Sekundarni povzetek: |
This master's thesis consists of a theoretical and empirical part. In the first part, we are describing some common theoretical background of online social media, especially Facebook, its characteristics and connection to the youth's academic performance. We also acknowledged some positive and negative effects of social media on the youth and the influence they have on education. Further on, we used defined academic performance using factors and have discussed parental control over their children's social media use. Lastly, we have shown some examples of how a school can use Facebook in its teaching process. In the next, empirical part, we introduced our empirical research, done through an online survey page 1ka. 123 secondary school students from Koroška and Štajerska region took part in our research. We used the statistical program SPSS to analyze the data. The results have shown that most of our respondents use Facebook multiple times daily. As the previously gathered data shows, Facebook remains the most commonly used social medium, though not among teenagers, where it has lost its first place to Snapchat and Instagram. The two, especially Snapchat, are growing in popularity. Our research has come to the same conclusions. The youth use social media to socialize and keep contact with friends, to gather and give information on school activities, to entertain themselves, etc. Parents trust their children with their Facebook and other social media accounts use. Although we have not managed to prove a connection between Facebook and academic performance (a small and limited representative sample), as we have shown in the theoretical part, both a negative and a positive connection do exist. |