THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDIA LITERACY COMPETENCY AND THE POLITICAL STANCE OF THE STUDENTS IN DAVAO DEL NORTE STATE COLLEGE

Authors

  • Krisseah Marie Hilay Student, Davao Del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines
  • Michelle Laurente Student, Davao Del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines
  • Jenerica Marquez Student, Davao Del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines
  • Marjorie Orig Student, Davao Del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines
  • Glendell Jadraque Faculty, Davao Del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TR3SW

Keywords:

media environment, information, information competency

Abstract

Being critical in today's media environment is crucial to becoming a well-informed citizen. The proliferation of internet hoaxes misleading the people has become rampant. The internet user's duty and responsibility are to conduct a simple scan of the laid information and be accountable for the effects it may cause. As modern platforms such as social media popularize various content, including political posts, literacy in criticizing propaganda should manifest. This research aimed to overlook whether media literacy correlates with peoples' political stances. The questionnaires were split into both variables, providing the media information competency scores and the political perspectives of the students in Davao del Norte State College. The results show that students' media literacy has a mean of 4.2637 with a standard deviation of 0.47603. At the same time, the political stance yields a mean of 4.2978 with a standard deviation of 0.43568. This result proves that both have a weak positive relationship, indicating that media literacy is not the sole factor in one's political engagements.

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Published

2022-06-23

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 6 (2022): IJIERT

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