Influence of social media on antisocial behaviour amongst teenagers at high school in South Africa
- Authors: Maideyi, Roseline
- Date: 2016-01
- Subjects: Internet and teenagers , Teenagers
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25519 , 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. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016
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- Date Issued: 2016-01
- Authors: Maideyi, Roseline
- Date: 2016-01
- Subjects: Internet and teenagers , Teenagers
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25519 , 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. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016
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- Date Issued: 2016-01
The impact of aid dependence on social development: the case of Zimbabwe
- Authors: Nyatoro, Tinashe
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Economic assistance , Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26649 , vital:65735
- Description: The purpose of this study was to look at how a foreign aid dependent economy is vulnerable to external manipulations. This study came up with the conclusion that foreign capital dependence is detrimental to long-term social, economic, and sustainable development of developing countries. The study also noted how foreign aid is used as a foreign policy instrument by western countries to influence the behaviour of the developing countries. The study noted that Zimbabwe is an aid dependent country hence its vulnerability to external manipulation. This has been demonstrated by capital flight from Zimbabwe since 1997. Multilateral Financial Institutions, the European Union, United States of America and other bilateral donors withdrew their financial support to the country due to policy disagreements with the Zimbabwean government. This incidence of donors withdrawing their financial support to Zimbabwe raises fundamental questions as to whether the African state is autonomous or is it possible for the African state to delink itself from the current global international market and at what costs? What has come out very clearly from this study is that a dependent state has no autonomy to decide on its domestic and foreign policies without considering the interests of its donors, and hence its vulnerability to external manipulations. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2008
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Nyatoro, Tinashe
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Economic assistance , Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26649 , vital:65735
- Description: The purpose of this study was to look at how a foreign aid dependent economy is vulnerable to external manipulations. This study came up with the conclusion that foreign capital dependence is detrimental to long-term social, economic, and sustainable development of developing countries. The study also noted how foreign aid is used as a foreign policy instrument by western countries to influence the behaviour of the developing countries. The study noted that Zimbabwe is an aid dependent country hence its vulnerability to external manipulation. This has been demonstrated by capital flight from Zimbabwe since 1997. Multilateral Financial Institutions, the European Union, United States of America and other bilateral donors withdrew their financial support to the country due to policy disagreements with the Zimbabwean government. This incidence of donors withdrawing their financial support to Zimbabwe raises fundamental questions as to whether the African state is autonomous or is it possible for the African state to delink itself from the current global international market and at what costs? What has come out very clearly from this study is that a dependent state has no autonomy to decide on its domestic and foreign policies without considering the interests of its donors, and hence its vulnerability to external manipulations. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2008
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- Date Issued: 2008
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