I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

How make Filipino kids integrate the Internet and nomadic phone into their mundane life and equal and household relationships? This survey is a response to a suggestion by Sonia Livingstone ( 2003 ) to look into farther children’s relationships in the new media environment. It besides seeks to turn to the deficiency of empirical surveies on Filipino children’s battles with and in the new media. specifically the Internet and nomadic phone. Why kids? As kids become more open to new media through school and Home. it is of import to look into how they use and appropriate these engineerings in their mundane life. Make these engineerings allow for continuity or alteration in children’s experience of leisure. school. equal and household relationships?

II. HYPOTHESIS

No declared hypothesis in the survey.

III. RESEARCH METHOD

III. a Research Design
Since the aim is to place. describe and explicate children’s activities in the new media environment and how they use these engineerings. a qualitative design was employed for the survey. This attack allows us to examine farther into the contextual kingdom of children’s battles with and in the new media.

III. B Instrument

Datas were gathered through a deepness interview usher. which allowed respondents to narrate and explicate their utilizations of the Internet and nomadic phone every bit good as their relationships online. The following are the constructs investigated and the corresponding inquiries:

a. Access and Usage of the Mobile Phone/Internet

1. How did you come to have one? Why?
2. How long have you been utilizing a nomadic phone?
3. How frequently do you utilize the phone?
4. Where do you hold Internet entree? Why?
5. How frequently do you utilize the Internet? Why?

B. Uses and Contexts of the Mobile Telephone
1. What do you make with your cell phone? Why?
2. What types of messages do you direct? Why?

IV. Decision
Admiting the deficiency of empirical surveies on kids and new media. this survey asked how a sample of Filipino kids integrated new media into their mundane lives and in their relationships with equals and household members. It sought to understand the utilizations of the Internet and nomadic phone in the context of place ( household life ) . school. and leisure activities of kids. A contextual attack to the usage of new media looks at how these engineerings are incorporated into mundane modus operandis and acknowledges how values and societal patterns influence new media utilizations. By comparing Internet and nomadic phone utilizations. this preliminary survey sought to determine the significances of these two different but related media among Filipino kids. Data suggested that the contexts of household. school. and leisure defined the utilizations of the new media. The Internet was used chiefly for information seeking related to school and involvements. relational care ( friends and relations ) and leisure.

On the other manus. the nomadic phone was used for organizing daily practicalities. relational care among household members and equals. and was deployed by parents as a agency to supervise their children’s whereabouts and activities. In bend participants construed the medium as an extension of parental presence. The survey besides probed into household and peer relationships of participants in the new media environment. The end was to supply grounds that would back up or belie sentiment sing the potency of the medium as an environment where societal dealingss are created or maintained. Findingss suggested that the media were used chiefly to keep the participants’ bing societal webs instead than making new 1s. Rarely was the medium used to make new dealingss. It is of import to observe that bing relational kineticss in the household mostly influence interactions on the nomadic phone. Although the phone provided handiness. it was non a warrant in bettering dealingss between parents and kids. and among siblings.

IV. Analysis
The obvious alteration is the handiness and convenience that these new media provide to ease information hunt and communicating. The impact can be seen in the manner kids do research and respect reading books. As the survey unveiled. participants tended to pass less clip in the library and acquire their stuff alternatively online. where information is easy copied. The ways school kids do research on the Internet could be investigated in future surveies. This determination besides suggests a demand to stress critical media literacy among immature people that would develop them to be critical consumers and users of on-line information.

About all of the Filipinos of today are well-oriented when it comes to latest appliances and its utilizations. particularly the striplings who used this in about all of the clip. However. there is a large job when it comes to the “proper” usage of engineering. Some Filipinos tend to be mistreating the true kernel of engineering. Some used it for cyber intimidation and any kind of offense related to this. Handiness does non needfully change bing societal and cultural patterns ; for illustration. participants tended to pass on more within their web of dealingss. Indeed for this sample of kids. Filipino household and peer relational kineticss still find their manner in the new media environment.

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