FREEDOM OF INTERNET:
A RESEARCH OF INTERNET USERS AMONG THE UiTM STUDENTS
BY:
MOHD AFIFI BIN ZAKARIA
2012447002
MC223S3A
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHOD (COM533)
DR. ZULKIFLI ABD. LATIFF
Introduction of Research
In this globalization era, the internet or the virtual world has becoming more complicated and has the potential by showing more effective platform of various collaborative activities which includes academic and education purposes. The intention and the desire regarding the uses of internet world are all about the uses of the internet.
By doing this, it has led to the freedom of using the internet with the purpose of gaining information for various purpose that have arouse various of advantages and disadvantages of the subject.
As been proposed by Kaunchin, Injazz and Howard (2001) on freedom of the internet, they explained that the impacts of over-time spending on the internet may lead to several impacts to the user’s life. This shows that the internet can contribute various impacts to the users not only as source and information purpose but more than that.
Since internet is a borderless media, it can give us anything that we can possibly ever think of. Moreover, the internet is the most important communication medium today, that can be used as a two way communication. According to James Selvin (2000), he explains that rather than comparing other types of media, the internet has remarkably rising in various mode of other conventional communication which means radio and television. This demonstrate that the changed of internet as the world seeking information has become crucial for communication revolution.
Internet development has given various perspectives, especially in our life on academic purposes. However, the internet has given many bad impressions in our life that we must aware by means to the addiction to internet. This addiction can lead to slower productivity, damaging the individual relationship with others and
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