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What is upsetting our children online?

The Internet offers children opportunities as well as risks. However, the risks children are exposed to are still unknown. A total number of 420 Malaysian children aged 9-16 were asked to fill a 54-items questionnaire measuring Child Online Risks. The result shows that children are more exposed to ‘...

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Main Authors: Teimouri, Misha, Hassan, Md Salleh, Bolong, Jusang, Daud, Azlina, Yussuf, Serina, Adzharuddin, Nor Azura
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: Elsevier Ltd. (ScienceDirect) 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38454/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.384542015-05-20T07:30:46Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38454/ What is upsetting our children online? Teimouri, Misha Hassan, Md Salleh Bolong, Jusang Daud, Azlina Yussuf, Serina Adzharuddin, Nor Azura The Internet offers children opportunities as well as risks. However, the risks children are exposed to are still unknown. A total number of 420 Malaysian children aged 9-16 were asked to fill a 54-items questionnaire measuring Child Online Risks. The result shows that children are more exposed to ‘Unwanted Exposure to pornography’ such as seeing obscene materials on websites (31%), and ‘Potential harmful risks’ such as seeing bloody movies or photos (26%), people being beaten up (26%), and hate messages (16 %). Malaysian children are in danger to encounter with online risks such as pornography and violence materials. Elsevier Ltd. (ScienceDirect) 2014 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed Teimouri, Misha and Hassan, Md Salleh and Bolong, Jusang and Daud, Azlina and Yussuf, Serina and Adzharuddin, Nor Azura (2014) What is upsetting our children online? In: The International Conference on Communication and Media 2014 (i-COME’14), 18-20 Oct. 2014, Langkawi, Malaysia. (pp. 411-416). 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.314
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description The Internet offers children opportunities as well as risks. However, the risks children are exposed to are still unknown. A total number of 420 Malaysian children aged 9-16 were asked to fill a 54-items questionnaire measuring Child Online Risks. The result shows that children are more exposed to ‘Unwanted Exposure to pornography’ such as seeing obscene materials on websites (31%), and ‘Potential harmful risks’ such as seeing bloody movies or photos (26%), people being beaten up (26%), and hate messages (16 %). Malaysian children are in danger to encounter with online risks such as pornography and violence materials.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Teimouri, Misha
Hassan, Md Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
Daud, Azlina
Yussuf, Serina
Adzharuddin, Nor Azura
spellingShingle Teimouri, Misha
Hassan, Md Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
Daud, Azlina
Yussuf, Serina
Adzharuddin, Nor Azura
What is upsetting our children online?
author_facet Teimouri, Misha
Hassan, Md Salleh
Bolong, Jusang
Daud, Azlina
Yussuf, Serina
Adzharuddin, Nor Azura
author_sort Teimouri, Misha
title What is upsetting our children online?
title_short What is upsetting our children online?
title_full What is upsetting our children online?
title_fullStr What is upsetting our children online?
title_full_unstemmed What is upsetting our children online?
title_sort what is upsetting our children online?
publisher Elsevier Ltd. (ScienceDirect)
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38454/
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