Azizah Hamzah

University of Malaya | UM · Department of Media Studies

This qualitative research examines the reconceptualisation of tudung as modern lifestyle among Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. With the emergence of social media, the image of tudung has been reinvented from mundane subject to be more colourful and stylish and emerge as modern popular culture in the Malay society. The popularity of tudung has...

The Muslim refugee crisis is one of the most critical and controversial issues that face the international community in the 21 century. The increase of violence, conflicts, and climate change are the main reasons for the waves of refugees leaving their homelands to seek protection and a better future in other countries. The devastating situation in...

This qualitative study focuses on the concept of Malay garden in the preservation of Malay knowledge and excellence. The garden is an important concept in Malay art and culture. The uniqueness of garden is mentioned in a variety of old manuscripts and Malay Hikayat and typically associated as a prohibited area that can only be accessed by royal fam...

This study explores the concept and significance of recreational reading in the Arab world. Recreational reading, often termed "Reading for pleasure," (Clark & Rumbold, 2006), "voluntary reading," (Krashen, 2004), or "independent reading," (Cullinan, 2000) is the reading carried out by personal choice. However, recreational reading in the Arab worl...

This article describes the latest developments in the creative industry in South Korea and Malaysia. This article begins with the facts and figures of the global creative economy, followed by a specific discussion of experiences and stories in an effort to develop the creative industry between Malaysia and South Korea. To achieve that goal, this ar...

This article discusses the ethnographic nature of audience studies and the practices of audience ethnography in Kampung Papitusulem, Sabak Bernam. Although ethnography has been adopted in the studies of media reception worldwide, it is not a popular methodological tradition among the media and communication researchers in Malaysia. However, conside...

This study examines the coverage of the Islamist militant group that established the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant ISIL by CNN and Aljazeera.After the attacks of September 11, 2001; the international media have launched the “war on terror” campaign out of concern for international security and global conflict from their perspectives. This study...

This article addresses the contention of cultural identity in a traditional healthcare practice among Malay women of Javanese descent in Malaysia. The Malaysian Javanese are constitutionally recognised as Malays. However, in some aspects of life, particularly traditional healthcare practices, this community still retains the ways and images of bein...

This article discusses the interpretation of television in relation to ethnic identity embraced by the female members of Javanese diaspora in Malaysia. The Javanese diaspora in this context refers to the descendants of the colonial Javanese migrants from Indonesia. In contemporary Malaysia, they are considered as Malays, but essentially they retain...

A qualitative method using focus group discussions (FGDs) was applied in this study to identify people's perceptions on newspaper reporting pertaining to the Southern Separatist Movement (SSM) by different Yemeni newspapers. This paper also looked into the attitudes towards the movement and the popularity of the issue of Yemeni unification. Five FG...

This article serves as a qualitative analysis of the relationships between the consumption of television news and political participation in rural Malaysia during 2013 General Election (GE13). The debates following the results of GE13 raise the awareness of rural-urban divide, which is associated with the differences of news engagement between rura...

This study explores the uses of Islamic television content in bridging the gap between Javanese and Malay identity among the Malay women of Javanese descent in Malaysia. Malaysian religious television programmes have constantly promoted the Islamic identifications of Malayness, enabling the Malay audience to reconstruct the culturally religious ide...

This article discusses the consumption of television and the construction of everyday identities among the Malay women of Javanese descent in Sabak Bernam. Malaysian Javanese communities that constitute Malay society are exposed to the Malay identity discourses through various channels including television. At the same time, they maintain Javanese...

Artikel ini membincangkan penontonan televisyen dalam kalangan wanita keturunan Jawa di Sabak Bernam dan hubungannya dengan pembentukan identiti seharian. Masyarakat keturunan Jawa di Malaysia diiktiraf sebagai bangsa Melayu dan terdedah dengan budaya arus perdana negara ini melalui pelbagai saluran seperti televisyen. Pada masa yang sama, mereka m...

Advancement in technology has propelled the new media to play a more important and dominant role compared to traditional media, especially with the presence of social media platforms. Social interaction in cyberspace using new media applications such as social networking has been adapted by more and more people. It became an informal public gatheri...

Digital technology, also known as new media technology, has become an influential tool in this era. This technology is no longer an option anymore but it is a necessity in many fields. As one of the areas that are inextricably linked with technology, the media industry including journalism, cannot escape from being impacted upon by any technologica...

Children's literature is seen as an important means of entertainment and education for children. Literary products include picture books, traditional literature, historical fiction, fantasy, and poetry. The role and influence of children's literature, which doubles as a cultural product, in society should not be underestimated. However, the way how...

This article examines the development and usage of e-government in Malaysia. The history of public administration reform in Malaysia demonstrates the government's willingness to experiment with innovations seen as improving the efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness of public services. Thus, e-government has been enthusiastically promoted by...

This ethnographic research examines how female Javanese descendants in the small village of Sabak Bernam, Malaysia negotiate their identity through television consumption. Living in Malaysia for many years, their presence and cultural identity are elaborately questioned in the debate of cultural products ownership between Malaysia and Indonesia. It...

This chapter is concerned with how urban Malay women negotiate and imagine modernity mediated through imported television dramas. In the earliest phase of television broadcasting in Malaysia (during the 1960s and 70s), Western soap operas were reported as being the most popular programs among local audiences. This trend continued after the privatiz...

This paper is concerned with how urban Malay women negotiate and imagine their modernity as mediated through imported television dramas. It is clear that one of the platforms through which to articulate modernity in contemporary Malaysia is the consumption of popular culture. Promoted at first as an appropriate television genre to strengthen the ag...

This paper will present the findings of the pilot studies on the use of online social network in Malaysia. A total of 40 questionnaires were distributed to active users of this social media to get an early indication on this activity. In addition, discussion about the global activities of online social networking is also undertaken as a comparison....

The technology of computer networks does not just connect computers but it also connects humans. The technology keeps evolving from time to time. From online bulletin boards to the system of computer conferences and Internet, the technology has now led to the emergence of online communities with the introduction of Web 2.0 technology. Social intera...

Writing well and effectively helps our students achieve three important objectives. Firstly, it reinforces the grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary. Secondly, writing provides opportunities for our students to be more adventurous with the language, to go beyond what they have learnt and to take risks with the effects of writing. And, fina...

Electronic journalism offers readers new interpretative possibilities, explored here in Malaysia. Ludic hermeneutic accounts of media reception posit engaging in games as a metaphorical model for an audience creatively forming the meaning of a screen text. Accessing the internet, web users’ comprehension of virtual content is a seriously play-like...

Electronic journalism offers readers new interpretative possibilities, explored here in Malaysia. Ludic hermeneutic accounts of media reception posit engaging in games as a metaphorical model for an audience creatively forming the meaning of a screen text. Accessing the internet, web users' comprehension of virtual content is a seriously play-like...