Social media literacy and awareness of the youth in secondary school in Southern Thailand

• Main Authors: Seubsom, Korawan, Meeplat, Nopparat
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/20122/1/KMICe2016%20356%20361.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/20122/; http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/kmice2016/files/KMICe2016_eproceeding.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

The paper presents the outcome of a research that investigates the social media literacy, and to assess the level of awareness of media literacy from young people in secondary schools. This study used mixedmethod of both quantitative and quality research to collect data from four schools in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.This study used activities – based with involves four levels of media literacy framework; access, analyze, evaluate and create.The data were collected after the respondents met all levels of media literacy framework.The results of this study found that most students know how to learn and use social media literacy as four levels; access, analyze, evaluate and create. But some students do not know about how to use social media as a benefit for classroom learning. They lacked awareness of the benefits and downsides of social media, parents should tell them how to learn and how to perceive the good things from social media.