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According to Reep, (2006) “Document design refers to the physical appearance of a document… the written text and its presentation work together to provide readers with the information they need”. As example 4.4 show, the group presented the introduction towards the topic and a general introduction was done to guide the readers the text by directing attention to the individual topics just as Barnhardt (2009) said “The physical fact of that text… requires visual apprehension: a text can be seen, must be seen…” which they have done.



Image 4.4 (taken prom IPD Group Presentation)

During the presentation, images help illustrate what the presenters want to say, using visual aids their able to project a certain view which readers can understand as text helps images. As example 5.5 shows when structured, text highly informative visuals share features of the text to help explain things that text alone cannot, according to Barnhardt (2009). I believe that my group presentation was composed and presented well, with visuals and text helping hand in hand to explain our views on Semiotics. The proportion of the placement of text and graphic aids was visible in the presentation Reep (2006).




Image 5.5 (take from IPD Group Presentation)


Reference List

Reep, Diana C. (2006) “Technical writing: Document design”. Ch. 6, pp. 133-172, New York : Pearson/Longman, c2006. 6th ed.


Stephen A. Bernhardt (2009), “College Composition and Communication, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 1986), pp. 66-78”. National Council of Teachers of English,
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/357383]

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Technology has given new pathways to communicate using different mediums such as the famous Twitter and Facebook, Twitter is a free social networking service that allows users to post their own 140 character messages post, where people can follow them and read, and for Facebook, things such as groups where by a user is allowed to “Join” a group of their interest receiving constant updates via that group for updates has change the way we get updated. According to Todd (2010) “It gives people the ability to update important matters, faster than newspapers and televised news can.” as Examples 2.2, 3.3 show.



Image 2.2 (taken from google.com/search)



Image 3.3 (taken from google.com/search)

For example in Malaysia, it has helped shift the way politics has been seen in the country. Since January, 2007, the Malaysian government has pushed back at bloggers with defamation suits and the arrest and interrogation of bloggers according to OSC Malaysia (2007). It been said that Malaysian law enshrines free speech as a matter of principle, but the Malaysian sedition law makes restrictions on what can be said about the government or about ethnic groups. The government must license print newspapers in Malaysia, and it has sometimes repealed publishing licenses to newspapers for printing controversial stories. Malaysian defamation law allows prosecution for astronomical damages. Malaysian assembly laws require permits for any gathering in public places (see Wu, (2006) for details). Organizations, even affiliations of bloggers, must have public, named officers.

Reference List

Kelsey, Todd. 2010 “Social Networking Spaces: From Facebook to Twitter and Everything In Between”, Apress, ISBN: 1430225963

Analysis: Tension Between Malaysian Bloggers, Authorities Appears To Intensify, FEA20070914318786. OSC Feature – Malaysia – OSC Analysis 13 Sep 07

Wu, Tang Hang. 2006. Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom: A Malaysian Case Study On Blogging Towards A Democratic Culture. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Malaysian Research Group In UK and Eire at Manchester Conference Centre, 4th June 2005.

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Blog communities take the idea of a social network at their core, in the sense that they strengthen communication and connections amongst different groups of people with a similar mindset and interest according to Blanchard and Markus (2004). Just imagine joining a blogging community where people can find and read your blog in such places as blogspot.com and, get your blog reviewed or even chat with other bloggers all around the world creating a community among users who have similar or larger interest weight values from the viewpoint of each user and in the building of community hosted blogging spaces said Boyd (2007).

Creating a blogging community is simple, for example a business community where the workers are allowed to voice out in an organisation to give say to ideas and provide feedback on actions in a manner not previously possible in a thin office environment instead of the normal quiet whispers in the office as Bausch, Haughey & Hourihan (2002) argue that while formal knowledge of blogs are understood, informal systems such as blogs provide an opportunity to capture knowledge where it is created in an organisation, sharing that knowledge throughout an organisation. Also personalised responses to news and messages are a simple means of developing an understanding of the collective knowledge of an organisation and a means of broadening that knowledge, thus creating 'intelligence' from 'knowledge' (see Pór & Molloy 2000).


Reference List

Blanchard, A. and Markus, M., 2004. The Experienced “Sense” of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 35, No. 1.

Pór, G. & Molloy, J. (2002). Nurturing Systemic Wisdom Through Knowledge Ecology. [Verified 6 June 2004] http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/kd/KE.pdf

boyd, d. 2007. A Bloggers Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium. Reconstruction 6(2006):30.

Bausch, P., Haughey, M. & Hourihan, M. (2002). We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs. New York: John Wiley & Sons, (Chapter 8). [Verified 6 June 2004]
http://www.blogroots.com/chapters.blog/id/4

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Most of the blogs I frequently visit online which belongs to Malaysians are technological, fashionable, personal, and automotive as I rarely visit blogs that are political due to the country unrest on bloggers who share their mind, I personally have stopped blogging because of the government’s pursuit into grabbing bloggers who speak their mind about subject matters because it is either their way or the highway.


Imgae taken from (google.com/search)

Technology has given mobility to bloggers snapping pictures from your mobile and then sharing them in the web (via: facebook, blogger, etc). These kinds of instant posting are constructed and updated right from the field with the help of a mobile device has become known as moblogs and the practice of producing one is called moblogging. The concept of “Moblog” was first introduced by Justin Hall (2002) and Adam Greenfield in 2002, and as the times pass is has since then changed to wireless blog, visual blog and others such as photo blogging has been introduced and coined. They all refer to a special kind of visualized blogging adding photos and more visuals via mobile like example 1.1 shows.




Image 1.1 (taken from google.com/pictures)



Moblogs can be categorized into either private/personal with one single author or collective with many authors who contribute to one moblog by sending their own pictures and adding text entries. The content of the moblog is by and large picture-based, although photos may be accompanied with text that may be either short descriptions or longer histories and narratives according to Doring And Gundolf (2005).

Reference List

Hall, Justin (2002) From Weblog to Moblog. TheFeature Archives. Thu Nov 21 2002. Electronic version. Retrieved Jan 10, 2007.

[URL:http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/topic/Media/From_Weblog_to_Moblog.html]

Döring, Nicola & Gundolf, Axel (2005) Your life in snapshots: Mobile weblogs (moblogs). In Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi,& Chris Locke (eds.) Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

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There are a large number of active blogs on the Internet with more launched every single day. Although much of them or rather the majority of what is discussed in the blogosphere is of little significance and short-lived interest to some, blogs continue to emerge as powerful organizing mechanisms, giving momentum to ideas that shape public opinion and influence their behaviour. In my opinion the blogosphere is indeed a great shift of changing attitudes and new schools of thought.

The size Malaysian social/political blogosphere (or ‘SoPo’, as Malaysians term it), its difficult to say, trying to predict the behaviour of Malaysian social/political blogging community (or one associated with some other country or region) will have to be able to state clearly some reasonable estimate of the community automatically. As one online survey estimates that 46% of those online in Malaysia have a blog according to Colette (2007).

Recently, Blogging in Malaysia has become somewhat noticeable in confronting apparent corruption in the national government in spite of strict governmental control of the major media According to OSC Malaysia.

For example the trends outside Malaysia are providing incomparable access to public opinion about events that happened. Even leading print newspapers like the New York Times publish only 15 to 20 of the 1000 letters they receive daily by people; by contrast, there are over 3000 blog posts that cite a New York Times story every day, including posts not in English Said Feyer (2004).



References List

Analysis: Tension Between Malaysian Bloggers, Authorities Appears To Intensify, FEA20070914318786. OSC Feature – Malaysia – OSC Analysis 13 Sep 07

Colette, Matt. 2006. Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asian. MSN Press Release. November 27, 2006.

Feyer, T., Editors’ Note; The Letters Editors and The Reader: Our Compact, Updated. New York Times, May 23, 2004