Perception and awareness of CASS students from Central Luzon State University towards fake news on social media
| dc.contributor.author | Angelo L. Cortado | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-08T01:43:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-08T01:43:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Social media has an essential role for every student. It is beneficial as it enables them to acquire information, communicate with other people, taking videos and photos and developing their cooperative learning. The study focused to answer the general question: What is the perception and awareness of College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) students in Central Luzon State University regarding fake news on social media? Specifically, the study aims to answer the following: what are the students' socio-demographioc characteristics; what are the communication characteristics of respondents; what are the respondents of the study's definition of fake news; how do respondents verify the information they need; and what is the level of the awareness of students towards fake news. The reasons of respondents, as revealed, for using social media were to have communication with their family and friend, to be entertained, to gather and verify news/information, and to keep updated on latest events. Furthermore, fake news, as students have defined it was fabricated or false information that can manipulate and mislead social media users. Almost all of the students also indicated that they knew the proper way of verifying information. In terms of strategies in verifying information, students checked if the author/publisher was real and credible and checking if the date was updated. Moreover, the results revealed that students were fully aware in all of the provided information about fake news. As per respondents, their most used social media platform was Facebook. Also, it was the most frequently used to obtain and verify news/information. The study concludes that respondents used social media to communicate with their family and frienmds, to be entertained , to gather and verify nes/information and to keep updated on latest events. Furthermore, fake news as the most of the respondents has defined, it was fabricated or false information that can manipulate and mislead social media users. On the other hand, the strategies used by respondents to verify news/information were checking if the author/publisher is real and credible, and checking if the date is updated. In raising awareness, integrating MIL subjects in education plays a significant role in educating students about fake news. In line with this, the study also believes that this can educate students to not just be dependable on using social media platforms to acquire and verify information. Instead, they should check and use other reliable sources to check the accuracy and truthfulness of their information. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://granarium.clsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/452 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.supervisor | MARIA LOIDA D. IRABAGON | |
| dc.title | Perception and awareness of CASS students from Central Luzon State University towards fake news on social media | |
| dc.type | Thesis |