LESSON 1

The Concept of Virality within the Parameters of the Philippine Popular Culture

How about you, how important Social Media is to you?

Social media plays an important to me. It is often makes me easier and more
convenient to access information, provide information and communicate via social
media. Social media also helps me to communicate to my love ones. Social media teach
me to post anything I feel or anything I want to share to others as long as it didn’t hurt
the feelings of the reader or the viewer of my post. Because I believe in the saying
“check before you click”. We have to be mindful of our social medias platform because
we don’t know the possible impact to our reader that may cause trouble to other. Always
remember social media is not only for fun, but see to it when we use social media, we
should be considerate and share reliable source to avoid spreading of fake news.
What Social Media site/apps are you currently using as of the moment?

Facebook, messenger, tiktok, Instagram, and etc.

They said, twitter is good for posting random feelings and rants. While Instagram are good for pictures.
How about Facebook, what is it good at?

Facebook is good for communicating to our friends, family, classmates, co-

workers and our love ones. Facebook can make our communication easier because we
can be able to message, post, and share our thought, feelings and emotion to a specific
person, and we can be able to share our photos, videos and etc. Facebook may also
teach us to be aware of what we post through social media, because it can change the
individual’s perspective and beliefs that may affect individual’s lives. Many things we can
do using a Facebook app like posting, sharing, chatting and we can connect to other
person we wanted to be connected with.

How things go viral on social media

Paste here the screenshot of a viral posts in Facebook that made you laugh.

The story behind this post:

How many likes/reactions the post gets?

How many times it was shared?

The story behind this post:

How many likes/reactions the post gets?

How many times it was shared?

When it comes to being viral, it is not just only limited to funny or sad videos, sometimes, it is
NEWS that shocked the netizens, it is things or incidents that surprised world.

The story behind this post:

How many likes/reactions the post gets?

How many times it was shared?

Also, there are people that went viral, too! It may because of the things they did or said that
made them crazy popular in social media.
Here are a few people that made it to the top most talked about individuals today. Share your
thoughts about them and why do you think they have gone viral!
 The Korean Wave in the Philippines
Now, watch the movie Parasite and explain how do you exactly feel about the movie. Write your
thoughts on this Korean masterpiece that won four leading awards at the 92nd Academy Awards!

PARASITE MOVIE REVIEW

One clear way to explain the movie is: “Parasite is about class.” Class is the primary target of
social commentary within Parasite. And every single element of the film from the scholar's
stone, to the architecture of the homes, to the very names of the families all contribute to this
central theme

Many people really adore the BTS and BlackPink. What do you think of them as the leading
music artist in the industry today?

Many Filipinos, especially the younger generation gets really addicted with the K-Pop music and
even join fan clubs. Do you think it is okay to patronize other country’s music than our own
OPM?

THE RISE OF K-DRAMA

Do you watched K-Drama? Name one K-drama that you have watched or wanted to watch and
write the synopsis of the movie.
Title:
Synopsis:
 Korean Body language
Post a photo of you using any of the given popular Korean Hand gestures
What I feel when I do this pose:

The Uses and Gratification Theory

When you use social media and browse through it, what is that need you think you fulfilled and
why?

Do you like watching reality TV like the Pinoy Big Brother? Why or Why not?
Yes, Because watching reality TV show like Pinoy Big Brother it gives more vivid and
pictureque version of human emotions and high enthusiastic, ebullient people get a
better platform to showcast their skills and talent on national television.
Why do they say that Mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, etc. are new form of
communication tool used for uses and gratification?