Revisiting Merantau with a sense of Minangness: cultivating the field of Malay media studies

• Main Author: Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya 2022
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); H61.8 Communication of information
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/104932/7/104932_Revisiting%20Merantau%20with%20a%20sense%20of%20Minangness.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104932/; https://jpmm.um.edu.my/index.php/JPMM/article/view/36751/14537

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