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YouTube spread scandal

Posted by chia chia on 12:08 PM
Video sharing websites is the faster and easy way for users to spread information and news to worldwide especially the “popular news”. It can be false romor, scandal or the truth story. Then, other website users will start fill in the comment box. If it is a bad news, there will be full of negative comment about that person in that news. Try imagine when you read a video title “ Chua Soi Lek and Video Lucah Johor”, what is your response? Are you curious with it? Do you believe it? 
Sometime, we cannot believe at all of what had been posted on video sharing websites. It can be edited by the user in order to damage someone reputation or the images in the video is unclear, so we cannot ensure that it is truth story UNLESS there has evidence to prove it. The video in below is about Chua Soi Lek admits the scandal is a truth in a media conference.
 In December 2007, there has a scandal video about Chua Soi Lek, Health Ministry Malaysia who was recorded without his conscious when watching porno video with his girlfriend in a room. Many of the viewers think that it is a shame not only for his family but also for Chinese community as he is the member of MCA. From this video sharing website, we can see that all of these comment describe him as stupid, immoral, curse him die and sarcasm him as Health Ministry who educate sex to public. As a Health Ministry and politician, he should be the good example for the citizens. However, he admits that he had done the wrong things and apologizes to the citizens. 
Once this scandal video is exposured to worldwide audiences, that person reputation had be damaged and it can affect his or her professional in that job and bring harm to family reputation too. As Kang states that video sharing websites can bring impact to a person current and future professional job and affect others people perception about that person. From these malicious comments, we can assume that the confidence of public toward Chua Soi Lek is severely reduced. 
However, it is dangerous if we insult someone based on the inaccurate rumor video as we can be suited. If we do not know the truth, better do not comment anything based on what we heard and see. Before posting video on website, we should think that whether there has negative effect or not and ensure the content of video can be viewed by others audiences. As public, we should analyze the scandal or gossip with rational thinking before say  something about it.           


Reference  
http://www.ehow.com/info_8356503_advantages-disadvantages-videosharing-websites.html

4 Comments


It is all about framing of the video. If the person found a video of someone looking like certain politicians or any big names people, blurred the video a little bit, people will directly believe what they saw. Well, as the saying said, what you see is what you get.


Yeaps. u're right manda. The video once implemented a schema of interpretation, for sure the people rely on the content and affect how they would respond to the video. Just see how the media framing effect is so powerful to turn him into a hateful person. This has provide one and only one angle of the story and sadly to say those who comment badly on Chua Soi Lek were really pay no attention to how it was framed and blindly receive the "fact". Fair comment and don't think I'm pro-government. =p


Without doubt, the agenda of this video is intended to hurt the reputation as well as the position of Dr Chua. The video sharing of the sex scandal video throughout the whole online community proves that the cyberspace world lacks of privacy. Anything can be posted and uploaded without the consent of the said person. Therefore, anyone can just film anything about us and manipulate it to tarnish and hurt our reputation. So, the ethical use of communication technology is always at stake because there are no specific guidelines to the usage of this new media.


Once again, this is a very similar incident as the Hong Kong actor - Edison Chen's case. With the convenience that these social media has brought into our life, much privacy has been violated (especially when you are a politician or someone famous with a reputation to bear with) . The leakage of photos or videos has often been a pain in the ass.
So next time, when you want to dig your nose in a traffic jam. Think twice =) You might be the next hit on youtube! =D

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