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A Research Presented to the faculty of
The SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of
Computer Research Network Inc.
(CRNI) Trento Agusan del Sur
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In Partial fulfilment of
the Requirements in
Practical Research I
By:
Abalayan, Epiver E.
Aguilar, Kaye E.
Albar, Hanzel L.
Ayala, Leonil Niño P.
Brina, Queenie L.
Cerbo, Mary Rose D.
Fabay, Jane G.
Peñaranda, Honey Faith V.
Table of contents
Chapter I
Rationale---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1
Research Question---------------------------------------------------------------------------------2
Theoretical lens-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
Definition of terms---------------------------------------------------------------------------------4
Chapter II
Chapter III
Methodology--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16
Research Design----------------------------------------------------------------------------------16
Research participants---------------------------------------------------------------------------17
Data collection------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18
Data analysis---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19
Trustworthiness-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Ethical Consideration----------------------------------------------------------------------------2
Chapter I
Introduction
Rationale
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers (J.K Rowling).
The technology is one of the factors of why the world is advancing, many jobs are put in
ease and if you want to find answers in an instant the internet you can acquire that
certain information with one click, with new gadgets invented every year and many
forms of technology arises we can’t avoid the fact that teenagers lives are affected by
Take Internet for example the internet has been has been a popular technology
in the teenagers and with new high-tech gadgets and smart phones that most teenagers
are intrigued by these stuffs they are most likely very late to sleep at night busy posting
in social medias instead of doing their homework, playing games online, and especially
most teenagers cannot live without using their the internet even just a day. By these
teenagers today fritter on playing games, surfing online, drowning in their posts, and
social media stuffs but what they are forgetting is to exercise their body that they should
also join interactive recreational activities, go outside play sports and enjoy the fresh air.
But despite from all of internet is the reason why the world is now connect wirelessly
we are able to connect to other people who are far away. But also the
technology such as the internet has been beneficiary for the teenagers and with the
new technology teenagers won’t be having a hard time doing their projects in school.
But the real point is among these situations does advanced technology was really a
The purpose of this research is to determine the lives of teenagers under the
modern era of how teenager’s lives revolve around the advanced technology. We are
concern about the lives of many teenagers that are bound in the technology so we
conducted this research in order to investigate how they do in their schooling and
lifestyle. We also aim to figure out if the technology such as the internet is the cause of
the many negative effects of the lives of the teenagers and how internet helped the lives
of teenagers, we will figure out if the internet is a boon or a bane of the lives of the
Research Question
These questions highlight the issues of the research that we are conducting:
Theoretical Lens
This study is connected on the theory of Internet Theory (Huber, 1995). The
theory is useful for our research since explained the factors of the internet and how the
internet works which is helpful for our study since it tackles the internet and how the
internet affects the lives of teenagers. It aims to capture the reason why teenagers are
addicted to the internet investigating how they are addicted to it and capture the
Net and its support from the environment. The environment "holds" the system and
provides the relevant resources and supports to maintain the systems functions. All
communication takes place in the system and the only thing which can take place in the
system is communication and nothing else. But not just the communication brought
internet to the world it is also the path to finding information with ease, internet also
brought many negative effects to the world such as the most popular one is
cybercrimes. Moreover the question is still unanswered in the Internet Theory (Huber,
1995) though the theory itself did not discuss anything about the teenagers we are able
We are confident that this study would explain how internet affects the lives of
teenagers in the modern society if it is a boon or a bane. From this study we are able to
attain information about the teenagers living in the modern era affecting their lives as
well as their problems that they are facing in their lives including lifestyle and how they
connect with others people. We are assured that this study will expand and include the
ideas about the saying of J.K. Rowlings (2012) and the Internet Theory (Huber, 1995) as
the vision of our study about the internet affecting the lives of teenagers if it is a boon
or a bane.
Definition of Terms
The following terms are used in this study we researched and facts with a
common reference.
Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking
technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services,
such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web
The focus on this study is to distinguish the lives of teenagers affected by the
internet and the case is that the internet has been both positive and negative to the
teenagers but there will be only one reason and one outcome and it should be a boon or
a bane. The study was able to acquire information on the teenager’s experiences from
As said by (Rowling, 2012) that the internet is a boon and a bane to the
teenagers and the factors are that the internet gave ease to educate their selves and
improve their self-esteem by connecting with others socially and boost up their
confidence but it also shows that internet gave teenagers prone to many negative doing
such as crime acts such hacking. There should be many teenagers that must be studied
There were some difficulties with this research since it is a qualitative research
and it has limited number of sample size. We also deal with difficulties of choosing the
right answer for we fear to have selected bias choice. (Koks, 2015)
every chapter. The difference of concepts from every chapter is that it is presented with
Chapter 1. It introduced the case being studied. The important of the study emphasized
on this study. It will be followed and discussed the purpose of this study that aims to
distinguish the lives of teenagers living in the modern technology affected by the
internet. Next is the presentation of the theoretical lens that links to the research study.
Then we acknowledge the significance of the study and the people who are benefited by
the information. Important words are also defined clearly to have better understanding
of the text. Last is the delimitation and limitation of the study presented including the
Chapter 2.It includes the review of the literature and other related studies about the
internet. The focus of the review is the following instance in the lives of teenagers
influenced by the internet. It includes the Theory of the internet which is the Internet
Theory.
Chapter 3.This explains the design and methodology employed in this study.
Chapter II
This chapter presents the related literature and studies after the thorough and
in-depth search done by the researchers. This will also present the synthesis of the art,
theoretical and conceptual framework to fully understand the research to be done and
Related Literature
Net and its support from the environment. The environment "holds" the system and
provides the relevant resources and supports to maintain the systems functions.
For instance, the supply of current, the computer hardware, the material cables of the
telephone networks, the buildings in which the terminals are housed and of course the
user is strictly part of the environment of the Internet. They are no components of the
system itself. All communication systems are operationally closed systems. That simply
means that no system can function outside the system. All communication takes place
in the system and the only thing which can take place in the system is communication
and nothing else. Therefore the Internet can be described as an autopoietic system
which produces the components out of which it exists out of the components of which it
consists. The components are single communication units and they produce further
the system selective interactions take place. Certain links between certain components
are used more often than others. Through that process, which is a temporary, time-
The principal problem one must face is the unobservability of the processes going on in
the Net. The only way to observe interactions with a certain home page or server is the
amount of electronic mail, the count of log-ins into a certain page or the number of
selective perspective which depends on where we are located, when we look into the
Net and how, about the actual structure of the Internet as accessible to a certain
observer at a certain moment. But we can talk about its organization as opposed to its
structure. Humberto M. Maturana and Francisco Varela have tried to define the
the actual relations between the components which integrate the systems as such.
Therefore the organisation of a system like the Internet can remain invariant while it
maintains its identity without disintegration. Structures can vary provided they satisfy
The theory is related to the advance technology and the internet as well is the main
claim of the theory is discussed and we are able to understand how the internet works.
Related Studies
Young, B. (2006), “A Study On The Effect Of Internet Use And Social Capital On
The Academic Performance”. This study examined the condition of Internet use and
survey data of 361 high school students. The study findings suggest that the Internet
expands its reach to teenagers’ school life. First, students are more reliant on the
Second, teenagers tend to manage their social capital through the Internet. Third, the
result of regression analysis indicates that Internet use time irrespective of purposes is
less likely to influence academic performance, while in-degree centrality and ego-
network efficiency are more likely to exert positive influence on academic performance.
The Internet exerts increasingly more influence on our everyday life. Internet-based
activities expand their reach beyond the economic and social fields. A growing number
of Internet users spend their leisure time in the cyber community. Recent studies
indicate that age is more important than schooling or income in determining Internet
use (The Korea Economic Daily, 2004). Consequently, it is not surprising that 94.8% of
teenagers use the Internet (Ministry of Information and Communication, 2005). This
propensity suggests that teenagers may consider the cyber space as a real rather than
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virtual space. The Internet has a Janus face. On the one hand, it gives every facility for
alienated. On the other hand, anonymity in the cyber space makes people insensible to
abuse on the Internet. It brings about all sort of antisocial actions, infringement of
intellectual property right, and leakage of private information. Despite the two-edged
effect, it is clear that we cannot live without the Internet. Especially unlike the previous
generation not exposed to the cyber culture before socialization, the influence of the
cyber culture on the teenagers’ socialization is rapidly growing. In this sense, the social
activity of teenagers in the cyber community is a barometer indicating the future image
technology has caused significant changes in the social network pattern. There are two
spend more time on the Internet, it necessarily reduces available time for people to
interact with others. As a result, Internet use results in decreasing intensity of social
interaction in the off-line world. The other is that, as the Internet expands opportunities
for people to interact with others, it contributes to increases in not only intensity but
also the scope of social interaction (Howard et al., 2001; Nie, 2001; Orleans and Laney,
2000; Pruijt, 2002 Wellman et al., 2001). Orlean and Laney (2000: 57) identified these
opposite perspectives with the zero-sum and non zero-sum game perspective. The
former assumes that the use of media and technology is more likely to reduce the
opportunity for users to engage in existing personal relations, while the latter assumes
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that the media and technology are more likely to expand the opportunity to engage in
personal relations by increasing the demand of social interaction. From this perspective,
activities in the virtual and real space are not contradictory but complementary in
producing and strengthening social capital. Internet use is assumed to make up for a
weak point of social capital embedded in the real space by increasing communication. A
complicated network emerges from Internet interaction. This network has attributes
exactly coincides with the characteristics of social capital. Some other studies focused
on how individual propensity and attitude toward social interaction affect Internet use.
Nie (2001) argued that the frequency of Internet use was positively related to sociality.
According to this study, those who joined in social activities more actively had stronger
inclination to use the Internet, and subsequently the frequency of Internet use had
negative relations with the frequency of communication and social contact with others.
Several researchers also expressed their anxiety about the negative effect of Internet
use (Nie and Erbring, 2000; Shenk, 1997). They suggested that social interaction in cyber
space costed no less than off-line interactions. Online interaction necessarily imposes
burden on social actor’s everyday life. Blanchard and Horan (1998) reported that only
frequency of face-to- face interactions. According to this study, the regionally based
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Internet activity is more likely to increase off-line interactions than spatially dispersed
Internet activities. Internet use pattern and degree are closely related to the peer group.
Teenagers consider a friend network and peer group culture embedded in the network
as a significant others for them. Consequently, their network exerts a great influence on
internet use. Also, family is no less important than friends in personal relations. Yang
(2003) examined how Internet use affected the degree of satisfaction in personal
relations and social activities. The result reports that Internet use time was positively
related to contact time with friends, but negatively associated with frequency of
conversation with parents. In other words, Internet use contributes to increases in social
capital with friends, but impedes to keep good relations with family. It is not easy to
obstruction. Such question would be not only difficult to answer but also fruitless. We
should rather investigate the context and the medium through which on-line social
relations are formed. As teenagers are more reliant on the Internet for various activities
in everyday life, Internet use sways the quality of individual life by transforming off-line
social interactions. In this sense, Internet use is closely related with interpersonal trust
Internet addiction (Na, 2004; Kim, 2004; Kim, 2002; Lim et al., 2004; Son, 2003). These
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However, their efforts had some limitations in that they considered individual social-
psycho attributes as a cause and an effect simultaneously. Also, their focus on the
negative aspect of Internet use hampered to develop further discussion. The implication
drawn from these studies is that we can launch an effective policy for Internet addiction
university education is an initiative of relatively new provenance and one that has been
struggling to secure rights and recognition, similar to how a new country struggles to
routine part of students' daily activities within clinical activities and basic sciences. The
most important element that supports the use of technology in the educational system
is the Internet. E-learning has become one of the fastest-moving trends in education
and poses a promising alternative to traditional learning. Studies have shown that
people learn considerably better from a combination of both words and images (which
technology enables) than merely from words alone.4 Technology helps students
The changing role of physicians in the new health care environment provides a stronger
impetus than ever before for these ideas to be incorporated. Nevertheless, using
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universities. Abouchedid and Eid stated that “The overwhelming traditional knowledge
delivery system for higher education in the Arab world demonstrates the pronounced
information (IT) gap between Arab countries and the developed world”.
Research has indicated a need to change and revise the curriculum within health
highly important source of maintaining currency and gaining knowledge within the
health profession. Research has demonstrated that smartphone applications and the
educational processes. This responsiveness is facilitated by the ease with which content
content and development of skills in such areas as analytical reasoning, problem solving,
information evaluation, and creative thinking. In KSA, there is a dire dearth and paucity
of information regarding the effect of technology usage on learning achievement.
Rather, studies conducted within KSA have found that students are used to a
would shift education from the classical approach (which has not prioritized students'
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students seek a true understanding of the central principles, themes, and applications of
any given area of study. Using technology would support the active learning of students
outcomes.
Chapter III
Methodology
This chapter presents the research method used, the respondents, the
Research Design
useful and necessary complement that allows the researcher to fully understand the
needs, motivations, judgments, perceptions, and intentions that customers bring to the
table. By following the guidelines described here, marketing researchers can ensure that
they maximize the upside potential of their research project while minimizing the
relationships and then making adequate and accurate and interpretations about such
data with the aid of statistical method. It needs smaller but focused samples in which
data are categorized into patterns that are used as primary basis for organizing and
reporting results.
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Role of Researcher
investigate and analyze the lives of the teenagers under the modern technology. In fact
as teenagers ourselves and the researcher of this topic we are focused and determined
We have figured out that teenagers are very much familiar to the internet
especially to the modern society that we are living in, that is why we are using the
explorative research in order to find the answer if the internet is really a good thing for
the teenagers or it’s just another inventions just to harm us. In behalf of the team of
researchers since we are teenagers ourselves are motivated to seek the answer that we
are going to find the exact and precise answer for the question that many of us has
the teenagers, teenagers that are addicted or have not used internet or teenagers that
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Data Collection
methods. These are the following: identifying the resources; identifying the participants;
answers. In identifying the resource, we will list down the status of teenagers that are
addicted to the technology same for the teenagers that are not particular to such
technology. To figure our how they’ll react to the internet as we will interview them.
particular to the technology together with teenagers that are not really particular of it
and we will investigate how they’re answers if they can really say if the internet is a
boon or a bane.
using the questionnaires that we will be readying for the conducting the interview for
the teenagers. Proofreading and analyzing of the respondents answers will be taken
with much caution and make sure to make it accurate especially in the language of what
the respondents are using we will take considerations and analyzing their answers
Approving the participants answers will be the approving of the answers of the
teenagers of how they reacted to the questions that are given to them, we will further
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investigate their answers to approve their answers if the modern technology is a really
Data Analysis
The answers of the respondents will be analyzed by the researchers using their
experiences since we are teenagers ourselves we will distinguish of how their answers
of the teenagers that are very particular to such technology and to the teenagers that
are not very particular of it. We will also further examine their answers by verifying their
answers to make sure it is accurate and precise for our qualitative research.
It is essential to review and revisit the data that we have acquired in order to
track their experiences of how they’re answers towards the question that we have
prepared for them and so we can conclude their answers in one thesis statement. We
will perform investigations of ourselves in their answers and dig deeper to inquire more
significant information that we can gather and to further more analyze the participants
answers.
Trustworthiness
because the qualitative research reliability and validity are not specifically addressed in
the same way as the quantitative research does. However is has a distinct evaluation of
the qualitative research is wide and more expressed than quantitative research, we
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have conducted the research with reliable resources and deeply search by liable sources
in the internet.
The credibility of our research is liable for the information that we have inquired
and acquired are websites that are accurately observed and is written by professional
journalist, authors, and researchers. To check the credibility of our findings and
interpretations, the respondents are in a liberty to read and examine the narrative for
their approval for us to check that findings and interpretations are correct.
Another aspect that we should consider is that the research should produce a
researched had a vision of things and understanding towards their study. To keep the
audibility of our study we will use voice recorders, voice mails, and note-taking so that
we can achieve a successful confirmability for our research study that we are
conducting.
Dependability is also an aspect that our research that we ensured will apply for
we have kelp all records and phrases of our research process were kept and easily
accessed and can be read with eased and understanding. When we said all records we
mean to keep all records of the note-taking, voice recording, and voice mailing.
And lastly we have transferability in our research which refers to the extent of
results and findings of our study applied and gained in the contexts or to the
participants. If we are going to conduct our research in a far place then we will be
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active, forceful, and powerful towards our research and study thoroughly in order to
Ethical Consideration
protection as a respondent that give their trust to us. We are also responsible to keep
the information by the hand of the researcher, because many teenagers give the
Considering my participants being one who experience the good and bad effects of the
modern technology we are give them an authority by using their dialect to express their
feelings and give their different experiences to it. We follow the ethical standards that
pointed by (Boyatzis, 1998; Mack et al, 2005), the following are: respect for persons,
We need to respect and accommodate the respondent ability for not them to
feel bad and discourage you as researcher, we don’t look down the respondent
knowledge or something that make them to confuse. Before hand, we will need to get
the respondents consent, to be part of the study. We also get the consent of parents for
all the respondents before conducting the research. This will be done to pay a respect
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Consent It is one of the most important way of showing respect to the persons
during research (Creswell, 2012). The purpose of this is to be aware to them that they
are involved to your research. Written consent was provided for them to get their
approval. After getting their approval they will be actively participated your purpose to
interview.
Beneficence
The information from the participants must be kept in order not to put each participant
into risks. We need to make the participants always protected, so that the information
Confidentiality
In the results and findings the safety of the participants that system were used.
Means, the participant’s identities were hidden. All the data and proof from the
participants such as video tape, notes, and voice record must be destroyed after the
Some participants are afraid to express their true feelings because of the fear
that give to them as the consequences to what their talking about. We will extra careful
with the questions and due to respect was given to this study.
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Justice
generally part of the success of the research. They must be given due credits in all their
endeavours (Bloom and Crabtree, 20016). They were not able to spend any amount
during the interview. Sensible tokens were given to them as a sign of recognition for
their efforts for the study. We hope that through this study they will get freedom to
whatever negative experiences they had as they teach non-readers and maintain a good
name into what positive contributions they could offer in this study.
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