Impact of Social Media on Malaysia’s Election Landscape

Abstract

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.

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