Exploring the Digital Landscape in Malaysia

I’ve been provided with a report by UNICEF Malaysia entitled “Exploring the Digital Landscape in Malaysia”. It has quiet a bit of interesting facts and figures. Some of them are:-

1. One study based on data collected in 2010 and entitled Young people and New Media—Social uses, Social shapings and Social consequences, 50.5 per cent of the respondents aged 14–16 spent four or more hours a week phoning and texting, social networking and playing new media games using a variety of tools. About 17 per cent of them spent more than 12 hours a week on such activities. Respondents who reported sending and receiving over 80 text messages a week were significant: 29.8 per cent received in excess of 80 text messages a week, while 27.8 per cent sent in excess of 80 messages a week. More than a third (35.6 per cent) of respondents spent between one and 12 hours a week in cyber cafes; of these, 2.9 per cent spent 12 hours a week in cyber cafes

2. 68 per cent of participants in the CyberSAFE in Schools National Survey 2013 reported using the Internet for social media and 44 per cent use the Internet to do research for school. Social media use was higher among the older age groups (16–18 and 18+), with more than three-quarters in these age cohorts reporting that they use social media.

3. Young Malaysians are active users of social media, and children and young people (aged 13–24) make up nearly half of the Facebook users in the country

4. In the CyberSAFE in Schools National Survey 2013, one-quarter of the students said that they had been bullied online at some point. Half of them said they had never been bullied and others were unsure. Half of the participants knew at least one person being bullied online. Common forms of cyberbullying included someone being rude or sending nasty messages, being left out or ignored. Cyberbullying using Facebook and blogs is the most common, followed by SMS.

5. To date, Malaysia has not introduced specific legislation targeting crimes against children or adolescents as they interact with others through the Internet.

Read more about it at http://www.unicef.org/malaysia/UNICEF_Digital_Landscape_in_Malaysia-FINAL-lowres.pdf.


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