- Title
- Influence of social media on antisocial behaviour amongst teenagers at high school in South Africa
- Creator
- Maideyi, Roseline
- Subject
- Internet and teenagers
- Subject
- Teenagers
- Date
- 2016-01
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25519
- Identifier
- vital:64330
- Description
- Social media is a valuable tool that has made communication easy and effective however, it can be dangerous to teenagers if misused. The online sphere has become a platform for teenagers to connect with peers in different locales, thus increasing their exposure to large volumes of information including that which their parents, guardians and school authorities would debar them. Founded on the uses and gratifications theory and social cognitive theory, the study investigates the influence of social media on antisocial behaviour among teenagers. Uses and gratification theory was used in this study to understand how teenagers use social media whereas the social cognitive theory brought an in depth understanding as to how teenagers learn antisocial behaviour from inappropriate social media content. The social cognitive theory argues that children can acquire new behaviour through observation and learning from the environment as well as the media. The study was conducted using the mixed method design which focused on triangulation. Triangulation enables the researcher to combine theories, data sources and methods in a single study; this makes the information obtained in such a study to be verified, thus increasing validity of the study. A case study strategy of Jabavu High school learners as well as teachers was used in the study. Data was collected from Jabavu high school learners and their respective teachers to obtain information from various perspectives. Simple random sampling was used to select 150 grade 11 and 12 learners who participated in the study. Semi structured interviews were used to collect data from Jabavu high school teachers while questionnaires were used to collect data from learners at Jabavu high school located in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The study found that Jabavu High school learners attribute social media to antisocial behaviour. Thus, the study concluded that social media influences teenagers to participate in various forms of antisocial behaviour through observing, learning and imitating what they are exposed to on social media. Since teenagers attributed social media to antisocial behaviour such as pornography, violence and vulgar language they stand a chance of behaving antisocially according to the antisocial media content they are exposed to.
- Description
- Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (154 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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| View Details | SOURCE1 | R. Maideyi MSocSc Communication Dissertation January 2016.pdf | 1 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details |