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The Author Is The Coordinator For Youth Empowerment for Development Ministry ---- Malaysia Network

Welcome!

Hye..here we meet again..Welcome to the 4th Edition of Youth@Media. How about the last issue? Do you like the featured topic? I hope so. We at Youth@Media really work hard to improve our performance. So, I hope, you guys, out there, please do not hesitate to drop a line to our mail box!

As the past months, we have been exposed with global issues such as HIV/AIDS (March 2004), Children and Youth Sexual Abuse (April 2004) and Poverty and Globalisation (May 2004).

Now, we have come to the fourth issue, where the topic of Media and Society will be reveal! Just stick with us...we will give you a brief explanation and cases study on Media!

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Why care about media?

The media play a huge role in our lives.

We spend countless hours exposed to television, radio, CDs, books, newspapers, magazines, billboards and the Internet. These media inform our ideas and opinions, our values and our beliefs. They reflect and influence our culture through arts and entertainment.

As such, they play a vital role in our democracy, shaping citizens' understanding of social and political issues and functioning as gatekeepers through which issues, people, and events must pass. No matter what you care about gun rights or abortion rights, the environment or economics the media influence the perceptions of citizens and policymakers, affecting the policies that touch us all.

Media must not be considered just another business: they are special institutions in our society. Information is the lifeblood of democracy and when viewpoints are cut off and ideas cannot find an outlet, our democracy suffers.

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"Media and Society". Here are some related topics that we will talk about on  this issue:
 
 
 
 
 

 

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The Author Is The Member of IFRC

* The Author wants to welcome Trevor Kellog and his Delegates (The Reality Check and The World Wide Youth Movement Against The Tobacco Company's) to Malaysia. They will be in Malaysia for a campaign of anti-smoking. They will be working with Malaysia's Ministry Of Health and also with a several youth groups associated with the National Tabloids and Newspapers.
 
Also participates are The Fresh Breath Club from Penang which is sponsored by the Poison Control Center/University of Malaya and also the Tobaccco Control Clearing House in Penang which is associated with the World Health
Organization. Wait for them this July!

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The 9th Malaysian Video Awards (10th to 17th September 2004)