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Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools

Social networking (SN) allows individuals to make connections with each other for both social and business purposes. The purpose of this research study is to find out the influence of SN on students from three Malaysian secondary schools by comparing their attitudes and behaviour towards SN besides...

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Main Authors: Thang, Siew Ming, Noorizah Mohd Noor,, Ng, Lay Shi, Adzuhaidah Md Taha,, Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz,
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11231/1/14061-51470-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.112312018-01-13T11:58:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11231/ Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools Thang, Siew Ming Noorizah Mohd Noor, Ng, Lay Shi Adzuhaidah Md Taha, Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz, Social networking (SN) allows individuals to make connections with each other for both social and business purposes. The purpose of this research study is to find out the influence of SN on students from three Malaysian secondary schools by comparing their attitudes and behaviour towards SN besides finding out whether they are aware of the risks and danger involved, and how they handle them. These schools are all normal day schools and are located in three different types of school environments in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur namely: urban, suburban and rural. Focus groups interviews were conducted on these students who were asked to give their response to seven scenarios depicting negative situations involving SN such as texting, cyberbullying, and hacking and identity theft. The findings revealed that these students were not very different from those in the west in that they are aware of risks involving in SN and will stay clear of risky behaviours. However, students in these three schools handled the problems related to SN in a more direct manner compared to the elite students in Thang et al.’s (2016) study. In particular, students in School C which is a rural school seemed to be less perturbed over the negative consequences of SN compared to students in the other schools. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11231/1/14061-51470-1-PB.pdf Thang, Siew Ming and Noorizah Mohd Noor, and Ng, Lay Shi and Adzuhaidah Md Taha, and Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz, (2017) Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools. AKADEMIKA, 87 (1). pp. 267-278. ISSN 0126-5008 http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/860
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description Social networking (SN) allows individuals to make connections with each other for both social and business purposes. The purpose of this research study is to find out the influence of SN on students from three Malaysian secondary schools by comparing their attitudes and behaviour towards SN besides finding out whether they are aware of the risks and danger involved, and how they handle them. These schools are all normal day schools and are located in three different types of school environments in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur namely: urban, suburban and rural. Focus groups interviews were conducted on these students who were asked to give their response to seven scenarios depicting negative situations involving SN such as texting, cyberbullying, and hacking and identity theft. The findings revealed that these students were not very different from those in the west in that they are aware of risks involving in SN and will stay clear of risky behaviours. However, students in these three schools handled the problems related to SN in a more direct manner compared to the elite students in Thang et al.’s (2016) study. In particular, students in School C which is a rural school seemed to be less perturbed over the negative consequences of SN compared to students in the other schools.
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author Thang, Siew Ming
Noorizah Mohd Noor,
Ng, Lay Shi
Adzuhaidah Md Taha,
Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz,
spellingShingle Thang, Siew Ming
Noorizah Mohd Noor,
Ng, Lay Shi
Adzuhaidah Md Taha,
Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz,
Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
author_facet Thang, Siew Ming
Noorizah Mohd Noor,
Ng, Lay Shi
Adzuhaidah Md Taha,
Noor Baizura Abdul Aziz,
author_sort Thang, Siew Ming
title Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
title_short Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
title_full Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
title_fullStr Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
title_full_unstemmed Influence of social networking on Malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
title_sort influence of social networking on malaysian female secondary students: a qualitative study across three schools
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11231/1/14061-51470-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11231/
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