TY  - JOUR
T1  - An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Political Blogs on
Citizen’s Participation in Malaysia Political Activism
AU - Hakim, Azma Asnawishah Abd AU - Shuhidan, Shamila Mohamed AU - Hashim, Husain AU - Shuhidan, Shuhaida Mohamed 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SP  - 20
EP  - 24
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.20.24
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.20.24
KW  - Politic
KW  -blog
KW  -information
KW  -network
KW  -participation
AB  - Interactive blogging activities have revolutionised the means of exchanging and disseminating
political information, insights and opinions on an everyday basis and have enabled the emergence of social
networks among the bloggers. This study shows how and why Malaysians are using political blogs. Malaysia
has been experiencing significant change in political communication. The research is grounded in theory which
argues that democracy is best served by a public sphere where competing visions of the future can be
expressed and subjected to debate without skewing or censorship to fit the agendas of dominating parties. This
research involved interviews with political blog writers in Malaysia from both government and opposition
parties. These interviews highlighted the information sharing, social networking, political agenda setting and
political development within Malaysian politics that has resulted from blogging. Blogs are playing a role in
changing the traditional political landscape and fostering social networks based on political activism, resulting
in increasing participation. From this a modified theory of citizen communication mediation is proposed. These
modifications incorporate the added value of web 2.0 applications attracting more people to political interest
and activism and incorporate the development of the use of social networking in interactive civic messaging.
Both, it is argued here have contributed to increased participatory political activism in Malaysia.
ER  -