TY - JFULL AU - Norraihan Zakaria and Abdul Rahman Othman PY - 2013/5/ TI - ‘The Right to Information’: A Malaysian Political Blog Readers’ Perspective T2 - International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering SP - 1073 EP - 1077 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997071 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 76, 2013 N2 - Political blogs are one of the pivotal alternative communication channels for political news in Malaysia. Many have argued that the mushrooming of political blogs nurtures the effective realization of human rights in the country. The paper studies the ‘Malaysian political blog readers–human rights’ relationship by exploring these questions: Has traditional mainstream media become obsolete with the rise of political blogosphere? Why do blog readers visit political blogs? A survey was conducted and the findings revealed that traditional mainstream media is still a pertinent source for political news in the country. Apart from acquiring the latest political updates quickly and at anytime, blog readers compare the news published in political blogs with the ones reported in traditional mainstream media. This suggests that freedom of information is deemed as one of the prime motives for Malaysian blog readers clinging to political blogosphere. ER -