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Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?

Organized by Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), 14th - 16 June 2008 at Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

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Main Authors: Hanif Suhairi, Abu Bakar, Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) 2008
Subjects:
Instant Messaging Services
IMS
Internet (Computer network)
Cyber-bullying
Real-time
Communication
Computer crimes
Instant messaging
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/1946
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spelling my.unimap-19462009-07-08T04:22:41Z Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying? Hanif Suhairi, Abu Bakar Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak Instant Messaging Services IMS Internet (Computer network) Cyber-bullying Real-time Communication Computer crimes Instant messaging Organized by Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), 14th - 16 June 2008 at Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. Instant Messaging Services (IMS) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet (Wikipedia, 2007). These wonderful gadgets are a blessing to those who seeks pleasure in communicating over the Net since it offers loads of fascinating features. Instant messaging allows instantaneous communication between numbers of parties simultaneously, by transmitting information quickly and efficiently, featuring immediate receipt of acknowledgment or reply. Instant messaging services may also provide videophoning, file sharing, PC-to-PC voice calling and PC-to-regular-phone calling. Instant messaging has promoted IP telephony because the IM software makes it easy to switch from "text chat" to "voice chat," providing the user has a headset or microphone and speakers (Answers.com, 2007). However, in recent times some chatters used IMS to upset other chatters to some extent driven victims to the brink of suicide and this is called cyber-bullying. There are two kinds of cyber-bullying, direct attacks and cyber-bullying by proxy (Stopcyberbullying.org, 2007). The intention of this paper is to look at Instant Messaging Services and it’s correlation to cyber-bullying, and how to cope with this new method of communicating that can end up with appalling consequences. 2008-09-04T09:05:16Z 2008-09-04T09:05:16Z 2008-06-16 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1946 en 1st International Conference on Communication and Media (i-COME 2008) Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
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topic Instant Messaging Services
IMS
Internet (Computer network)
Cyber-bullying
Real-time
Communication
Computer crimes
Instant messaging
spellingShingle Instant Messaging Services
IMS
Internet (Computer network)
Cyber-bullying
Real-time
Communication
Computer crimes
Instant messaging
Hanif Suhairi, Abu Bakar
Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak
Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
description Organized by Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), 14th - 16 June 2008 at Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
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author Hanif Suhairi, Abu Bakar
Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak
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Noormaizatul Akmar, Ishak
author_sort Hanif Suhairi, Abu Bakar
title Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
title_short Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
title_full Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
title_fullStr Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
title_full_unstemmed Instant Messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
title_sort instant messaging services: a perfect medium to cyber-bullying?
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
publishDate 2008
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/1946
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