Interactivity, online journalism and English-language web newspapers in Asia

English-language online newspapers in Asia were content analyzed using a fi ve-dimensional conceptualization of internativity. This study offers both a n enlarged theoretical framework for studying Web newspapers and tests that framework in the cross-cultural context of Asian journalism. Although all of the online newspapers examined provided users with a relatively complex choice of news content, most did not rate highly on the remaining four dime nsions of interactivity.