Online news services among Jordanian universities students : a comparison study between hybrid and pure online news websites

Other Title(s)

الخدمات الإخبارية عبر الإنترنت بين طلبة الجامعات الأردنية : دراسة مقارنة بين المواقع الإلكترونية الإخبارية الهجينة و المواقع الإلكترونية الإخبارية الصرفة

Dissertant

al-Siraj, Amr Muadh

Thesis advisor

Bani Muhammad, Ashraf

Comitee Members

Abu al-Rubb, Faysal al-Said Farid
al-Nuaymi, Muhammad

University

Middle East University

Faculty

Faculty of Business

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2011

English Abstract

As the rapid increasing of internet users in Jordan, and being ones the most visited websites by Jordanian people, online news services are acquiring an important position as news platforms for the Jordanian people.

This study is concerned in the two main types of online news services: the hybrid online news service (the online version of a traditional newspaper) and there are 15 Jordanian websites of this type, and the pure online news service (the online news service that doesn't belong to a traditional media and newspaper) and there are 76 pure online services in Jordan.

This study has two main objectives: the first one is to determine the features and characteristics of both types, so the researcher prepared a structure comparison that contains 18 criteria and used four analysis tools via internet to collect data according to the structure comparison.

The second objective is to find out the dimensions that have an effect on the Jordanian universities students' choices for the type of online news service.

For this objective, the researcher designed a questionnaire consisting 20 items to gather information from the study sample that contained 630 Jordanian universities students from five different universities.

The results showed that the pure online news services ranked higher than the hybrid online news services in Jordanian traffic, and they have more links, images and animations (multimedia) too.

Pure online services have a blog and RSS feed and connected with social networks more than the hybrid websites.

Results also showed that from the demographical dimensions only gender, age and computer skills had a significant effect on the students' choice for the type of online news service.

Content dimension also effects on the students' choice.

Main Subjects

Educational Sciences
Media and Communication

Topics

• Universities
• Students
• Evaluation
• Attitudes
• Jordan
• Online journalism
• Web sites
• Standards

No. of Pages

97

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-698350