Mya Sheynicka Yanson ENG 27-NB The Influence of Social Media on the Behavioral Aspects of a Teenager Background and History of Social Media Social media has been a part of our lives since its debut in the 90’s and as people always wanted means of communication towards other individuals, it has become our new way of interacting with them. According to Bank 2014, Social media is more of a process which includes communication towards another individual wherein there is swapping, making and imparting
Today, media is so powerful that it could shape and influence people’s attitudes, beliefs, values, and lifestyles. It is so powerful that it could bring social change to the society through the use of multimedia to disseminate informations and advocate social change. Some examples of this wherein media was being used for a change are the use of Facebook to post the disagreement of people to death penalty wherein people would want to stop this death penalty and the use of facebook, twitter, and other
With the rise of globalization over the passing years, western media, specifically American and European film, television, and publications, have been able to reach a worldwide audience and influence smaller countries. As one of these countries, the Philippine entertainment industry has since then morphed into an institution where Caucasian beauty is presented as “ideal.” This could be seen as problematic by failing to represent the Filipino norm of brown skin and opting instead to feature fair-skinned
opportunity for Jiro because more people can be their potential customers, causing them to have an increase profit in the future years that are coming. 2. Filipinos adapt Japanese taste Being exposed to the influences from the Japanese occupation and until now, Filipinos still acquired and adapt their taste. Moreover, it is the nature of Filipinos to love trying different food that is far from what
Tech Savvy Filipino Millennials called Phillennials (Fillennials) were born at the dawn of the new age, between 1980 and 2000 where technology was already available. Being born at the center of the digital revolution, millennials are considered to be the digital natives. They have been exposed to fast-changing technology where they can find out anything through the internet. In a study entitled “Connecting with the Millennials” sponsored by Visa, one in two Filipino Millennials said that they cannot
Hananiah M. Tulalian JOU21 Feature Writing about Typhoon Ruby TYPHOON RUBY: FILIPINOS ALREADY LEARNED The Filipinos became alert when PAG-ASA forecasted that there will be coming typhoon, internationally called as Typhoon Hagupit and locally known as Typhoon Ruby. The people became more alert when they got informed that the coming typhoon is stronger than Typhoon Haiyan (locally called as Yolanda) who killed more than 14 million people and left 7,000 dead or missing people until now, according
Existing literatures trying to explain how Filipinos absorb information they get from online sources seem to be crude. More specifically, there have been no studies done to explore how information provided by different internet sources prompts Filipinos to exchange knowledge among peers and eventually result into social mobilization. The advancement of technology has brought us not only the easiness of communication and being connected, but also made us closer and to anything happening around us
I. Introduction Religious conviction among Filipinos today is as overwhelming, dynamic and across the board as it ever has been. Around ninety percent of Filipinos proclaim a confidence in God, and religion remains a pervasive impact on the Filipino society, and legislative issues. In the event that we consider legislative issues as including the acknowledgment and compromise of contradicting interests inside a given unit of guidelines, and religion as the base of the greater part of the significant
Damaging a politician’s reputation through social media has been prevalent in today’s generation. From around 1936, the phrase “smear campaign” has already been popular (Thomas & Hersen, 2002). In here, a smear campaign is an effort to damage or call into question someone’s reputation, by propounding negative propaganda (Thomas & Hersen, 2002). It can be applied to individual or groups but common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists or even ex-spouses. Nowadays
leads to them forgetting about the experience all in all. Same goes with society collectively, especially with happenings that can be considered as negative and traumatic to the Filipinos. This act of remembering and forgetting, some of which has occurred in the history of the Philippines, more or less defines a Filipino. This is a result of what people choose to remember and not to remember about their history which says something about their identity both as an individual and as a nation. This