Factors determinate customer shopping behaviour through Internet: the Malaysian case

This study try to explore factors that are affect shopping behaviour of the customer, how does Internet marketing affect the behaviour of the customer. Factor analysis is used in this study to identify the salient attributes that have impact on consumers’ shopping behaviour about Internet marketing. Since, Factor analysis represents an analytical process of transforming statistical data (as measurements) into linear combinations of variables. In addition, multiple regression model was estimated to anticipate the effects of the explanatory variables. Findings of regression analysis indicated that all four factors such as Internet marketing environment, product characteristics, familiarity and confidence and promotional offer have significant impact on customer intention about Internet marketing. In conclusion, underlying uncertainty of customers as to the security of transaction on the Internet. Customers may not yet be ready for the transactional purposes due to security concern and mentally afraid doing transaction online due to security reason. They believe that online transactions are not secured enough to protect the payment method as disclosure of information

Journalists' development journalism role perceptions

Development journalism remains an important concept in the journalism studies literature, but it has, at the same time, suffered from a lack of empirical research. Drawing on a survey of 2598 journalists from eight South Asian, Southeast Asian, and sub-Saharan African countries, which was conducted as part of the Worlds of Journalism Study, this study assesses the importance journalists ascribe to three key development journalism roles—social intervention, national development, and educating people. It also compares these perceptions across the countries, between government- and privately owned news media in these countries, and between these countries and 19 Worlds of Journalism Study countries in Western Europe and North America, which profess to adhere to an objective and democratic press function. Findings suggest that journalists from the eight countries, across government- and privately owned media, considered development journalism important, and detached, adversarial journalism as less important. Their rating of the latter roles differed considerably from those of journalists from the 19 comparison countries. Results suggest that journalists were more likely socialized into their roles rather than being forced into the same by the heavy hand of government

In Media We Trust

Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have in various social institutions using data from the present Worlds of Journalism Study. In each country, results showed the level of trust in journalists’ own institution—the media—is higher than the level of trust in both political and regulative institutions. The expression of low trust, particularly in regulative institutions, in the sampled countries represents significantly different results from previous studies about journalists’ trust in countries with longer democratic traditions.Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague [PRVOUK P17]; the South African National Research Foundation (IFRR); Institute for International Journalism, Ohio University (IIJ) at Ohio University; the Worlds of Journalism Studies project at Ludwig-Maxmilians University, Munich