Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Online News Paper Reading Habits

Online News Paper Reading Habits among PhD Students and Faculty Members in Aligarh Muslim University


Dr. Naushad Ali P.M

Mohamed Musthafa. K

Abstract

Defines online and web newspaper and discuss the features and limitations of digital version of this light reading material. The study reveals majority of the students and faculty members of Aligarh Muslim University are online readers and many of them prefer their regional languages - Hindi and Urdu. Respondents from other than Northern India prefer their own respective mother tongue. The problem of regional language character display is reduced over years. Features like video clips and audio attachments are interesting features of online news papers. Instant news updates makes the online news papers more attractive to the readers. The favorite item in online newspaper is the local news and reports among the respondents.
The data for this study was collected through a questionnaire distributed among the university faculty members and PhD students. The empirical research design and random sampling technique was applied to select the sample.

Key words: online newspaper, electronic newspaper, reading habit.

(Paper presented in IFLA International Newspaper Conference, New Delhi)

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