FA.
Topic:
Proposal
Introduction
Social
media have become important nowadays. According to Moore (2011, para.1), “social
media has changed the way people keep in touch in a negative way.” In contrast, some views say that social media
help people in communication “Facebook will let the people use the applications
without any personal information” (Valinsky, 2013, para.1). Regardless, we
cannot deny the social media have more advantages for people. However, there
are many of social media applications on phone devices such as Facebook, twitter,
Instagram and Snapchat; every person prefers one over the other. Moreover, many people use social media to tell
other people about their life “Facebook is a repository of someone’s life where
Twitter is like a thought-stream, at least in terms of usage“(McHugh, 2013, para.3). On the
other hand, there is another view says that social media has the negative effects
on the society. According to Burbach, (n.d.), social media has changed the way
people keep in touch in a negative way. Also, McAndrew & Jeong (2012, para.1)
say “males are more interested in number of friends and educational and
career accomplishments”. The argument about social media will continue between
people and that is a natural phenomenon.
Literature
Review:
There
are many studies that have addressed the issue of social media, but we will
choose some studies which have a relationship to our topic.
Here
are studies focused on the importance of social media in our lives. According
to Asur el al. (2011, para.2). ”development of social media and
the previous research about the popular topics in social media.” Also, the
author Hajli (2014, P.18), said, “Social media has presented new opportunities
to consumers to use it on the internet.” In addition, the author Lytle (2011, para.1), says, “Facebook provides an online job hunting
platform for students. We agree with saying that says the social media are very
important in these days.
On
the other hand, studies have studied the negative effects of social media on
the society. The author Moore (2011, para.2), introduced the topic of "Texting,
social media affecting teen sleeping patterns." He believes that the
teenagers keep their phones with them; therefore, they tend to wake up and
check their phones frequently during the night. Facebook users’ personal information is stolen
when filling names, addresses, cellphone numbers, and other kinds of
information for such an online survey. Al-Deen & Hendricks (2012, P. 12), said “For
researchers to investigate the theoretical implications introduced by social
media and lay the groundwork for a robust social media agenda potentially
spanning multiple disciplines.” We cannot deny that there are negative effects
in social media; in contrast there are more advantages come from social media.
The third
studies try to show numbers and statistics about social media. There is a study
address “ predicting the
determinants of users’ intentions for using YouTube to share video: Moderating
gender effects. Cyberpsychology,Behavior, and Social Networking,” (Yang, 2010, para.1). It tries to analyze gender differences
in choosing YouTube to share videos. The results of a survey “among 206 male
and 135 female video sharers on YouTube show that perceived ease of use and a
positive attitude are significant determinants of the intent to use YouTube to
share videos” (Yang, 2010, para.1). Moreover, there is study that was written
by McAndrew and Jeong (2012, para.2) that measured the relationship between age
and sex on Facebook. Also it included 284
males and 735 females; it
found females use Facebook more frequently than males. In addition, there is a study that was presented by Joiner et
al. (2014, para.1) called “Publically different, privately the same: Gender
differences and similarities in response to Facebook status updates.” They made a hypothesis that says “women
use affiliative language more than men on Facebook statuses; this study
consisted of 388 females and 207 males. The result was the females post and
publishes more than males. There are several measurements on these studies;
also we will make survey in this study to verify from these measurements.
Hypotheses:
1.
People
admit that social media have become very important in their lives.
2.
Students
will state that they do not believe social media affects their success in a
negative way.
3.
The
uses of social media differ between graduate and undergraduate students.
4.
There
will be no difference between men and women about using social media
applications
Reference:
Al-Deen, H. S. & Hendricks, J. A. (2012). social media: usage and impact. Lanham,
Md.: Lexington Books, c2012.
Asur, S., B. A. Huberman, G. Szabo, and C. Wang. (2011). Trends in
social media: persistence and decay. In 5th International AAAI Conference on
Weblogs and Social Media, 2011.
Burbach, C. (n.d.). ways social networking ruins friendship. About
Relationships .
http://friendship.about.com/od/Social_Networking/tp/Ways-Social-Networking-Ruins-Friendship.htm
Hajli, M. N. (2014). A study of the impact
of social media on consumers. International
Journal of Market Research.
Birkbeck, University of London. 2014, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p387-404. 18p.
Joiner, R., &. Stewart C., et al. (2014). Publically different,
privately the same: Gender differences and similarities in response to Facebook
status updates. Computers in Human Behavior, 39(0): 165-169. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563214003707
Lytle, R.
(2014). Social media users are more charitable than you might think. Mashable
website.
http://mashable.com/2014/09/18/social-media-charity/
McAndrew, F. T., & Jeong, H. S. (2012). Who does what on
Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use. Computers
in Human Behavior, 28(6), 2359-2365. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212002075
McHugh ,
M. (2013, Sep. 3). Why do we hate Facebook Hashtags. Digital Trends http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/why-do-we-hate-facebook-hashtags/#!bNSzV7.
Moore, E. (2011, August 19). Texting, social media affecting teen
sleeping patterns. The Daily Iowan. Retrieved (September 18, 2014).
Valinsky, J. (2013, April 30). You can soon access apps on Facebook
without handing over any personal information. The Week Retrieved http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/26080/speedreads-you-can-soon-access-apps-on-facebook-without-handing-over-any-personal-informatio
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