期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：9
页码：275-284
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i9/4590
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Social media plays an important role as an application that enables users to manage and share the information and knowledge. Due to its effective mean for information management and sharing, lot of information domains are communicated and spread out using social media. With respect to politics and election domain, the use of social media is inevitable. This paper reviews the usage of social media and its impacts towards election landscape in Malaysia especially for 14th general election commenced recently. The purpose of this review is to highlight the role of information disseminated through social media and its impact on Malaysia’s Election. Through this highlight, readers capable of acknowledge and consider the role of information and knowledge channel by social media in larger setting. The review adopts the scoping approach in which articles on social media and the use of social media for disseminating political and election information have been gathered. The outcome of review is briefly presented in discussion section.
