Internet can manipulate your mind!

THE INTERNET

What is the Internet? The internet, in simplest terms, is the large group of millions of computers around the world that are all connected to one another. These computers are connected by phone lines, fiber optic lines, coaxial cable, satellites, and Wireless Connections.

When you log on to the Internet you are given access to many of the other computers that are connected around the world. What I want to say here is, is it really a thing on the Internet is really there? This is where the question whether we take care of things on the internet.

For me it is not, because not all the rumors on the internet is one hundred percent true. Sometimes we are easily fooled by a variety of brochures, article, news, and assorted other. Every time I surf the Internet, I do not fully trust the website when you are in delivering an others of article primarily political. Such things can not be taken lightly because we have to investigate first before making the decision believe it or not.

We have various ways to prevent themselves from believing. Which one are we able to investigate or refer the right resources such as news on TV, radio, and newspapers. There is many different ways media sources that we can find from the Internet. There are many websites that can manipulate our minds to continue to believe it. Among the websites is that offer shares in an investment. I am very sure, from here should be more influential with there.

Therefore, we should take precautions before making a decision with just one look. Not all items displayed on the Internet is true. Investigate before believing.

Muhammad Hasyir Naswira
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Would you believe that!?

Sometimes I do frankly speaking... probably one of those times doing assignment moments where I get all the info’s from Wikipedia. But knowing that Wikipedia is a free platform for anyone to write on, it gets a wee bit unreliable. Though they do have reference, citations and some reviewers maintaining its authenticity, anyone can get into it and alter the information within the site.

Well, you get the idea. Here's an example of how anyone can change an article in Wiki. Oh and ignore the vulgarism in it too.

I've witness arguments backing their points from Wiki. And know this, they didn't win. Simply because...well it's out of question how authentic Wiki is in any argument. I think a lot believed in Wiki for its authentic-like layout with articles and citations etc. It's possible for anyone to alter some infos even though it has citations and reference in it. I assume any scholar would know that Wiki is not legitimate enough to be part of an academic research.

So, answering the question, whether i take what is on the Internet, I'd answer yes. But that doesn't mean i totally ignore other sources other than what i read on the Internet.

Based on the comic, clearly the guy isn't capable of differentiating a hoax and truth. It depends really. If you're reading something out of a blog, you know it's an opinion based news. If you're reading from a notorious websites (I wouldn't say notorious, but i can't find the proper word), you're sure to know their contents are purely for humor and fun. But if it's sites like NatGeo, Discovery or other big names sites such as these, they are recognized and made their proper research and works.

Brenden Undan

1091102247

I Am Fake !!!

Without news in our life, it will feel just like a movie without a sound. How could we enjoy the film if there are no sound at all. This show us how important that news in our life. Beside television and newspapers, many people agreed that internet could be a primary source for us to find information and news. But, when I spending my time for searching the important news, I found these websites that really make me feel so fake... I mean really fake...

WasArrested
In this website, you can create your own news!!! It's just as simple as ABC and 123. First, you just type the victim's name, city, and gender, then you choose the headlines. You can choose many stories that you want to use, or you also can create your own story. After you finish, just give your friends the link to the website and it will connect it to their main page that really look like other news website.

Fake A Wish
This website is similar to WasArrested website, but, they are all about celebrities. It is just like other fake and prank news website. First, you just write the celebrities name, choose the story, and then, there you go, a fake hot story about your favorite celebrity. You can choose either you want your celebrity to be missing, hospitalized, or dead. See? How easy it's work. The best part of this website is the page just look like classic Yahoo! News page with the story you selected.

Fodey
If you’re looking to create a fake newspaper clipping, head over to Fodey. Just think up of a completely made-up story and have it look like it was published on some newspaper’s front page. It’s really easy to do. Type in name of the newspaper, the date, and start entering in whatever news article you can come up with. Then. you can get a newspaper clipping that tell about you fake stories.

After I realize this website, I start to not 100% believe in what I've read on the internet. If the fake news can easily produce, how can i believe in those news? But, in my opinion, we must searching for a really good source of news in the internet. Try to read the news from official news website such as CNN website. You can read these fake news just for entertainment and to make you laugh. :)


Yusuf Nur Adam
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Internet control your life?

Today, the world now, internet is a thing that really need in our life. If we cant get the internet connection, we will feel there's something that wrong in our life. It like something missing on our daily life. This is because, internet is the way for them to do some research, read the latest news, study on some facts, and many more. They use the internet daily to learn and to know something what's going on today. And, there's a question, is internet always right? Are they write the true
story?

For me, it is not. Not all website are right. We do not know who write the story or news. There's an example from comic below;

From this short comic, we knew that, it just a kid that not know much about the world. Then, he write the story on the certain website and we (the adult that knowledgeable) believe on what that kid write. After that, we start talk about the
things that we are believe on.



There's a other things that make I not really believe on internet is e-mail. Sometimes, i got an e-mail that talk bad about certain company or brand. Lastly, i knew that, they just want to make them down. It is like boycott. So people will not buy that brand anymore. This shows that they are selfish, think about themselves. They use the internet to make them popular and famous. This is totally wrong.

Bloggers or journalists. We do not know about the fact are true or not. From the example above, it a kid write the news. But sometimes, people that not really doing the research, write about something important. Then they think they always right, and they are the genius. But the truth is, they do not even know about that facts. So the people like this will make the whole thing up side down. And the people that going to study or research, will get the wrong information.

And the last thing, from what I heard, the west world planning to control the world through media. And this internet is one of the media. They write about something to change our thought. They will just look at the right-wing. So they don't really care about it true or false. There's a term fisking that to pull an article apart line by line to expose its inaccuracies.

Therefore, the internet is not always right. We need to do many research on something to get an original information. For those who love to write, you need to do deeply research on that issue before you publish it. Or not, you may be the one
who ruins the peaceful life.

Sheikh Ahmad Hafidz
1091103615

Internet. The new king in the world.

Nowadays, internet become more important than a televsion. Using internet, we can get entertainment stuff, political news, sport news, more faster then to wait infront of television.

From the research, we know, teenagers is the main users of the internet. And yes, they spent more time infront of the computer, laptop, handphone or anything that can connect to internet more then watching news on television. Same with what I use to do everyday, I spent more time infront of laptop, read blog, news.

And there sometimes, poeple will ask, do we believe 100% of what we read, what we see, what we hear on the internet?

To me, I dont trust 100% of what I read on the internet, but I think, what is posted in the internet sometimes is more interesting to read then hear it in television. This is because, people use internet as alternative media to post something that mainstream media cant publish it. Thats is the main reason, why I love to read more about something in the internet, ecspecially about the politic.

I know, some web/blog not posting the real fact about something, let say, politic. But then, I still love to read their blog/web. This is because, I can read their opinion about certain topic. But that doesnt make me to believe or make them influnce me on that issues. It just....I love to read it. I dont know why.

In my opinion, what have posted on the internet can make us to think more widely/deeply. Just like doing research on something, that is the way how we should do to "believe" on something. Dont "eat" it directly. Do more research on it. Read more article about it. Then only we can think rationally. Isnt it?

Just like happen in out country, we can see the power of internet influnce more people to talk, accept, think on certain issues then just accept on what mainstream media show in the television.

As a conclusion, we must think more about some issues, then just accept it, even from any media, mainstream media, traditional media. That make us a user, not a media-victim.

AWANG KHAIRUL AQMAL BIN AWANG YUNUS
1091103464

Internet

Internet. The source of all information. But, the question is, are they true?
That is the main thing we should have been considered. YES, you are right to say that, we can get all the info from the internet, but, not all the informations are true. Maybe some of them had been made up by others simply just draw our attentions. Internet are widely use around the world and same with the information you have taken. We cannot take 100% of the info, maybe its false and maybe its true. So, for me, i just take 50% from it, and the other 50% is based on my research. A research about the info. To know the truth. For an example, compare the info between 2 websites. And you will find it different if it is wrong and you will find it same if it s right. But dont simply trust it. Do compare it with other websites and you will know the truth about it.That is one of thing you can do in order to get the real info.

As you all can see, internet are widely use and so do the users, it all comes from around the world. And they are many things that they can do and so you. I mean, you can put anything in the internet even it is fake. But for some people, they would believe it. Same goes for you. Usually, all the info in internet are rare, what i mean here is, it cannot be publish in the public media but you can get it from the internet. How easy it is. That is how internet works. It always got our attentions.


But, there are some websites that you can rely on, can believe in. The official websites of some media. There are some info that you cant get it in the television but you can get in their official website. This is maybe because of the info itself, it maybe will offense some of the society. Or maybe it simply because they dont know the truth about it yet. So they just put in just to get our attentions. That is why you should do some research about it first, just to know is it true or not.
Like me, im always surfs the internet to get some info for my assignments and it is hard to get the real info about something, i have to do many research just to get one real info. Nowadays, people can do anything they want simply by using the internet.

As the conclusion, its actually based on our thinking. It is us that plays an important role. Its up to us to simply believe it or not. So, to all the internet users out there, think before you swallow it.



SHAHIRWAN IZHANI
1091102801

internet!

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail(taken from the wikipedia)

i always take information on the internet because it gices us important or picture that beautiful.sometimes i just take it for some important thing to redirect something or to show the people what im talking about in the internet like instance facebook or myspace.sometimes to show my feelings to other people by showing them videos that others person created.i totally do this because it will not harm me or others.if i shows some negative images it will effect some people but however it is cool to show some feelings to other although it is not important

EZRY EZAN B. ABU NOR RAZY
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Narrowing your view...

Image props to poivre :D

“Concealed”. That’s the only word I can describe how the media is able to do tremendous effect on its audience. It’s so powerful yet subtle. It’s so well concealed that the audience don’t realize that the media is changing perceptions and beliefs. Especially visually interpreted which makes it even more believable.

Honestly, I have very little awareness of media stereotyping in what I conceive from television, music, and movies. I never bothered and digest them with ease. Only by doing a little search and readings that struck me that the media is really playing a game on the audience. Wow!

I thought of logging on the keyword “racism in media” in google and sure enough there’s plenty to discuss and brought forward. In movies and TV program, film makers induce the audience into believing that certain human traits have a much specified personality. If you have a latin American in a film, you are sure to relate them to be from a slum and deals with drugs. If there’s an asian actor in an English film, he’s got to have super martial art ability. This stereotype trait makes it easy for film directors to portray a certain character of which the mass has already believed and accept. But, I’d say they are all deceived and narrowed to an extent that their social behaviors towards the victimized race are affected. Whether it be positively or negatively.

Speaking of conceal-ness, I read on stereotypes in children’s movies. I was surprised that in my younger years, I used to watch them! Movies like “The Jungle Book”, “Lady and the Tramp” and numerous other titles. I personally think it did shaped how I percept certain race.

Here are some examples;

In the Jungle Book, all animals in the jungle speak in proper British accents. Except, of course; for the jive-talking, gibberish-spouting monkeys which portray the blacks.

Even in Aladdin, portrays “bad” characters with very thick Arab accent while Jasmine and Aladdin has a very American English accent.

In The Lion King, the hyenas use African-American accents which are considered the bad guys.

See, whether it is intentionally or not; to make a film diverse in culture and language, I don’t think it’s appropriate for children to conceive the idea of simplified characteristic by stereotyping unless they are informed and explained of this inaccuracy. Because without it, they may form bias and prejudice towards other races.

It’s almost difficult to distinct whether their portrayals of certain races are true or false in the media. But one thing is for sure that simplifying a character with stereotype affects a lot on how audience percept on them (victims of stereotypes).

Brenden Undan

1091102247