Influence of Social Media on Children Morality in Uganda, A Case of Kampala Central Division
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2015-04
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Kampala International University, Colleges of humanities and social sciences
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The purposes of the study were to evaluate the effect of social media on children between seven to seventeen years in Kampala central division. The study was based on three research objectives which included establishing the contributions of social media to the social development of children between 7-17 years, examining the morale challenges that can be brought by social media in children development in Kampala city division and propose measures that can be adopted in improving the social media prevalence amidst children of 7-17 years in Kampala central division. The researcher employed a descriptive research design involving the use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study chose a population of 57 people chosen from Kampala central division. [‘he contributions of social media to the social economic wellbeing of children in Kampala central division. The responses were about 80% agreed that social media improves improved children understanding, improved political mobilization had 78% of the responses followed by improved provision on health education, providing a friendly environment and improved Problem solving among conflicting parties with 60% each, improved self-esteem had 58% and 46% were for improving communication at lower costs Challenges associated with the challenges that can be brought by social media in children development in Kampala city division of the respondents who strongly agreed and agreed, from the findings, it is evident that limited concentration on education had the highest level of responses with 88%, limited reasoning capacities with 78%, others were immorality and indiscipline, high degree of cultural deterioration, high degree of hacking and illegal activity hinder operations, complexities in comprehension and the measures that can be adopted in improving the social media prevalence amidst children of 7-17 years in Kampala central division included training business bodies on the use of social media, Integrating social media with other media, enhancing provision of social media role, sensitization of masses on the availability of marketing opportunities, there is need for improved consideration of ICT developments, organizations need to adopt face book for business purposes and there is need to improve access to ICT tools. The researcher recommends for the adoption of the following recommendations. The extraction of social networks crucially depends on the successful recognition of person names. The use of social media has made it possible for professionals around the globe to get advice from their colleagues and share experiences with a mouse click, the adoption of monitoring mechanisms for the social media systems. The emerging network environment does preclude the loss of control but does require executives to rethink the means by which risk is managed. Information exchange costs, necessary for coordination, have dropped to near zero with the Internet. The researcher recommends that there is need to adopt the measures of improving the adoption of social media as raised in the sub-chapter 4.4 of chapter four
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A Research Dissertation Submitted to The College of Humanities and Social Science as A Partial Requirement for The Award of Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication of Kampala International University
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Social Media, Children Morality, Uganda