Online newspapers reporting of homeland politics to diasporic Nigerians during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election: a perspective from Malaysia

• Main Authors: Mustapha, Lambe Kayode, Wok, Saodah, Haque, Md. Shahidul
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: H61.8 Communication of information
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/1/AMIC.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/4/AMIC_abstract.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/39970/; http://amic.org.sg/conference/AMIC2013/home.htm

This study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diasporas to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today’s globalized wo...