Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
A Thesis Proposal
University of Makati
In partial fulfillment
by
Barquilla, Beverly A.
III-BR2
October, 2019
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CHAPTER I
ABSTRACT
what information the public should know but instead are helping
interpreter all the greater”. By the presence of the new way on how
examines how reliable and credible online news for consumers daily
news consumptions.
people’s daily lives. The mass media also have accepted the online
television, and newspapers have extended their work into this new
daily news content and offer not only texts but also digital images.
Online news can present the most recent information and links to
the relatively free space that it affords for the articulation of news
and Lu, 2016). Online news websites are able to present news and
free access; anyone, in any place and in anytime can upload any
using it. Online audiences are surely increasing despite of the fact
people read online media and how people perceive the information.
since online users have easy access to abundant sources but also
publish any news and information online. However, less critical and
most people neither have time to verify its accuracy nor go back to
the same site because the browser may fail to find it again (Calvert,
new criteria for the online media literacy (Floridi, 1996; Levi, 2000).
following questions:
1. How reliable and credible online news for consumers daily news
consumption
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
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GROUND THEORY
become apparent, and are tagged with codes, which have been
These categories may become the basis for new theory. Thus,
framework, and only then collects data to show how the theory
propounds the fact that people choose what they want to see or
want to satisfy our curiosity. This would fit the news and
models for our behavior. So, for example, we may identify with
what feel about ourselves and if we agree with their actions and
programme as friends.
unintended ones.
know how credible and reliable the online news and helps
Survey was the main tool for gathering the data. The structure
study.
CHAPTER II
(WEB)
and also functions that would allow users to apply their own
interested them.
more from their online publications than they can get from printed
newspapers. His study found they drew significant value from being
concluded that, "participants who had links [in the version of the
story they were exposed to] "spent more time reading and were
better informed than those who did not". He believed this supported
1998; Massey & Levy, 1999; Schultz, 1999). Even a few years later,
are significantly more prevalent today than in 1997, the only real
addresses" (p. 109). They found that only 15.9 % of sites featured
survey also shows that most of the online public surveyed remains
also more likely to rely on that medium for information search and
taking into account the public interest, and taking into account
public morality and realism, and the public interest in the ideas of
press material so that where all the dimensions of the subject and
that are consistent with the views of others posed by the newspaper
source may help to confirm the event (Bowman and Willis, 2003)
genuine.
Popoola, 2014).
source may help to confirm the event (Bowman and Willis, 2003)
SYNTHESIS
media less and less credible. Or why some news organizations, such
problem.
obtain news and information. A question that may plague us for the
This lack of strong opinion is where the online news media may
that the public will be come critical of some practices and become
CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
disagree.”
Research Design