1. cell phone use is pervasive, even in remote rural areas. Many positive impacts. Some negative impacts include commercial fraud & unfounded scandals and political disinformation and misinformation.
2. internet use is extensive in the more urban areas & some rural areas especially in peninsular Malaysia. Many positive impacts; the major contribution to information sourcing for learning etc. Negative impacts include information abuse & misuse, especially through posting of false information.
3. traditional media especially television and newspaper still play a reasonable and formidable informating and knowledging roles, especially for political, promotional, and advertorial purposes. A very major issue is the usual alignment with political-financial power stakeholders, hence advertent and inadvertent biases are rampant.

Syed T S Hassan, 2200h, 4 April 2009.