Research Paper
Research Paper
Research Paper
SAINT ADELINE
85 Commonwealth Ave, Brgy Greater Fairview, Quezon City
Ellorda Jenny Q,
Year 2021
TABLE CONTENTS
AKNOWLEGEMENT………………………………………….
ABSTRACT…………………………………………………….
LIST OF TABLE……………………………………………….
Introduction…………………………………………………….
Background of the Study……………………………………..
Statement of the Problem……………………………………
Scope and Limitation…………………………………………
Hypothesis…………………………………………………….
Significance of the Study…………………………………….
Theoretical Framework………………………………………
Conceptual Framework………………………………………
Foreign Literature…………………………………………….
Local Literature……………………………………………….
ACKNOWLEGDEMENT
First and foremost, the researchers would like to thank God for
giving us the strength and capability to do this research. We would like to
acknowledge the guidance and support of our adviser Sir Mario Mark Corato
Carpio. His guidance is a huge help for us to finish this research. Without his
support, our research would not be as successful as it is.
We also would like to show our gratitude for our parents for giving us both
moral and financially support. We are grateful for their understanding that
there are times we stayed up late at night and for always encouraging us to
keep going.
Lastly, we would like to thank our fellow Grade 12 Humanities and Social
Sciences students for being cooperative to us for answering our
questionnaires and for their willingness as well. Overall, all of them are who
we are very thankful for. They had helped me so much throughout this
research.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
This paper is created to understand the pros and con's of social activism.
Social media platform help the user to engage with the trending cause so
the media activism done via sharing,tagging, liking, subscribing, hashstag,
videos or photos. This type of engagement has cause increase in social
media activism.
OBJECTIVES
The Objectives of this research paper is to determine the positive
impact of social media activitism as a modern world protest of HUMSS
students because it will outgrow the people who are using social media a
media as an activism, the positive impact will help us to be able to choose
between different media platform which will help to spread awareness of
what is happening in our environment through the hashstag of activism. The
best way that we can do for our community is to be the voice of everyone
and tell the different social issues that we are experiencing right now,
through the hash tag. I'm trying to find out if media activitism is effective as a
protest. On the other hand there’s need to know its negative effects so we
can avoid of having a problem in using it. I want to know if this is really
effective or not. The negative impact will help the researcher to find out why
social media activitism is not good platform to use as platform of protesting.
All in all my aims is to know the impact of this to the humss students because
they studying about the community development.
RESEARCH PROBLEM
The Problem, hereby, to address if social media activism is
effective as a modern way of protest especially for those HUMSS student
which is my target respondee. They are my respondee because that field is
studying about the community development which is the aim of making
protest they want a change in their country. People nowadays especially this
time of pandemic we can't make gatherings like protest, so the social media
platform is the most popular form of media that we can only use nowadys.
So I need to know whether there will be a change in the method we used as
a protest or if there is no real change, on the one hand whether the
traditional and modern methods have the same effect or not. My Research
paper wants to determine if social media activism can do anything to
change and solve social issues in our country. I need to know the positive
and negative impact of this to the HUMSS Student
1. Does the impact of Social Media Activism as Modern World Protest can be
considered as positive or negative?
2. In protesting through the help of social media, does it make more effective
for individuals to be heard than the traditional way of protesting?
HYPOTHESIS
This study is designed to detect and expose the hypothesis that the
Impacts of Social Media Activism to the HUMSS students can be either
positive and negative.
This study asims to find out the Impact of Social Media Activism as Modern
World Protest to Humanities and Social Sciences students in Datamex
College of Saint Adeline.
To the students, this will help them to acknowledge how social media
activism affects them as an individual and as a part of political community.
To the school administration, this will provide them the knowledge of
impacts of social media activims to the students and to distinguish if is it an
advantage or disadvantage.
To the teachers, this study will help them to clearly know how social media
works and how we works to it. If the impact is advantage, they will have the
idea to maintain it and if it is disadvantage, they will have know the ways to
make it positive.
To the future researchers, this research will serve as a baseline for the future
related topics.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The theoretical framework of this research is the structure that can hold or
support a theory of my research study. The theoretical
framework introduces and describes the theory that explains why the
research problem under study exists.
Writers presented in the second part of McCaughey and Ayer's volume have
applied social theories from different disciplines to elucidate our
understanding of specific online protest movements and to test the
applicability of these theories in cyberspace. Echoing Kidd's concerns about
the media, Lee Salter challenges those who have projected the bourgeois
public sphere onto the Internet without considering the breadth of
Habermas's scholarship. He argues that the Internet in itself is not the
bourgeois public sphere, but can be the foundation for one. As a result, "it is
imperative that Internet users take an interest in how they shape the
medium" because if they do not, corporations and governments will force
the "small-holders" into "heavily populated, controlled, and regulated areas
such as those provided by [AOL] and Microsoft Network" (138-39). In order
to understand how computer-mediation affects the formation of collective
identity within social movements, Michael Ayers, empirically studied an
online feminist movement (i.e., NOW Village) and an offline feminist
organization (i.e., Womenspace). Despite some of the acknowledged
limitations of his research methodology, Ayers learns that the online
movement's collective identity revolved more around personal goals rather
than political goals; in short, the participants were having difficulties fulfilling
the media's political potential. In contrast, Ayers speculates that
Womenspace has a more cohesive collective identity because of the
participants' proximity to each other. Garrido and Halavais hold up the
Zapatista Movement (from the southern Mexican State of Chiapas) as an
example of a grass roots organization that successfully bypassed the
traditional hierarchies of the Internet. After mapping the connections
between the Zapatista sites and other movements' sites, the writers
conclude, "a careful examination of this hyperlinked network of Web sites
provides a unique insight into the character of the Zapatistas' phenomenal
success, and particularly the degree to which the group has become a
catalyst for a transnational network of activists" (166). This chapter also
provides an in depth discussion about the useful methodology they use to
design their map.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
SENSE OF
RESPONSIBILITY
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Social Media is is a computer-based technology that facilitates the
sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through the building of
virtual networks and communities. By design, social media is Internet-
based and gives users quick electronic communication of content.
Power is possession of control, authority, or influence over others
Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants
without hindrance or restraint.
LOCAL LITERATURE
According to the communication scholar John Downing (2008) wrote about
how there is a shift in the focus on communication technology, particularly
mass media, from its uses “to a greater emphasis on citizen, activist, or
community engagement with issues and movements through the internet
and related technologies”. What tended to be more concerned about the
means by which communication was transmitted for political and cultural
movements and campaigns has now given more importance to both sender
and recipient. This acknowledges how technology today is continually
defined by human’s changing preferences and dictated according to which
best suits them at a certain time, that the decision on the form of media
ideally has to ultimately be in accordance to the trend.
This concept of alternative/activist media can be attributed to the use of
“tactical media”, which was popularized after the fall of communism in
Europe as a way to infuse an element of public discourse in an otherwise
artistic interpretation of dominant social, political, economic or cultural
order, albeit short-term and temporary. Geert Lovink and David Garcia were
two theorists behind the concept of tactical media. They argued, among
others, that political activism can only be sustained when there is “smaller,
episodic, nomadic, rapid-response moments of ‘resistance’, not
revolution.
Social media activism analysis is the type of a scientific and disciplined inqui
ry approach to research of protesting concerns, with the primary purpose of
determining its impact on students and assisting them in understanding the
importance of knowing and being aware of it.Secondary objectives of this r
esearch are to assist others in opening their minds as individuals and as me
mbers of a group.Finally, assist them in developing a sense of responsibility
and independence.
Four important steps separate a scientific and disciplined inquiry approach.
These are the following:
Recognize and identify a research question or
problem.Describe and carry out procedures for gathering data on the topics
and problems being investigated. Analyze the data you've gathered. Based
on the information analysis, state the outcomes or implications.
In this research paper, the respondents are the Humanities and Social
Sciences students in Datamex College of Saint Adeline as they are the targets
in this study too. Their experience in social media activism are the things we
are aiming to know to determine whether the impacts of it as a whole is an
advantage or disadvantage. There will be 36 humss students who will be
answering the survey questions we made through google docs.
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
.The researches employed probability sampling in this study which
involves setting a few parameters and randomly selecting 40 humss students
from a population at datamex college of Saint Adeline
With this selection criterion, all 40 students were given the same opportunit
y to respond and be included in the sample.
RESEARCH PROCEDURES
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
The number 1 question is all about the electronics that the respondents use
in the different social media platforms. So based on the summary of the
answer 35 respondent that are saying that they use phone is Smartphone or
touchscreen. But there 1 people saying that she use keypad. This question
proves that many people using a high-tech and upgrade kind of phone. So if
the phone is available gadgets to the respondents it have possible that they
companion to the different activism. They are open to see the different issue
of our world so she/he knows what happened to our world.
Based on the Second question all the respondents is saying that they are all
using Social Media. I got 100% of repondents, Social Media is one of the most
popular platform of communicaticcon and entertainment right now in the world. I
ask this question to determine if my respondee know or familiar to social media.
So now I can say that social media is very used by people nowadays
Based on the the third question 38.9% are saying that they’re not tried to been in
a protest or social movement while 30.6% is saying yes they tried to go in the
different protest or social movement and 30.5% saying that maybe yes or no
they go to the different protest. In this question the researcher want to know if
the reponendents try to attend a different protest or social media so that the
researcher determine they’re really know or understand what is protest and if
they have a care for it.
Based on the fourth question 42.9% saying that yes social media affected the
respondents to join any protest or movement while 31.4% that are saying No
social media not affected the respondent to join protest and 25.7% maybe. In
this question the researcher want to know if the respondents is trying to protest
just because they read or saw it on social media. The majority of this question is
saying that social media has a really big impact on people who are making a
protest or movement,
Based on the fifth question 55.6% of the respondent saying that Social Media
Activism should be official as a Modern World protest while 36.1% saying that
social media activism shouldn’t be official as a modern world protest and 8.2%
saying maybe it should or shouldn’t. The majority of the answer is saying yes it
should be official as Moden Worl Protest. The researcher want to determine if
the respondent want or agree to make the social activism as a modern world
protest. So in this survey question the respondents want to be official the Social
Based on the sixth question the lowest scale being rate is 1 with 2.8% next is 5
with 16.7% next is 6 with 2.8% next 7 with 19.4% next 8 with 25.7% next 9 with
19.4% and lastly the highest rate scale of the advantage of Social Media
Activism is 10 with 13.9%. The Highest rate scale of the impact of social media
activism an advantage is 8 with 25.7%, meaning it’s good to know that social
media activism has an advantage. The researcher want to determine if the
people see or understand the advantage of using social media platform as an a
Based on the Seventh question the lowest scale rate of the impact of social
media activism as disadvantage is 2 with 2.8% next 9 with 2.8% next 10
with5.6% next 4 with 8.3% next 3 with 11.1% next 6 with 13.9% next 5 with
19.4% an lastly scale rate of the impact of social media activism is 7 with
27.8%. 7 is not bad as a rate for the disadvantage of social media activism. The
researcher want to know respondent see any disadvantage of social media
activism, so that the researcher determine if there need to improve or change.
Based on this last question the researcher want to know the opinion of the
respondents regarding to their experience of using social media platform to hear
the all rants of the respondents in the different issue of our country. The
researcher want to determine if social media activism is effective. The majority
of the respondent is yes and 1 respondents say no. As a summary of their
opinion they said that the Social Media is a good Platform of saying our rants,
also social media platform is good for activism because people get attention of
the netizen so the government notice it. Also they aid that social media platform
is mean of communication so as it way has become the platform to say our
rants. Overall they agree that its very effective that thae social media activism is
become the modern way of protest.
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCULUSION AND
RECCOMENDATION
Overall, These research paper determine that the respondents
which is the HUMSS students is agree to use the social media
as activism in the modern world protest, Some are not but
based on the research paper the majority of the students want
it because of the popularity of the social media so as we can
see right now social media platform is good to tell our rants in
the different social issue. The highest rate scale of advantage
of Media activism is 8 with 25.7% not bad because they
already see that advantage of this in somewhat the
disadvantage is 7 with 27.85 not really bad as disadvantage,
Even though there’s some of problem so that people say
that it has an disadvantage. My conclusion is social media
activism will be more effective if people use it properly, social
media is a wide platform for communication and
entertainment so we can’t use it properly our rants will
become a piece of mess. As my recommendation for this
research paper I can say that now that we are in the modern
world especially with a high tech world we need to know what
is the purpose of using it, Now that we are facing right now to
the different problem of social issues especially of having
corona virus we can’t say our rants because we need to have
social distancing so the social media stand as a platform of
expressing our opinion . but Too much is bad if we can’t use
it properly and if we abuse it we can say our rants. I will
recommend the Social Media Activism as a modern world
protest so the government know our side as a netizen.
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PROOF OF SURVEY
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aEek1LDvtfSEj-
cXSejBTjg8jbYAavh9USZ49tcU6Ws/viewform?
fbclid=IwAR3XddDwMm6pJaSWT9uuj78y2lf8Ot0xBB
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