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I. STATEMENT FROM THE PROBLEM Just how do Filipino kids integrate the Internet and cellular phone into their everyday life and peer and family members relationships? This study can be described as response to a suggestion by Sonia Livingstone (2003) to investigate additional children’s interactions in the new media environment.
It also attempts to address having less empirical studies on Philippine children’s engagements with and the new press, specifically the web and cellular phone. Why kids? As kids become more exposed to new press through institution and Residence, it is important to look at how they use and suitable these technologies in their everyday routine. Do these types of technologies permit continuity or change in children’s experience of amusement, school, expert and relatives relationships? II.
HYPOTHESIS No stated hypothesis in the analyze. III. EXPLORATION METHOD III. b Device Data had been gathered by using a depth interview guide, which in turn allowed participants to narrate and explain their uses of the Internet and cellular phone as well as their very own relationships online.
The following are the concepts researched and the related questions: a. Access and Usage of the Mobile Phone/Internet On the other hand, the mobile phone was used for coordinating day-to-day practicalities, relational protection among family and peers, and was deployed by parents as a means to monitor their children’s whereabouts and activities. Consequently participants construed the medium as action of parent presence. The research also probed into as well as peer human relationships of members in the new media environment. The aim was to present evidence that would support or perhaps contradict thoughts and opinions regarding the potential of the method as a setting where interpersonal relations are set up or maintained.
Findings suggested that the media were employed primarily to keep the participants’ existing social networks rather than creating new kinds. Rarely was the medium utilized to create fresh relations. It is necessary to note that existing relational dynamics in the family typically influence connections on the cellular phone.
Although the phone provided availability, it was not a guarantee in improving contact between parents and kids, and between siblings. Almost all of the Filipinos of today are well-oriented when it comes to newest gadgets as well as uses, especially the adolescents who have used this kind of in the majority of the time. Yet , there is a serious problem when it comes to the “proper” make use of technology. Several Filipinos often be mistreating the true essence of technology.
Some ever done it for web bullying and any sort of criminal offense related to this kind of. Accessibility does not necessarily adjust existing sociable and social practices; for example , participants tended to communicate more in their network of relations. Indeed for this test of children, Filipino family and expert relational dynamics still discover their way in the new media environment. V. REFERENCES http://www.amic.org.sg/Resources/Research_Materials/Media_Youth_and_Children/Filipino%20Children%20Uses%20of%20the%20Internet%20and%20Mobile%20Phone.pdf
