week 7

The tutorial question for week-7:
Q1:Why is pornography the major theme on the Internet?
Q2:Discuss the purpose of social activitism and movements with relevant examples.
Q3: Why is violence equivalent to a virus? and discuss the types of violence that can be found on the Internet.
Q4: States the psychological features specific to the Internet..


The assignment question:
Assignment 3: The Internet is a place where hate groups come to inhabit. Discuss with relevant examples.
Assignment 4: Is web content protected by copyright laws or can it be considered as public domain information?
Assignment 5: "Criminals are drawn to the Internet because the cloak of cyberspace is virtually impenetrable". Discuss the statement.

Well...now talk about the question one.
Why pornography had become the major theme on the internet?It is because there are many channel available on cyber world for people to view it and it is the biggest business in internet. People like to view it online in stead of buying DVD or VCD is because it is free if they view it online. Besides, since they view it online, no people can recognize them and they can view it as much as they want.

the purpose of social activism and movement is :
1~ representation-eg. woman organization,they represent women and they voice out their opinion to let others know are they thinking.
2~information distribution-to spread some information,eg. some organization tell men that they can also get breast cancer but not only women will get it.
3~research- allow people to do research,eg. to get people opinion about NO SMOKING campaign.
4~cultural production-is something that about cultural thing in a country,eg. people is always think that Indian's status is lower than Malay and Chinese people, so they are some organization will come out and they that actually is not.
5~lobbying-is that the group of people want to maintain the relationship with government in order to change the policy,eg. Environmentalist maintain the relationship with government so that they can influence the policy (to set the rules that Saturday as the no plastic bag day)
6~collaboration-is something like some group of people cooperate to get some result that benefit they all,eg. political party they have many subgroup actually,during the election,they all will come together to get the vote from public.
7~ direct action- is mean to get something done,eg. they want Malaysian to stop smoking.
8~solidarity- mean that the people they all have the same interest,so they join together for the same purpose.
9~ fundraising- is to get money,eg. World Vision having some activity to ask people to donate to the people who need help.
10~tactical communication- to communicate with people through campaign,eg. A Malaysian being jail in Singapore for whole life, some Non Government Organization try to help him, so they ask more people to sign so as the evidence that many people is supporting him while the NGO is going to talk to the Singapore government.

violence equal to virus is because they both are dangerous and they will change from time to time, example like their tactics will change.
type of violence:
a~ group induced violence- happen because of the diffusion of responsibility, mean like when more people,people can't able to recognize all of them,so they maybe can escape of the responsibility.
b~ bullying-the feeling of want to control others
c~racial by motivated or religious violence-mean the violent happened caused by the recial or religious problems.
d~entrepreneurial violence- the people not really want to harm others but they just wan to get money.
e~relational violence- the purpose of them is to gain power and it is usually happen between boys and girls.
f~predatory violence-their goal is o violence you, they do so is just want to let u suffer.
g~terrorism- it is designed to make political change such as you want to change government by using booming,poisoning and etc.
**a-e and g is use violence to achieve their goals while f is their goal is to violence you

The psychological features specific on the Internet is:
1. identity is flexible~ can use fake identity
2.equalization status~people do not care how do look like, what is your race.....
3.transcends spatial boundaries~no boundaries,Uk or Malaysia is also same
4. access almost any part of the Internet~can get news in Indonesia even you are in Malaysia
5.loose self-boundaries-nobody look at you,so you can behave like a monkey on Internet.
6.lessening of inhibitions due to lack of physical contact and absence of physical and communication cues~you can chat with a person online for long time but still lack of the feeling of chatting
7.change their identity and virtual appearance~ since no one knowing you,you can just use others information as yours own and also can change your own out look.
8.base the community on anonymity and trust~people online built their community based on trust while in physical world community is based on experience and communicate with others.