Social Media among Adolescents in Developing Career Skills

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Social Media among Adolescents in Developing Career Skills
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Research Problem and Question......................................................................................................4
Literature review..............................................................................................................................6
Introduction..................................................................................................................................6
Social Media Platforms in the Present Age.................................................................................6
Social Media use that can Impact Career Skills among Adolescents..........................................7
Impact of Social Media for the Development of Career Skills...................................................8
Career Development of adolescents with Social Media Platforms...........................................9
Negative Impact of Social Media..............................................................................................10
Chapter 3: Research methodology.................................................................................................11
3.0 Overview..............................................................................................................................11
3.1 Research outline...................................................................................................................11
3.2 Research philosophy............................................................................................................11
3.3 Research approach...............................................................................................................12
3.4 Research design...................................................................................................................13
3.5 Research strategy.................................................................................................................14
3.6 Sampling size and sample technique...................................................................................14

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3.7 Data collection process........................................................................................................15
3.8 Data analysis technique.......................................................................................................16
3.9 Ethical considerations..........................................................................................................16
3.10 Accessibility issues............................................................................................................17
3.11 Summary............................................................................................................................17
Chapter 5: Conclusion...................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................20
Appendix........................................................................................................................................24
Survey questionnaire.................................................................................................................24

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Introduction
In today’s world the social networking sites realm have increased rapidly and various
scholars have started probing into the key aspects of social networking sites. It has been noticed
that the usage of social networking sites among the adolescents or college students is higher than
any other group of people. Besides, it can be said that the use of social media platform has turned
into a necessity for the teenagers.
This topic has interested our team because we wanted to research on a theme which influences
the future business. In the current scenario, social media platforms has a vital role in determining
the success of a business and adolescents being the next generation entrepreneurs, we as a team
wish to research on the impact these social networking platforms would have in developing the
career skills among the adolescents.
Literature Review
It has been researched that the modern forms of education in schools, colleges and
universities permits the students to use laptops and smart phones for changing the classroom
dynamics, staying organized and assessing learning (Park et al. 2009).
Another study was conducted by Ellen B Meier and Keol Lim (2012) that clearly
analyzed and provided an in-depth overview about the influence of social networking sites on the
Korean students. The entire study focus attention on how there is an increase of international
students getting admission in US universities. It constrained themselves for two specific
questions like how the international students use various social networking sites and how does
these students make out the influence of these sites on developing affective career skills?

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A research study by Moira Burke and Cameron Marlow (2011) named “Facebook as
social capital” gave special importance in distinguishing the uses and the users. According to
them, social networking sites are treated as an activity of monolithic.
Petter Bae Brandtzaeg and Jan Heim (2009) considered the key shape of impetus factors
that inspects the usage of social networking sites among college students. The researchers
critically found that the major subjective motivational reasons for using the social networking
sites are key attempts for understanding the use of choice, adoption, acceptance, and diffusion of
social networking sites mainly among the college students.
Nicole Ellison (2008) studies that social networking sites has great significance in
students for provoking the level of insights. The study specifically disclosed that about 85%
participants are active in more than one social networking site which shows that there has been a
significant increase in using these sites in the past couple of years.
Research Problem and Question
Over the past decade, many research studies have been conducted all around the globe for
investigating how the social networking sites may influence the adolescents in development of
career skills. This is the research problem that we intend to address that would prolifically
facilitate a clear overview about the distinctive dimensions of influence of social networking
sites in adolescents in developing their career skills.
Thus the research focuses on the following Primary question:
 How do social media influence adolescents in developing their career skills?
Also, the following sub-questions will be looked into:

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 What are the positive impacts of social media to develop career skills in adolescents?
What are the negative impacts of social media to develop career skills in adolescents