New forms of media publishing

Media technology improves radically and leads to the advancement forms of media publishing nowadays. Media publishing is no longer stick to the traditional newspapers, magazines and television news anymore. The use of Moblog, Vlogs, Photologs and a lot more are now growing at a quickening pace and turn to be part of people’s daily lives. Not only that, online newspapers are now available which readers do not need to purchase printed newspaper and gain information and news with just a click (thestar online).

One of the popular video-sharing website in Malaysia, YouTube enables people from the world to post up videos and watched them by just typing in keywords. It is convenient and enables the information and news to spread at speed to people around the world. However, it is not surprising that videos that contained unethical issues are posted up in YouTube. For example, a student from Muar, Johor has posted up a video clip of the song 'Negaraku' which contains negative elements such as racial issues and touched on religious sensitivity (dailyexpress.com 2007). This video carried anti-government messages and lead to massive sensational in Malaysia.

Negaraku video from YouTube

Referencing

Dailyexpress.com 2007, 'Negaraku' is outside police jurisdiction, viewed 12^th June 2009, http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=51920.