Abstract
A Survey on the Culture of Online Shaming: A Malaysian Experience
Highlights
Social Media and Online Shaming This study surveys the culture of online shaming in Malaysia
This study investigates the culture of online shaming in Malaysia, with Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) law students have been selected as the population of survey
The findings of survey raised an alarm on the worrying state of the culture of online shaming in Malaysia
Summary
Social Media and Online Shaming This study surveys the culture of online shaming in Malaysia. Online shaming frequently involves the publication of private information of a person on the internet (called doxing) to intimidate the person. Online shaming emerged from the internet community response to the anti-social behaviours that may not necessarily require police action (Ho, 2015). The internet provides an avenue for enforcement of customs, values and behaviours and empowers the public to act upon any violation or to right injustices by publishing them online with the intention of shaming the offenders (Klonick, 2015). Judging by its objectives and functions, online shaming is both an act of internet vigilantism which is a mode of informal regulation within online communities as well as a form of cyber social control (Wehmhoener (2010), Phillips and Miltner (2012)
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