Topic Discussion 9 – Extras
Dear culturesyok bloggers,
Do you think sex education should be taught in school?
Watch this video: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103934
Write out your opinion about this video and sex education.
REMINDER: DEADLINE – There’s no deadline
EACH culturesyok bloggers can post at least 2 informal responses (0%), 2 reflective responses (0%), cite one reference (no wikipedia!, please watch the video) (0%) that deepens understanding of the topic discussion over a period of infinite days. For more information about sex education, please refer to YouTube, by typing in the search box “sex” then click search. Rememeber, no wiki…
BLOG!!!!
blog is something intersthing. our generation now days use blog to update their everyday life. some of them like to tell news. now in goggle search alot of blog come as a result. some of this blog is so good and a lot of information. i had find quiet number of blog they use in wrong way.
Thanks
Azizahamed
1071120388
SELAMAT HARI RAYA
GOOD LUCK GUYZ….
“Happy Hari Raya and Good Luck Your Exam”
for everyone, Happy hari raya and good luck for you’re exam…… i hope we can pass and nothing failed in exam.
this my present for all of you…
Blog is more interesting
no doubt that nowsaday blog is one of the ways people searching for the news. People are prefer to choose to read blog especially when it comes about political news rather than watch news in TV. Therefore the power of bloggers are actually getting stronger, the bloggers have more power to influence The readers. However, bare in minds not all the news in the blog are 100% true, the bloggers can use their blog to spread anything. so it’s up to the readers to judge what they read and the readers as well they have to know which one is true and vice versa.
My favourite blogs about my country :
http://gadis-indonesia.blogspot.com
http://visit-indonesia-euy.blogspot.com
http://blog.liputan6.com
by
RANDI HIMAWAN
1071113137
Blogs is the best weapon…
Blog is really powerful, because it’s usually based on people’s opinion, those people whom actually faced the issues and those people whom weren’t paid to write a blog. Those who were paid are the writers for the newspaper and magazines, there were instructed, therefore their stories might not be true… that’s for the local newspaper and magazines. Howeverm if compared to other countries like US or America, their stories were as true as it is in the blog (well, some of them weren’t, those chickens). I’m not saying that all the “story writers” in Malaysia are coward, but if they ever tried to write out the truth, the next thing they know is getting a chance to stay inside the jailroom, probably for years. Even now, there are still many bloggers in Malaysia done the brave thing, but then get caught by ISA… sad for them. However there are still many people out there, who wants to voice out their opinion through online blogging, are they gonna arrest all of them at once? No, they couldn’t, cuz the number of bloggers will just keep on increasing. Arresting their ass aren’t gonna change anything, it was just making the issue worser and worser… until it become the worst.
I don’t have a favorite blog in Malaysia, I never read any of them. Because when I’m just like all of them, when I read their blog, I can’t stop my hands from writing my own opinion in the blogsite, thus, destroying my own future, as they’ll arrest me, expel me from my university, beat me to death or lock me up forever… that’s the worst part… Therefore I’m not going to do any of that before I graduated and become a real villain…
By,
Lee Zhi Fei
1071120344
Blog
Of course blogs was familiar among the world, doesn’t matter private blogs or public blogs. Well, many people use blogs to voice out something. However in Malaysia, there was the person who voice out against the government, which could cause them trouble. I heard a news that a person write something which caused controversy, and he had been arrested. I’m not sure this was truth or not, but it propably a threat for bloggers. The news provided by the blog might not a truth, people cannot always listen to what the blogs displayed. There are many of blogs which already under suspended list, because of the controversial comments. But, I think there are nothing can stop people from bloggers to voice our their opinion, even though some previous cases that caused controversy. As a blog reader, we must be clever enough to know what the different the news from the blogs and the real news. Although there was a freedom of speech in the blogs, but we must make sure that our comments are acceptable.
Yong Keen Sen
1071119980
blog power!
Malaysia’s mainstream news seemed biased and unreliable. Malaysian turned to another unreliable news source which is the blogs. Who can blame them? It’s because they have no choice. Rather than hearing or seeing things that the BN-led government wants them to, they rather believe the stories from bloggers.
When people rely more on blogs for information, bloggers should be more responsible and professional in their writings. They should also concentrate on bringing forth the “truth” which the public seeks. They should also avoid stirring anger and chaos among the public. The public must also avoid believing 100% of the news the receive from blogs nor TV. They should learn to digest information and evaluate the news themselves.
Even as we search for freedom of speech in the internet domain, the government still find ways to stop bloggers. Using ISA(Internal Security Act), they can detain bloggers which is considered a threat to the government without questioning. Recent victim, Raja Petra Kamaruddin.
Blogs are hard to control. Thats why they can be free from being controlled by the government. For the time being, I think blogs are still relevant.
here are some popular news blogs:
Ahmad Muhsin
1071119979
reference
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/malaysia-news.html
Blog
Well, as you know as far as media and disseminating news are concerned, it is quite logical that some sources juggle the news, change them or reflect them in the way they want. Here the blogs and other medium faces come into play and try to explicit what has been said in a different way. I have seen some examples that the news are supporting a politician while few blogs are simply denying it. Democracy of the country is important in this case. The blog might be simply filtered and said to be breaking the laws and the blogger can be punished in silence. But if the country is a democratic country it can let everyone say what he or she wants and let the people decide which one is most likely to be true.
Seyed Behnam Razavi
1071118945
Topic Discussion 8 – Final One! (Blog Assignment) :
Dear students,
We have finally reach our last topic of discussion. I hope that you had a fruitful time exchanging views and ideas with each other. I hope too you all had fun!! Anyway, here is the last discussion:
- “The Emerging Power of Blogs and blogging in alternative news”. What is your opinion on this? Share some of your favourite blogs that provides alternative news about your country.
REMINDER: DEADLINE – 28 SEPTEMBER, 2008, 12 midnight
EACH student must post at least 2 informal responses (2%), 2 reflective responses (2%), cite one reference (no wikipedia!, please) (1%) that deepens understanding of the topic discussion over a period of 5 days to 7 days. Please refer to Assignment brief slides under “Assignments” for more detail information.
Oh My gOd!
The Barisan government announced the increase of petrol price by 78 sens per litre at the stroke of 12 midnight.As the petrol price increase,the transportation for everything such as food,material will also increase,so it would means that everything will increase all together with petrol price.Many people start to blame about the shocking price that went up suddently.Even my parents do,they start advicing me to go easy with the driving cost for the petrol.Hmm..start limiting my driving distance and usage of car.However,adults can earn more to cover the rising prices,then it would not become a problem to them.As we are students,it is really a cost problem to us.
I’m from penang,and i dun actually ownes a car as my parents are still worring my safety by using a car.But,i do understand the situation for the car users expecially the students of universities.It is troublesome for them to handle the rising cost that they have to worry about instead of food,daily use,clothings and some extra needs.It is really a huge changes for us as we are still young and have the passionate to travel around,here and there to explore the new places that are interesting.We also need to save money as our expenditure on the studies are a big issue for some middle-class families.We,the students of universities also have to save money on our future thoughts such as the planning for a journey to explore the world,marriage,bills,rents etc.So,we would have to manage the money we have wisely since the price are gone up.
Wu Si Jie
1071120345
References
http://weechookeong.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/petrol-price-jumps-78-sen-at-midnight/
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/legal/general_news/retail_petrol_price_to_reflect_world_crude_price.html
