Cyber Defamation Awareness Among Adolescent: Case Studies in One Private Institution

Abstract

Defamation sounded itself is unprecedented proliferation. This unprecedented proliferation in information and communication technology (ICT) such as electronic mail (e-mail), chat groups, online forums, web logs (blogs), social media platforms and many others, our daily lives have changed significantly. This great feature allows Internet users to publish [25]and distribute information freely to the general public. Therefore, the finding of this research shown the level of awareness for cyber defamation among adolescent users is still at medium level which is 3.01. Awareness in cyber defamation cases among adolescent can practically differ from the perspective of early adulthood and the aim of this research is to increase the behavior of helping and academic shared writing. These findings should be the early initiatives in helping our students to be aware of this cyber defamation. Future research regarding this should be applied into the bigger population,respective fields and difference ranged because this research limit only for respondents on specific target (case studies) and these findings can not be generalized to Malaysian context.