based social media, WeChat became the most widely used social media platform for Islamic information seeking. Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating condition are all influence media utilization of convert Chinese The convert Chinese Muslim have not only acquired fundamental Islamic information, but also acquired practical Islamic information which provided by Muslim from all over the world. The convert Chinese Muslim judge the credibility of source from the content, the source-writer relation, and the third party. This study is far from representative of the experience of all convert Chinese Muslim in China, it provides some preliminary evidence for Islamic information seeking behavior of the convert Chinese Muslim in contemporary China. This research provide the evidence for information seeking theory, within the wilson’s model, the credibility of source are also influence the information seeking behavior. This research finding add one more attribution to Internet’ Islamic information credibility scale which expended source credibility theory. This research find that the credibility of source is a mediated factor of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), This research also provided evidence for use and gratification theory from the information seeking behavior of convert Chinese Muslim from Chinese context.
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author	Ting, Ma
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title	Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
title_short	Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
title_full	Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
title_fullStr	Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim
title_sort	exploring information seeking in new media among convert chinese muslim
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/1/s900748_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/2/s900748_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/8384/3/s900748%20references.docx
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Exploring information seeking in new media among convert Chinese Muslim

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