Ruth English Research

8/4/2019 Ruth English Research

1/26

NEW ERA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN CIVIL

ENGINEERING IN NEW ERA UNIVERSITY

Proponent:

Ruth Mojico Pawaan


2/26

CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND


3/26

As todays generation goes through very swift phase

changes, the youth become more demanding in obtaining

technologies that will attend to their needs, especially in

when it is concerned with their studies. Without a doubt

the access to the Internet or the World Wide Web is so

easy nowadays and many benefits can be gained from it.

The use of this accessibility is applied mostly on the

professionals such as tycoons, medical practitioners, and

even government officials. The objective of their utilization

of the Internet is different in terms of their needs and

various marketers apply their expertise on it. However, it

seems to be a fact that the growing numbers of users are

members of different social networking sites and most of

them are students.

So networking sites are commonly the references of the

netizens in the cyber world who use these sites for news,

blogging or video blogging, video streaming, chatting, research,

and live conferences. The sites that the netizens usually visit

first when entering a computer shop or either using laptops or

desktops are the social networking sites.


4/26

In this technological era, the social networking industry is

fast growing and being used at almost all times as it is widely

sweeping the globe, basically most of the people around the

world starts their working day with these sites in the World Wide

Web, but the majority of the population in the cyber world are

the students that doesnt only use their time in researching or

studying but also in these sites that consume most of their time.

Statement of the Problem

Most if not all of the students today spend most of their

time socializing on the internet than focusing on studies. Every

now and then when entering the computer shops it can be seen

that it is completely filled up with students logging into their

Face book accounts, Yahoo accounts, and MySpace accounts

among many others. It does not sink into their heads that

valuable and precious time is wasted on their endeavors on the

internet. The matters in question here are:


5/26

1. What are the academic performances of Civil Engineering

students toward their Family, Friends, Teachers, and

Others?

2. What is the profile of the students in terms of year level,

age, gender?

3. What is the profile of the students in terms of preferred

SNS, frequency of SNS usage, purpose of using SNS and

number of SNS friends?

4. How many hours do the Civil Engineering students use

SNS?

5. How do social networking sites affect their studies?

Assumptions of the Study

The assumptions of this research are that since technology

plays a major part in todays society it has to have an effect on

the students in their studies, whether good or bad. Therefore,

the aim is to find out whether they are either motivated in their

studies or slacking off in their studies when they use the social

networking sites.


6/26

Conceptual Framework

Social networking sites such as Face book offer users a

convenient method for maintaining a large number of weak ties.

While maintenance of strong ties typically requires significant

commitments of time and energy, weak ties may be managed

solely through the connections that link Face book friends.

Face book allows users to stay up-to-date on their weak ties

lives simply by viewing the information available in those

friends profiles and by connecting through actions such as

pokes, private messages, wall postings and photo comments.

By offering multiple methods of interaction, Face book saves

users significant time, thus enabling them to create and

maintain a massive social network, although one predominantly

composed of weak connections between users. For example, a

recent survey found that the average user had 180 friends on

the website, which is far more friends than the average person

would say they have in the real world (Golder et al., 2006).


7/26

In cases where factors such as distance change a face-

to-face relationship into a primarily online relationship, strong

ties are maintained and even strengthened further. Social

networking sites is a tool for person to keep in touch with his

distant friends by following their updates, sending a message or

posting commentsusers have a quick and easy way to stay

connected thus keep the student healthy when they are too

busy to commit more time to face-to-face interaction (Vitak,

2008).

Scope and Delimitation of the Study

The coverage of this research is focused on only the Civil

Engineer students of New Era University. The aim is to find out

how effectively social networking sites have affected their ways

of studying over their two years stay at New Era University and

how it continues to do so. The reason of choosing to research

on the 2nd year students of New Era University was that the

research needed to be focused on students who had just


8/26

started their journey in university but had at least an experience

of university life.

Significance of the Study

This study is concerned to learn the effects of social

networking sites on the students, to understand how the users

motives, attitudes and behavior in order to know why such time

is wasted socializing on the internet. Through this, the study is

conducted and expected to have results based on the surveys

and the proponents research with the students who are always

in the computer surfing the internet and socializing in it.

For non students, this study is also for those who are in

need of references regarding the focus of the study, especially

the students and professionals, to understand the effects of

socializing in the cyber world because it is what is common in

this era of the World Wide Web.


9/26

Definition of Terms

Blogging are frequent, chronological publication of personal

thoughts and Web links.

Cyber WorldFacebook is the leading social networking site in

the World Wide Web

Internet is a global system connected to all sites accessed in

the World Wide Web.

Myspace is a social networking site focusing in music and

social networking.

Netizens are the citizens ion the internet

Online Chatting is usually, this "talking" is the exchange of

typed-in messages requiring one site as the repository for the

messages (or "chat site") and a group of users who take part

from anywhere on the Internet.


10/26

Social Networking is socializing online in the World Wide

Web.

Social Networking Sites are the sites where social networkers

spend their online socializing.

Surfing is online networking and browsing.

Video Blogging posting videos online video publication in the

internet.

Video Streaming is online video watching and updating via

video streaming.

Web Conference is like a meeting in person but in this

conference it is done online in the internet.

World Wide Web a system interconnected around the internet

and interlinked http documents uploaded in the net.

Yahoo is a one of the biggest search engine in the internet.


11/26

CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND RELATED STUDIES


12/26

This chapter contains the review of related literature of

the study and the justification of the conceptual and research

literature gathered from books, journals, researches and online

sources.

Literature

According to Vitak (2008), there are some reasons why Civil

Engineering students use a social networking site. The first

reason is for them to meet strangers and become friends with

them. This type of relationship is what we call a weak

interpersonal relationship. The majority of respondents of her

research paper (57%) said they were initially introduced to

those friends through mutual friends, which increases the

likelihood of such relationships developing into strong ties. On

the other hand, responses to a separate question

overwhelmingly support the hypothesis. While a significant

portion or respondents said they have at least a few online-

online friends, 85% said they do not communicate with the

majority of their online-only friends, and just one respondent


13/26

said that he/she considered those friends as a strong tie.

Through social networking sites like face book, the user tends

to maintain his weak interpersonal relationship with his online

friends because of an easy communication. He can use private

messaging, chat rooms, and other method of communicating

provided by the website. On the other hand, a strong

interpersonal relationship with his offline friends needs time and

effort to be maintained.

Social networking sites have added entirely new

meanings to interpersonal interaction and community. It is the

interplay between internet and real life communication and its

subsequent effect on interpersonal relationships. Popular social

networking websites such as Face book have bundled many of

the internet communication standards such as e-mail, forums,

and instant messaging into one resource. However, its usage

has become a staple activity in a young adults life. While it

varies slightly among gender and race groups, overall, young

adults (college aged) who have internet access use Face book

regularly for some type of social contact. With this mass

assimilation into daily life, it has already begun to change the


14/26

way in which interpersonal civil engineering students are

defined. It is one of the, if not the top medium for young adults

to scope out and research potential partners. With Face

book playing a large role in many romantic relationships; its

important to see how this will continue to shape interpersonal

communication in the future. The importance of this research

proposal is to look at how Face book is an extension of real life.

Studies

This related studies and concepts helped in determining

the influence of social networking sites on the interpersonal

relationship of Civil Engineering students in New Era University.

This supported and validated or reversed the ideas of Matsuba

and Golder (2006), and Vitak (2008). There were some studies

conducted that dealt with social networking and its effects

towards teenagers in different aspects. Interpersonal

relationship, particularly that of Civil Engineering students in

New Era University, isn't one of those aspects, although some


15/26

of the aforementioned studies have tackled somewhat similar

aspects to that of the one being studied on by the researchers.

CHAPTER 3

METHOD OF RESEARCH


16/26

This chapter contains Research Design, Sampling

Technique, Research Instrument, Data Gathering Procedure

and Statistical Treatment of Data.

Research Design

This study used descriptive research design. It involves

the description, recording, analysis, and interpretation of the

present nature, composition, or processes of phenomena. It

focuses on prevailing conditions or how a person, group, or

thing behaves or functions in the present. It often involves some

type of comparison or contrast.

The researchers used the survey technique which is

under descriptive research design. Survey technique, requires

gathering of facts that requires sufficient and accurate

interpretation. This technique is used to collect demographic


17/26

data about respondents behavior, beliefs, opinions, interests

and the like and then the gathered data are analyzed,

organized, and interpreted.

Sampling Technique

The researchers used purposive sampling. This sampling

method included respondents that fall under the purpose of the

study and others that are not useful for the study are positively

excluded. The study focused on the effects of SNS to the Civil

Engineering students thus a survey is conducted to the Civil

Engineering students of New Era University that are using

social networking sites every day.

Research Instrument

The researchers used questionnaires and survey forms

as research instruments. The survey form asked if the

respondents are using social networking sites and their

frequency of using the sites. After determining those who use


18/26

social networking sites everyday, the questionnaire asked for

the profile of the respondents and the status of their academic

performances.

Statistical Treatment of Data

The researchers used the following formulas to analyze

the results of the survey:

Frequency is the number, proportion, or percentage of

items in a particular category in a set of data, while percentage

is the proportion or share in relation to a whole. This technique

is used to determine the percentage of our respondents out of

total population in terms of frequency of using Social

Networking Sites. Through this, the researchers also

determined the percentage of the respondents who are affected

by the influence of social networking sites. The formula for

frequency and percentage is:

fP =------- x 100 %

N


19/26

Where:

P is percentage

f is number of respondents falling under a particular category

N is total number of population

CHAPTER 4

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATION OF DATA


20/26

In this chapter, the data gathered by the researchers has

been tabulated, analyzed and interpreted to get a meaningful

conclusion about the data.


21/26

CHAPTER 5

SUMMARY OF THE STUDY, FINDINGS,

CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS


22/26

Summary of Findings

The research was conducted for the purpose of finding

out the effect of social networking sites to the academic

performance in Civil Engineering in New Era University. The

descriptive method of research was used and the descriptive

survey technique was used by the researchers in gathering

data. The researchers made use of questionnaires for the

gathering of data. The sampling technique used was purposive

sampling technique. The researchers used 20 respondents for

this research.

After analyzing the data gathered by the researchers,

they arrived with the following conclusions:

1.) Using social networking sites helped the respondents to

develop a strong interpersonal relationship with their family,

friends, teachers, and with others.

2.) Most of the respondents are using Face book just to have

fun and entertainment because of its available features for the

users.

3.) The respondents are cautious with the strangers that they


23/26

meet in SNS's because of having a limited friends added to

their account that they know.

4.) The respondents intend to open-up more with their friends in

social networking sites than with others.

5.) Most of the respondents use social networking sites for only

1-2 hours in a day.

Recommendations

Based on the conclusions that the researches made, they

have formulated the following recommendations:

1.) Parents, school administrators, teachers, and guidance

counselors must encourage the students to use SNS since it

promotes good interpersonal relationships.

2.) Students must properly use social networking sites and not

just for fun and entertainment but for communication with their

family, friends and teachers.

3.) Social networking site developers and companies must

improve the security and privacy that they are giving to its users


24/26

to promote a safe environment especially for children and

teenagers.

4.) Students must also encourage their classmates to use SNS

frequently since it promotes good communication with their

teachers regarding school works and related activities.

5.) Students must also encourage their friends to use SNS

since it promotes good relationship making friendship ties grow

stronger.


25/26

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008. Social networking the safe way. Bato balani for science &

technology, 28, 4-5.

Boyd, D. and N. Ellison. Social networking sites: definition, history, and

scholarship.http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html,

September 1, 2009.

Boyd, D. and N. Ellison. Social networking sites: definition, history, and

scholarship.http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html,

September 1, 2009.

Dwyer, C. Digital relationship in the myspace generation: results

from a quantitative

study.http://w w w .cdw [email protected], September 12, 2009.

Harris, K. 2008. The internet and social

relationships.http://www.donah.org/

archieve3s.htm, September 12, 2009.

Harris, K. 2008. Using social networking sites as student engagement

tools.

http://donah.org/snstudents.htm, September 9, 2009.


26/26

Lenhart, A. Social networking websites and

teens.http://www.peinternet.org?pDF?n?

198?report_display.asp, September 12, 2009.

Nauert, R. Social network may foster

jealousy.http://psychcentral.com/news/

2009/08/07/social-network-may-foster-jealousy/7616.html, September

26, 2009.

Santos, M. 2009. Everyones connected.C rossroads, 5, 4-5.

Date post:	07-Apr-2018
Category:	Documents
Upload:	piidyei-pawaan
View:	221 times
Download:	0 times

Ruth English Research

Documents