SOCIAL STUDIES: REVISION QUESTIONS

MAIN POINTS EXPLANATION NOTES 1. Impacts of Definition: Washington States University, WSU advancement of (2010) - various technologies that enhance the creation, ICT in daily life storage, processing, communication and dissemination of information. a) Positive impacts a) Positive impacts: 1. Better 1. Better communication communication - Via e-mails, social networking such as Facebook, Twitter - Technologys Influence on Interpersonal Communication (2009) : It offers quick communication, and makes it possible to easily communicate with a large number of people - NST (2009): Najib uses Twitter, Facebook to keep in touch with Netizens, stated that despite his tight schedule, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak still manages to find time to update his Twitter and Facebook fan page, ensuring that his fans, friends and Netizens can keep in contact with him regularly. 2. Health 2. Health improvement improvement - Efficient exchange of information between health professionals - Telemedicine: provides medical service to people in geographically diverse settings: at home and in isolated places or in emergencies. - Green (2003) in WSU- Dr Bob Banieghbal at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto and Professor Benno Ure at his offices in Hannover, Germany used the tele-mentoring system to perform a laparoscopic surgery on a two-year-old. 3. Education system 3. Education system - Alias Daud, Zainab A. N. and Zaitun A. B (Elearning and virtual university: academic programs are tailored to the demands of mature or working students. - Multimedia University Malaysia (MUM) gives online service support to online classes, real time content and electronic learning resources. - University Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR): VOISS (Virtual Online Instructional Support System) that contains the courseware, forum, e-mail facilities, bulletin boards, assignments, quiz, time tables and examination results, which can be accessed from the Internet. b) Negative impacts 1. Diminish interpersonal b) Negative impacts 1. Diminish interpersonal communication - People are no longer facing or seeing each

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2. Misuse of mobile phones

3. Internet fraud

other while communicating. - All information are quickly sent to the other person via Internet. - Technologys Influence on Interpersonal Communication (2009): Since e-mail was created, it's been backfiring. E-mail is quick and easy to use, but brevity breeds carelessness. They range from e-mails going to unintended parties to confidential information being leaked or hacked. 2. Misuse of mobile phones - Send text messages to ask for divorce instead of voicing it out in front of their spouse. - Eric J Taylor (2008): Shamsuddin Latif had used his mobile phone to send a text message to his wife, Azida Fazlina Abdul Latif. This message was not an ordinary message; rather the husband sent his wife an ultimatum, stating If you do not leave your parents house, you will be divorced. - Judge Mohamad Fauzi Ismail, a Syariah Court judge in Gombak, Selangor, ruled that this SMS divorce was valid, and thus ended the couples eighteen-month marriage. 3. Internet fraud - United States Department of Justice: any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more components to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to other connected with the scheme. - Associated Press (2007): Malaysia's securities watchdog said Monday it has frozen two local bank accounts, shut down two Web sites and questioned several people suspected to be involved in a global Internet investment scam.

2. Ways to curb with Definition: any act of gender-based violence that violence against results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or women psychological harm or suffering to women including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty whether occuring in public or private life." a) Law enforcement a) Law enforcement (Ashgar Ali Ali Mohamed, 2006) - Malaysia has a code known as Code of Practice and Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. - Example: code 54 describes the law on assault or use of criminal force to a person with intent to outrage modesty. b) Education b) Education - most perpetrators are men - 16 Forms of Gender Violence and 16 Ways to Stop It (2008): a global forum in Rio de Janeiro sought to redefine ideas of masculinity that permit gender violence, and the citys programming is experimenting with therapeutic approaches. - Information/Awareness-raising Workshop was carried out, where participants shared their experiences and knowledge of violence against women. c) Roles of mass c) Roles of mass media media - Change the roles of existing media - Pan Health American Organization: The Media Awareness Network in Canada, for example, monitors compliance with Canadian broadcasting standards on violence in programming, lobbies the government to develop tougher standards, and conducts public education campaigns about particularly violent programming.