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Assalamualaikum and good evening to all my group members. Online news sites is a news blog where the blog is written in blog without we know who the author is. These blogs usually show the current issues for public display. Validity of the blog can not we expect the true extent since this blog was written by ordinary people and unknown authors. For the example, the page of Siakap Keli. This blog usually we can see on Facebook show the current issues concerning the country. It is also often display a hot issues these days that ended up going viral and widely shared. Next is online-only news site or online newspaper. This online newspaper is the online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical. Going online created more opportunities for newspaper such as competing with broadcast journalism in presenting breaking news in a more timely manner. There are many examples for this online-only news sites such asa Yahoo! News...

It is not rare thing to discuss about internet addiction these years. We have become so internet dependent that each day, after wake up from bed, the first thing first we check is our phone, especially those who owns digital device with the internet. Internet helps to ease our activity but at some point it can make things gone worse. A scholarly explanation on internet addiction is “ Internet addiction (IA) is the lack of ability to control Internet use and involvement leading to progressive loss of control. With negative social effects, Internet addicts use the Web as a social and communication tool, once they experience higher levels of pleasure and satisfaction when online than in real life” (Abreu, nd). Thus, we conducted a simple survey that was posted on facebook and get the first hand information of “internet addicts” around us. Respondent. With the total of 59 respondents that we got from 17 March until we closed the survey on the 20 of March, 44 responses came from th...

Assalamualaikum for all my group member. Digital device nowadays is not something new among our generation. Based on documentary we watch before, it shows how device not only be used by our generation but it can be use for older generation andit also used by disability people to develop their skill. I want to ask your personal opinion. In Malaysia we have jalur Lebar and Pusat Internet 1 Malaysia (PI1M) to access internet, basically for people in village to access internet. You can click the link below to read more on how government sector provide the infrastructure not only or young generation but also can be use by older people, they also teach them how to use digital device. http://www.sinarharian.com.my/polopoly_fs/1.417387.1438996260!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_624/image.jpg In your opinion, is it okay for older generation, like our parent or our grandparent disclosed with digital device and internet? As we know new media introduce the development and ...

A very good day to everyone.        Nowadays, we always spend out time to look into social media such as Facebook and Instagram. Besides posting our own photo, we always found that there are babies photos shared by their parents. Well, we know that children do not know how to use smartphone and other smart devices.        We always saw that mothers nowadays always or like to post or shares their children's photos in social media especially photo of their baby. It is not new because there are mothers that willing to post and share their newborn baby photos everyday such as on Facebook and Instagram.        It is undeniable that their reason posting this kind of photo is to show their happiness and share it with their friends on social media and also others who even do not know them.        However, there must have several impact from exposing too much detail about children's photo everyday. Therefore, ...

Assalamualaikum and hye to all my partner friends. Here I like to discuss about the relation between journalism nowadays with new media. As we know, many of us are to much rely on new media such as Facebook, Twitter and so on to get any information about current issue as our knowledge. I think it is a good ways to gain information in order to follow the flow of modernisation  of technology nowadays especially in our country. But, at the same time we know that certain information in new media sometimes are not fully believable and also can be bias. Sometimes, a journalist that in charge to post news or current issue in media are not emphasizes the journalism ethics.  The article of Advertising Age that I was read was mention that fake news is not new phenomenon but it was calling "freak journalism" which is disinformation news that people will get. It will become huge spread by people to people and at the end all people will trust about the news that not have validity. Then ...

Assalamualaikum and a very good evening guys,  In out post before this, we had discussed about Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), but only about the good side of it, such as CMC helps us a lot in communicating with our loved ones when we are far away from them. So this time we are going through what are the negatives impact of the CMC. As we all know, communicating through computer has really helping us to communicate in a very easier way. However, CMC also has affected every aspect of society including the social problem in our country today. Have you ever heard about teenagers are raped by the strangers that they merely knew from social media? (Here is the link of one of the cases http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/girl-raped-man-she-met-wechat-45999 ). Nowadays, most of us today can access all those kinds of social medias such as Facebook, Twitter, WeChat and many more. But not all of us do access it in an appropriate way especially those teenagers who ...

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone, Last few days ago, we were introduced with the idea or concept of digital divide. To refresh back what we have learned, digital divide is a term used to describe the gap or disparity between and within societies in the use of digital technology. Digital divide is seen as an issue because it is often being associated with the idea of socio-economic inequality between and within societies. Most of the societies around the world are working hard to fight off this issue and this is due to the fact that the digital technology is recognized as one of the most important components in human’s life in a way that, according to Kouadio (2007) “They enable many people to lead more productive and rewarding lives”. Even in Malaysia, we are facing this issue in fact, according to Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek, digital divide has slowed Malaysia’s progress to smart nation (The Malay Mail Online, 2014). Since we are gearing up to be a smart nation, t...

Good evening, everyone. According to December (1996), computer mediated communication (CMC) is “the process by which people create, exchange, and perceive information using networked telecommunications systems that facilitate encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages”. We live in the world where the technology helps us to reach and communicate with others, no matter how far the distance between us and others. From my experience, I use WhatsApp to connect with my loved ones, especially my family. WhatsApp makes me easier to send and share photos with my family. My mother also sends the photos of my family at home. When I miss my family, I will look at the photos. We also share news about what happening around us at the WhatsApp group. I think that I can relate my experience using WhatsApp to Social Presence Theory. According to Short, Williams, and Christie (1976), social presence as a construct was primarily composed of two main concepts: intimacy and immediacy. Even t...

  Hello guys, good evening.  First of all, I want to ask you a question, have you read an article “Does the Internet makes us stupid?” This is a good article and worth to read. If you haven’t read it yet, you can click this link http://morpheus.calm.unimas.my/file.php/9575/internet_make_us_stupid.pdf Basically, this article discusses how Information Communication Technology (ICT) give influence toward some aspects of human’s life. Is it ICT has a good or bad impact towards our life? We cannot ignore the fact that technology these days really helpful, therefore we rely on it almost all the time. There are a lot of technologies have been mentioned within the article that makes our life easier especially the writer.  Actually, in this blog, I just want to share my opinion towards this article. There is one point in the article that mentions about handwriting. Some people more prefer to do typing instead of writing. Why? It is because with the information tec...