Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media

Previous studies only focused on the media policies and regulations. There is no specific research that has been done to track the freedom of information in print media in Malaysia. This study traces the freedom of information in the print media by exploring and analyzing the relationship betwee...

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Main Authors: Kannan Loganathan, Ali Salman, Emma Mohamad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/
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description Previous studies only focused on the media policies and regulations. There is no specific research that has been done to track the freedom of information in print media in Malaysia. This study traces the freedom of information in the print media by exploring and analyzing the relationship between legal environment and political environment and freedom of information. A survey research was conducted to obtain data to determine the level and to analyze the legal and political environment in relation to freedom of information. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The study found that the legal and political environment have significant relationship with freedom of information in print media in Malaysia.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:202992022-10-28T01:35:29Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/ Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media Kannan Loganathan, Ali Salman, Emma Mohamad, Previous studies only focused on the media policies and regulations. There is no specific research that has been done to track the freedom of information in print media in Malaysia. This study traces the freedom of information in the print media by exploring and analyzing the relationship between legal environment and political environment and freedom of information. A survey research was conducted to obtain data to determine the level and to analyze the legal and political environment in relation to freedom of information. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The study found that the legal and political environment have significant relationship with freedom of information in print media in Malaysia. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/1/25221-74517-1-SM.pdf Kannan Loganathan, and Ali Salman, and Emma Mohamad, (2018) Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, 13 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1823-884x https://ejournal.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1083
spellingShingle Kannan Loganathan,
Ali Salman,
Emma Mohamad,
Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title_full Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title_fullStr Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title_full_unstemmed Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title_short Measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in Malaysian print media
title_sort measuring the relationship between legal, political environment and freedom of information in malaysian print media
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20299/1/25221-74517-1-SM.pdf