Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?

It is no doubt that the popularity of ICTs in developing countries has increased the use of internet-related social networking sites along with news information consumption, production, and news distribution. As such, there has been a huge shift in the trend of news consumption from conventional med...

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Autores principales: Muhammad Ramzan Pahore, Sumera Memon, Norsiah Abdul Hamid, Awan Bt Ismail
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8b4850a86de14159a5a687dbaf6241002021-11-10T15:10:48ZDoes Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?2086-15592527-281010.26623/themessenger.v13i1.2552https://doaj.org/article/8b4850a86de14159a5a687dbaf6241002021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.usm.ac.id/index.php/the-messenger/article/view/2552https://doaj.org/toc/2086-1559https://doaj.org/toc/2527-2810It is no doubt that the popularity of ICTs in developing countries has increased the use of internet-related social networking sites along with news information consumption, production, and news distribution. As such, there has been a huge shift in the trend of news consumption from conventional media to an online newspaper. It has also been tocied that male and female youth are equally inclined to use internet for different reasons. Thus, in recent times scholars have started inspecting online newspaper consumption-related behavior, with an emphasis on young boys and girls in a way this group is one that can last longer. However, very few studies have paid attention to gender differences in motivating factors for online newspaper consumption in Pakistan. To address this gap, by using a cross-sectional design, a survey was conducted on university students from three public universities of Pakistan because university students are tech-savvy and mostly internet users. These three universities are representative of rural and urban population. Questionnaires were used to collect data which was analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Multi Group Analysis. Hypothesized results discovered that in terms of online newspaper consumption, there was no gender differences found in online newspaper consumption among Pakistani youth.Muhammad Ramzan PahoreSumera MemonNorsiah Abdul HamidAwan Bt IsmailUniversitas Semarangarticleonline newspaper consumption, motivating factors, youth, gender differences, pakistanCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96ENIDJurnal the Messenger, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 81-93 (2021)
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topic online newspaper consumption, motivating factors, youth, gender differences, pakistan
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Muhammad Ramzan Pahore
Sumera Memon
Norsiah Abdul Hamid
Awan Bt Ismail
Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
description It is no doubt that the popularity of ICTs in developing countries has increased the use of internet-related social networking sites along with news information consumption, production, and news distribution. As such, there has been a huge shift in the trend of news consumption from conventional media to an online newspaper. It has also been tocied that male and female youth are equally inclined to use internet for different reasons. Thus, in recent times scholars have started inspecting online newspaper consumption-related behavior, with an emphasis on young boys and girls in a way this group is one that can last longer. However, very few studies have paid attention to gender differences in motivating factors for online newspaper consumption in Pakistan. To address this gap, by using a cross-sectional design, a survey was conducted on university students from three public universities of Pakistan because university students are tech-savvy and mostly internet users. These three universities are representative of rural and urban population. Questionnaires were used to collect data which was analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Multi Group Analysis. Hypothesized results discovered that in terms of online newspaper consumption, there was no gender differences found in online newspaper consumption among Pakistani youth.
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Norsiah Abdul Hamid
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title Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
title_short Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
title_full Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
title_fullStr Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
title_full_unstemmed Does Gender Differences Exist in Online Newspaper Consumption among Pakistani Youth?
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