...thank my most beloved family who understand the need to finish this research, just always remember that you are always loved. And lastly to my unseen co-author who always guides me and never leaves my side. In completing this project, the project provided us with an opportunity to understand the fundamentals of research methods in a better manner and apply them in everyday life. The insistence on taking up a socially relevant topic like the use of Facebook helped me to understand if the said topic really affects the academic performance of the students. Introduction Overview Social networking websites are currently being used regularly my millions of people. The use of social networking sites has been widespread that they have not only caught the attention of academic and industry researchers worldwide but also me, in particular. Social networking sites are now being investigated by numerous social science researchers and an increasing number of academic commentators are becoming more and more interested in studying Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking services, because of their probable impact on society. While the social networking sites have the same key aspects, the cultures and responses around them that become apparent are varied. Most sites help strangers connect with others based on shared personal interests, political and economic views, or simply recreational activities. Some sites accommodate distinct viewers, while others attract people based...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Social media had been a massive part in every household. Technology had given us a great deal and helped us with our tasks and made everything easy. We know that social media sites like (Google+, Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo) had introduced us in many methods that can connect people easier. Social media sites had been a popular means to connect with other people over the Internet. During the 1980's home computers were becoming more common in every household and social media sites were becoming more refined. According to Hendricks, (2013) The Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and were popularized into the '90s. The first popular social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. The site enabled its users to upload a profile and make friends with the other users. By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. These sites still remain as the most popular social network on the Internet. After the success of these social media sites, other sites like Tumbler, Spotify, Foursquare and Pinterest began appearing to fill specific social network niches. Furthermore, Hendricks (2013) emphasized that, "there are a tremendous variety of social networking sites, and many of them can be linked to allow cross posting. This creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of people without sacrificing the intimacy of person-to-person communication. We can only speculate...
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... October 04, 2010 Aryn Karpinski, a researcher from Ohio State University says that students who use Facebook are underachieving in exams. Instead of spending time doing the assignments and work, students would rather to sit, face on the screen and checking updates on Facebook. Study shows students who spend more time on Facebook spend less time in studying. User students spend time for five hours studying while students who are non-users studied eleven to fifteen hours per week which has significant that Facebook users have an averaged of low grades rather than those non-users. Karpinski added that there may be other factors that can affects the study habit of students such as personality traits that link Facebook use and lower grades and some students would still find other ways to avoid studying that still get lower grades. Sharon Gaudin from ComputerWorld Company says that college students have always had study distraction from video games to parties and other entertainments. But Facebook really takes distractions in the study. Bored students can spend hours updating accounts, check new updates, looking at pictures and playing games or any applications on the site. And because of modernization, mobile phones and mini laptop with wifi source which presence of Facebook can go anywhere. As Paul Kirshner author of the daily mail quoted that most students who have Facebook account affects not only the study habits but also the task at home. Students tend to be a multitasking...
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...acquired in your academic career to date. You will find, I believe, that having strong writing skills will be an invaluable asset to your future academic and professional careers. In the coming weeks you will complete various writing assignments, taking each of them through the stages of drafting, revising, and editing before handing them in for a grade. I will give you all assignments in writing posted to Blackboard; also I will post all reading material on Blackboard or we’ll retrieve materials through online sources; thus there are no texts to buy for this course. Requirements You will complete approximately four graded assignments over the course of this semester – comprised of the following: 1. Politics, government policy, and/or social and cultural issues. Some of you may be interested and engaged in these matters already – such matters as economic theory and policy, immigration, gun rights vs. sensible gun regulation, health care policy, veteran affairs and funding, equal pay for women, women’s access to abortion and contraception, the right wing’s current attempt to defund Planned Parenthood; the Tea Party vs. . . . ALL government at large; race issues (the Black Lives Matter movement and all that it entails, especially policing in minority communities and minority profiling); voter rights vs. draconian voter ID laws and eliminating early voting; drug policies; foreign policy (involvement/intervention vs. isolationism; military involvement vs. diplomatic/economic...
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...rock on which all the managent activities of an organisation or a business rests upon but that does not make it the base of all business activity (Torrington, Hall and Taylor, 2005, p. 1). Personnel mnagement on the other hand was more of an administrative or book keeping function making sure that there were adequate workers to carry out the desired jobs and keeping a check on the relationship between employer and the employee. It is also to be noted that Human resource Management did not evolve on one fine day, it was a long journey starting from absorption and synthesis of various working environments and a combination of pre and modern management principles and theories along with academic researches (Price, 2011). Human resource management has two realms of existence, one being the academic utterance and functions such as in conferences, books, business school subjects and so on whereas the other being the major associated with business practices associated with organizations right from the employment to there...
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...create, and evaluate information to develop critical thinking skills. With social networks and teenagers, this is important as the most impactful part of social networks. When collecting information, people can learn to blend it into ideas and present it. Information literacy alone encourages critical thinking, and skepticism. Moreover, social networks like Facebook increases communication. Facebook offers a great program for teachers to build study groups. Professors/teachers can also utilize Facebook to set up projects or lesson plans. With Facebook students can collaborate easily on assignments and the teacher is more accessible. Another advantage is that the students who are shy can direct message the teacher to for questions. With professors/teachers on Facebook helps students appear more approachable to one another. In this scenario, social networks & teenagers can be a very beneficial combination. As with alcohol or coffee, some people are able to handle social networks that is sweeping society. However, more and more people are becoming addicted to social networks. Some people spend hours on social sites like Facebook and Twitter...
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...and Commerce Vol. 2 No. 1 January 2013 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Academic Performance of Students in College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa, Oman. Saba Mehmood Faculty, Department of Communication Studies, Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Ministry of Higher Education, P.O.Box: 699 --Nizwa PC: 611, Sultanate of Oman. Tarang Taswir Faculty, Depsartment of Communication Studies, Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Ministry of Higher Education, P.O.Box: 699 --Nizwa PC: 611, Sultanate of Oman. Abstract The research investigates pedagogical impacts of social networking sites on undergraduate students at the College of Applied Sciences (CAS), Nizwa, Oman. Blogs, wikis, tweets, RSS feeds, discussion boards, podcasts are educational nodes in a huge network. The study tabulates the usage of these web2.0 applications and their impact on linguistic and social behaviors of young learners. The demographic segmentation constructs a framework to evaluate social tools and e-learning technologies popular amongst learners. The results of empirical evidence explore classroom and social software as paradigms that build young knowledgeable societies. It studies variables that examine the effectiveness of these social tools in knowledge sharing and general awareness of student communities. Keywords: Social networking, E-learning, Communication, Academic performance, Oman. 1. Introduction: The Oman government's decision to increase Information and Communication...
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...Frequency of Tardiness and Academic Performance On Grade Nine Students In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements In Science, Math and English IV Submitted by: Dagala, Aaron Christian C. Elizaga, Maria Isabel A. Ibag, Bernadine E. Roslinda, Karl Angelo J. Soriano, Czashka Rheyshyl Submitted to: Mr. Rogelio D. Rasay III MAT-MATH Ms. Hasmin M. Macatabang MA-Ed Mr. Arcel Joseph C. Amoguis CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION “Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.” -Niccolo Machiavelli A significant number of school-age children have television sets in their bedrooms, and a great many probably are watching a late movie or one of the late-night talk shows when they should be sleeping. When and if they have an alarm clock, they just continue to sleep after it goes off. This was according to Murray Light who was asked to make an article regarding the growing concern of tardiness. Enamiroro Oghuvbu conducted a study in Nigeria to determine the causes of absenteeism and tardiness. He cites that the distance to school, school discipline, family background and school location are some of the common causes of for the tardiness of secondary students. Tardiness is a growing problem according to both of them. One’s tardiness, most especially a student’s, might result to low academic performance for he or she has missed a part of a discussion, making him or her unable to grasp the concept of the lesson. Stacy Zeiger, an eHow contributor...
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...THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ON FEMALES OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN UGANDA A CASE STUDY OF MAIN CAMPUS, MBALE BY ANGAIKA SYMPATHY 113-023051-09596 A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A BACHELORS DEGREE IN MASS COMMUNICATION OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN UGANDA JULY 2016 GLOSSARY Acquaintances - A person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend. Cognitive - Based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge. Collaboration - To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor. Consensual – Existing or made by mutual consent without an act of writing. Correlate – Either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other. Cramming - To prepare hastily for an examination. Cravings - An intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing. Demography - The statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics. Exclusion - The act or an instance of excluding. Flourish - To be in a state of activity or production. G.P.A. - Grade Point Average Gregarious - Tending to associate with others of one's kind. Immersion - The act of immersing or the state of being immersed. Inconclusive - Leading to no conclusion or definite result. Innocuous...
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...GPA vs. Music OIS 2340 Section 1 Aubrey Bullough Alyssa Boyd Helena Paulos Moraya Dodson Sam Webster Executive Summary We are a radio station and we were interested in finding a new target group for our upcoming sister station and who better than to target the large student population? Our goal was to find out if listening to classical music while studying is beneficial to students’ GPA’s. We assumed that students who listened to classical music while studying have higher GPAs (3.1 or above) in comparison to students who listen to other genres while studying. A sample of 61 college students was taken and of those 16 reported that they listen to classical music while studying and obtain a GPA of 3.1 or above. We used proportional hypothesis testing to keep our data simple and precise. Our hypothesis was that 50% of students with GPAs 3.1 or above listened to classical music while studying. After extensive research and advanced calculations we have decided to reject this hypothesis. To gather our data we created a digital survey on Survey Monkey and had each member of our group post the survey link as their Facebook status. To our advantage, Facebook worked extremely quickly. Our questions in our survey consisted of: (a) “Do you listen to music while you study?” (b) “What genre do preferred to listen to while they study?” And (c) “What is your current GPA?” We received roughly 100 responses and of those 100, 61 students earned a GPA of 3.1 or above and listen to...
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...environment which is competitive and filled with changes. In order to improve the performance and success in this environment, organizations would need effective strategic leadership. It has also found that in the last few years, there have been explicit contributions from researches which help the managers to adapt today’s business environment by understanding and implementing the strategic leadership (Mary et al, 2008). This paper will discuss strategic leadership by introducing the definition of the strategic leadership as a start. The paper will then analyse what does the strategic leadership mean to the organizations and explain why organizations need strategic leadership in three angles: the change of business environment; the inadequacy of traditional management role for organizations; the importance of strategic leadership in terms of organizations’ strategy implementation. Furthermore, this paper will discuss three implications that the strategic leadership could bring to organizations from the perspectives of: stakeholder, business culture and globalization, respectively. The paper will also give examples for each implication to illustrate why organizations would be benefit from good strategic leadership from all the three perspectives. What is the strategic leadership? The strategic leadership, as defined by Ireland & Hitt (2005, p. 63) which has been popularly used in many academic papers, is “a person's ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, think...
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...overview of my group experiences in the Harvard Everest simulation .Everest simulation is group work of students to use their own background knowledge of management attending to reach the summit of the Mountain Everest. It is required to complete by a group of students and students play one of five different roles on a team of hiker. Each member of the team has their unique goals to complete and there is also a common goal of reaching the Everest summit. During the simulated six-day climb, team members should analyze information on weather, health conditions, supplies, goals and hiking speed, and then determine how much of that information need to communicate with their teammates. Every decision that each member made will influence the team performance eventually. The aim for this simulation is to explore influences on collective decision-making, including opposing interests and cognitive biases, analyze different leadership approaches and team responses. Our group members include Raymond Duong, Anthony Le, James Peter Reid, Jialing Guo, Siqi Liu, Kazuya Ogino and Biljana Popovic. Our team score is 57% at the first time and only 28% at the second time. The quite low score our group earned may because the more risky decisions we made compare with the first attempt and lack of the knowledge of management. This report will summary the simulation experience and analysis the result of our group in the simulation by focusing on decision-making and the theory of attribution. ...
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...The International UNO Summer School 2012 Red Bull: Case Analysis Daniel Mader Andreas Mair Jennie Walker Ellie Walker Macon Blount Marketing Principles Jeffrey R. Foreman, PhD MKT 3501.1 Table of Contents Company Overview 3 Corporate, Business, and Marketing Strategy 5 Market Orientation 6 Marketing Macro Environment 7 Consumer Behavior and Psychology 8 Porter’s Five Forces 12 Pricing Strategies 14 Integrated Marketing Communications 17 Social Media Press Release 19 Future Problems for Red Bull 20 Company Overview I. Mission Statement and Slogan A. Mission Statement * No official mission statement could be obtained, since Red Bull is not a publically traded company. B. Slogan * “Red Bull gives you wiiings.” / “Red Bull verleiht Flüüügel.” * This slogan was popularized via TV commercials in German-speaking countries in the 1990s; the slogan was later translated into English as Red Bull became more internationalized. * Controversy arose over the rights to use the English slogan in the early 2000s when a patent attorney from Sarajevo claimed that he had patented the slogan for his own purposes back in 1997 in Romania. The slogan is still in use today by Red Bull. II. Core Competencies * Needless to say, the brand has developed an image for power, speed, and recklessness, and dominates the energy drink market all across the globe. * As can be seen in Pricing...
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...Subway is the world’s biggest sandwich chain. It overtook McDonald’s as America’s biggest fast-food restaurant by number of outlets in 2002, and achieved the same feat on a global scale in 2010. 1. Marketing Advertising Campaign * Subway targets more of the younger generation aiming at nutrition consciousness, these would include ‘empty nest 1 and 2’ (singles and newly married people) and ‘full nest 1 and full nest 2’ (family with young children and that with grownups still living with parents). * Subway also focuses on hard sell approach in terms of the functional benefits and attributes of the menu being offered while the soft sell approach is inclined towards the nutritional value gained and often gets to be criticized for the hefty amounts spent for ad campaigns and promotions. * Jared Fogle “The Subway Guy”, first came to media attention in 1999 when Men’s Health magazine did a story on how he became obese by eating junk food and not exercising and then proceeded to lose 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches. Fogle is now the face of Subway marketing. He tours around different schools and promotes healthy eating to children. * Mark Blackwell is Subway restaurants weight loss hero in Australia. Blackwell was inspired by Jared Fogle to develop a diet of his own design that included Subway sandwiches. * In the year 2002, the outlets’ low fat sandwiches were promoted showing Mark Blackwell having lost 42 kilograms after a year of Subway...
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...Definition, History, and Scholarship danah m. boyd School of Information University of California-Berkeley Nicole B. Ellison Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Abstract Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research. Introduction Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices. While their key technological features are fairly consistent, the cultures that emerge around SNSs are varied. Most sites support the maintenance of pre-existing...
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