European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine ISSN 2515-8260 Volume 07, Issue 08, 2020 490 Malaysian Social Media Postings And Public Agenda Setting Review In The Portrayal Of Interpersonal Violence Norizzati Saifuddin*, Hasmah Zanuddin b a Ph.D student, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Malaya; MALAYSIA b Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Malaya; MALAYSIA In Malaysia, the cases of interpersonal violence were enormously increased. People are exposed to the online network and interlink to one another. Hence, agenda setting study can be broadened by including social media as another media platform. The objectives of this research are to study the issue, the salience level and the sentiment emotions of the issue in the social media. The selected social media platform are Facebook and Twitter. This research used quantitative content analysis. Holsti test tested the reliability of the instrument. 420 social media postings selected using Krecjie and Morgan table. Non- parametric test was used to test the variable of this study. Chi-square statistical hypothesis testing found there is significant association between the independent variable that is social media and dependent variable that is the public agenda. From this research, the result showed that social media provide an important role to the public agenda to make Malaysians aware of the importance of interpersonal violence awareness in Malaysian society. 1. INTRODUCTION World Health Organization in 2006 defines the interpersonal violence as the behaviour that involved physical force, with or without intention to injure another person, which may lead to death, psychological torture or cause of damage. In regards to the types of interpersonal violence it can be determined to by five category of interpersonal violence that consist of youth violence, child maltreatment, intimate violence, elder abuse and sexual violence. The sad reality of interpersonal violence issue is that it often occurred with someone they knew and the behaviour has become normal as the abusive behaviors have often occurred in the society Organization, 2006). The seriousness of the issue can be seen on the increased on domestic violence in Malaysia from 2014-2016 with 15,617 cases according to the statistic by Royal Police of Malaysia (PDRM) and male is also exposed to become the victims by 26 percent of is which equivalent to 4,029 victims are not female (Asyraf, 2017). Referring to Federal Police Sexual, Women and Child Investigation Division Assistant Principal Director, Assistant Commissioner Ong Chin Lan said that the highest abuses occurred between 2014 to 2017, were involving physical acts such as beating, smacking, kicking, hitting with tools as iron