Interactive' Online Journalism at English-Language Web Newspapers in Asia

A Dependency Theory Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID7499243
AuthorsBrian L Massey (corresponding author), Mark R Levy
Year1999
Volume61
Issue6
Pages523-538
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549299061006005
OpenAlexW2088707078
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited13

Using measures of socioeconomic development, this benchmark study of online journalism attempts to account for differences in the degree of interactivity associated with English-language Web newspapers in Asia. Two hypotheses are tested. The first, that the interactivity of online newspapers will decrease from the region's economically developed centre through to its least developed periphery; and second, that this association between economic development and `quality' of online newspapers also will be reflected in subregional centre-periphery divisions. Based on a content analysis of 44 Asian English-language online newspapers, neither hypothesis is robustly supported. The implications of these findings for understanding the emergence of this new form of journalistic communication and for dependency theory more generally are discussed

Advertising · Business · Interactivity · Journalism · Media studies · Newspaper · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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