5 RESEARCH TOPICS
impact of memes to the students of batac junior college
the advantages and disadvantages of academic freeze to
students at batac junior college
positive and negative effects of modular learning of
batac junior college students during pandemic
new normal invesigating the advantage and
disadvantage of the residents
reason that cause the students to get depressed
IMPACT OF MEMES TO THE STUDENTS OF BATAC JUNIOR COLLEGE
I.
INTRODUCTION
Memes are photos to share and reblog, repost or retweet, especially among students. It’s not
always clear why we post, or create memes. Sometimes, we might think that the memes are
funny, or we can relate to the person behind the photo. The problem is, students didn’t always
think about the person behind the photo. Memes crop out the story behind them. It’s important to
make students aware of what memes really mean. After all, so many are being shared to social
media. There can be many different versions of the same meme, and even some that Photoshop
the person in bizzare situation. Memes are displayed in areas in the internet that the students can
easily gain access to. Images of messages with the pictures become engrained into a developing a
child’s mind. The viral tool will be vey hard to control as times moves on due to the popularity.
Memes are getiing too far out of hand for the students to the point in which cartoons and
character of children movies are used in negative ways. Still, what’s funny to one person could
be offensive to another. Students should know the limitation of what they are sharing and posting
in social media. Every memes has multiple version of itself that can be more cruel than funny.
Because of this, it’s crucial to the students to think of the message behind the meme. Internet
memes are one form of user-generated media content that may have real word effects on those
who view them. This study will focus on the negative and positive impact of memes, specifically
the students of Batac Junor College who are using it.
B. Objective of the study
This research aims to:
1. determine how memes affect the students;
2. know the factors influencing students using internet memes; and
3. determine the socio demographic profile of the respondents.
C. Significance of the study
The study benefits the students on the effect of memes. It helps the students to
determine what memes really are. And it’s a big help to the students to understand how
crucial memes are..
D. Scope and Limitation
This particular study focus on the selected Junior High School students of Batac Junior
College who use memes in internet with age range from 13-16 years old. This study will
seek to explore on evaluating the impacts that can influence the students who are using
internet memes. We conduct the study by giving them questionnaire and combine their
answers.
E. Operating Definition of Terms
Impact- the strong effect or influence that something has on a situation or person..
Students- a person who is studying at a school specifically at Batac Junior College.
Memes- an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be
Passed from one individual to another by nongenetic, especially imitation.
II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
LOCAL STUDY
The report showed by the “ We are social Singapore” based on the data shared by the “
Global web index”, shows that the Philippines tops time spent on the internet trough
laptop/desktop along with brazil in January 2016. They also shared that, nearly one third of
the world’s population now uses social media with the number of reported users around the
world jumping an impressive 10% in the past twelve months and the Filipino spend the most
time on social media out of the key 30 economies, clocking more than 3.5 hours per day. One
of the most popular memes in the country and one of the first generated was the Senyora
Santibanez Memes. The angelica Santibanez/ Senora meme is series of exploitable image
Marcos and Photoshop depicing the main antagonist in the Mexican telenovela Marimar as a
snobbish and stereotypically arrogant plantation owner. Another social media personality that
has been after memes has been widely engaged in the country was Lloyd Café Cadena
with over 300,000 subscribers in Youtube, and over 3 million followers on Facebook,
Lloyd Café cadena is a Youtube sensation. Online influencer and creative force all rolled into
one. he is widely known for his memes on Facebook an author of published book “Eng Serep
Megwele”, “Yung tataa?” and VIVA Psicom Publishing Corp.
With the use of the social media site known a “Twitter”, another Filipino Social Media
Personality shows the varity of memes in the country. Ate Charon, The self-proclaimed
Social Media Royalty, has over 45,000 followers on twitter and continues its way to fame on
Facebook by posting videos of parodies and other internet memes,
FOREIGN STUDY
The story of memes is crucial to the understanding of the digital culture, and not only as
characteristics of an internet subsculture, but as a cultural artifact that is gaining new
meaning and function as it is breaking more and more into the mainstream. Borzsei (2013)
states that the technological, sociological and cultural reason for the emergence of internet
meme culture was so prevalent today. His research focused on remixed Internet Memes that
is collaborative, absurdist humor in multimedia forms.
The term “meme” with the emergence of the Internet was also applied to content that
spread from user to user online. Shortly, memes was consisting of inside funny jokes. In fact,
memes were generated to show the cultural counter part of the genes. Its primary meaning
was supposed to signify “a unit of cultural transmission or a unit of
imitation.”(Dawkins,1976) Internet meme is a piece of culture, typically a joke, which gains
influence through online transmission- considered as the first definition of Internet meme
was proposed by Patrick Davidson (2009). According to brodie (1996), he claimes that
“memetics has uncovered the existence of viruses of the mind”, which are infectious piece of
our culture that spread rapidly throughout the population, altering people’s thoughts and
lives,” one of the earliest internet memes was the emoticon (Davidson). Smiley quickly
spread to other communities and it soon became a meme. The “sideways smiley face”
composed entirely of punctuation marks was created on 19 September 1982 by Scott E.
Fahman. Emoticons display many definite characteristics of Internet memes in a very
minimalistics form. Thus, these emotions became a vehicle in communicating certain ideas
Next to the emoticons is experimentation with technology was the website Ben is Evil.
which host images that can be considered examples of the modern remixed interet meme. It
was created by Dino Ignacio 1997, he is a Filipino artist and designer. Due to the
Photoshop’s accessibility (as a creative tool) is resulted in increasing number of private
images appearing online, right at the meme community’s disposal.
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Chapter III
METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researchers discuss the research design, sampling procedures, data gathering
instruments of the locale of the study, and ethical consideration.
A. RESEARCH DESIGN
The researchers choose a descriptive survey research design because it best served to
answer the questions and purposes of the study.
To conduct this study entitled “ Impact of MEMES to the students of Batac Junior College”
the researches studied the impact by collecting and analyzing data from high school student
of batac junior college. This defines that the study assessed public
BATAC JUNIOR COLLEGE
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CITY OF BATAC
NAME(optional):_______________________________________________________________
Grade and section:___________________________________AGE:_____________________
Hello, thank you for participating in my survey. These are questions for a research
project I am conducting is about “Impact of memes to the students of Batac Junior College”
this survey has only 10 questions and should take you less than 5 minutes. There are no right or
wrong answers.
By participating in this survey, you are indicating that you understand that your
responses are anonymous and will not be identified with you in any way and that you are at least
18 years old you may skip any question that you find intrusive or offensive, but it will help me if
you respond to as many questions as you feel comfortable with.
Thank you. I really appreciate your help!
Yours truly,
Aaron Joshua Agnir
1.) On a scale of one to five how familiar are you with internet memes?
a. One d. Four
b. Two e. Five
c. Three
2.) Do you enjoy the concept of internet Memes?
a. Yes, why?______________________________________________________
b. No, why?_______________________________________________________
3.) How often do you encounter Memes during you day?
a. Every now and then c. Often
b. Moderately d. Very frequently
4.) Where do you most frequently encounter Memes?
a. Twitter c. YouTube
b. Facebook d. Tumblr
5.) How long have you been using/sharing Memes?
a. About a month c. One week
b. Over a month d. Half a month
6.) Why do you share these Memes?
__________________________________________________________________
7.) How does Memes affect you?
a. It has a positive effect
b. It has a negative effect
c. It doesn’t have an affect on my studies
8.) Any final thoughts you would like to share?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
9.) Do you use social networking sites through your mobile phone?
a. Yes
b. No
10.) How much time do you spend on social media sites?
a. 30mins
b. 1 hour
c. 2 hours
d. 3 hours
e. More than 3 hours
