The Topic Question

The advent of the internet and the social media in the era of 1990s has led towards the development of major world communication that has improved and boosted up the reputation and the recognition of the social networking sites (Gerbaudo 2018). Signs and the social networking websites provides the platform towards the debate and the discussion regarding the issue that has been continuously overlooked in the scenario of the current era and for the problems that has remained unnoticed in the current trends of the world. The assignment explains a summary regarding the current or the latest evidences depending on the role of the signs and the social media towards the influence of the health and the wellbeing of the individuals in the society.

The topic question of the assignment or the report illustrates a thorough summary regarding the context of the increasing international and the national concerns regarding the health and the wellbeing of the population of the nation, specially the youth group of the Australian country (Valenzuela, Arriagada and Scherman 2014). The questions for the research study target the influence or the impact of the signs and the social media on the lives of the youth generation and the extent of the unhealthy behavior of the lifestyle of them including mental health problems, obesity and access towards risky environments in the online platform. The context of the signs and the social websites can be furthermore defined as the platform that enables the user or the population for initiating the sharing of the content or towards the participation in the social networking platform (Boyd 2014). The increasing craze of the social media websites has led towards the hosting of the query regarding the effect or the impact on the society even in the plethora of the consideration that the platform of the signs and the social media tends to impact the living styles of the people and the ongoing procedure for the effective identification of the nature and the category of the influences in the targeted population, i.e. is the youth population of the country.

The context of the research philosophy is generally considered towards the proper analysis and the development of the study in detail purpose. There includes a total number of three categories of research philosophies included in the domain of the research data collection procedure (Shabir et al. 2014). These are interpretivism, positivism and realism. In this particular study of analysis, the philosophy of the positivism research was being categorized for usage since it will eventually help towards initiating investigation of the issues in a critical and a logical manner. The objective of the research study was to identify the pattern and the use of signs and the social websites among the youth population in Australia and the relative impact of the use on their health and the stages of wellbeing. The data collection method included a survey that was carried out with the focus and the target over the population of the teenagers in Australia aged among 11 to 18 years. The collection process included questionnaires in both hard and soft copies with the inclusion of mostly close ended questions. The project conducted for the assignment targeted towards the effective generation of the newer evidences on the categories and the types of the content that is related to the health of the youth people of Australia towards the access from the platform of the signs and the social networks (Loader, Vromen and Xenos 2014). The assignment furthermore highlights the identification of the categories of the content which tend to impact the health connected understandings and the behaviors of the youth population. In the context of the method of the data collection, the research study has eventually depend on the collection of both data related to primary and the secondary sources. The primary information or the data was collected form the survey analysis and the questionnaires that were  distributed among the participating youth community. The secondary data included the numerous printed and the online forms (Gainsbury et al. 2016).  In case of the particular analysis, the aim of the project highlights towards the understanding of the impacts of the health from the relative use of the health connected social media from the perspectives of the young generation in Australia. apart from the collection of the data from the questionnaire analysis, data was furthermore collected form the secondary online resources like peer reviewed journal articles, resources from online books and more. In the project designed for the assignment, a participatory mixed methodology was undertaken with the related deign for the adoption and the involvement of the activities of the class, furthermore focusing on the group interviews and workshops with the younger people.

Data Collection

The techniques of the sample that was utilized for the purpose of the research included both the context of the probability and the non probability techniques of the sampling. Furthermore, techniques of simple random sampling will be utilized for the study in order to understand or gain a better understanding of the topic. For effective analysis of the quantitative data that was collected by the means of the survey, the gathered information will be changed into numeric and rates, with the end goal to pick up a thorough and examination information of the gathered information (Xenos, Vromen and Loader 2014). This information would then be able to be changed over into diagrams and charts with the end goal to show a graphical or pictorial portrayal of the equivalent. With the end goal to assess the subjective information, the topical methodology will be embraced. The data accumulated from the meeting will be composed considering different subjects that are straightforwardly identified with the exploration theme.

Furthermore strict ethical guidelines and considerations has been followed during the process of the entire research. In case of the survey, no youths were forced for the participation and a consent form was previously signed by all of the participants of the survey ensuring that they are participating on the basis of their will.

From the result and the findings of the survey and the data collection it was observed that the context of the gender or sex does not have any sort of effect or impact towards the use of the signs and the social media sites. Though the proportion of the male teenagers is slightly greater than that of the female, by the survey revealed the negligible non response rate among the teenagers in the method of sampling. Some of the highly used and categorized signs and the social networking websites along the teenagers as founded by the survey includes the name such as the Facebook, the twitter, the google+, Hi5, Myspace, Flicker, Friendster, LinkedIn, Ning and more (Rice et al. 2016). More than half of the teenagers or the youths reported towards the access to their favorite social pages on a daily basis. Some of the key findings of the survey or the collection of the data includes the following. The context of the social media tends to offer some of the most exceptional opportunities towards the information of the youth’s learning regarding their health ad towards the range of the effects or the impact on their health and the behaviors related to wellbeing (Richards, Caldwell and Go 2015). Secondly, a much significant amount of the unregulated and unsolicited information regarding the health and the context of the wellbeing on the social media tends to reach the young people and affect them negatively on the wellbeing and the status of their health. The signs and the platform of the social sites are furthermore responsible towards the fact that the larger amounts of the inappropriate content tend to reach the young generation of the country who are constantly active in their favorite’s online platform. Findings from the research furthermore objectifies how there lies tendency that the young people tend to choose towards the engagement of an act on the basis of the information on things lie the number of likes, the number of comments and whether the site they are using is official. The contents that are created and shared by the peers and the related actions of the young people towards the liking or non-liking of the posts tends to have powerful and impactful influence over the behaviors and the understandings related to the segment of health and wellbeing. The data collected form the secondary resources that is the peer reviewed journals, directed the use of the social websites and the impact on the youths and the other population in the Indian continent as one of the worst scenarios in the world (Vromen, Xenos and Loader 2015). This is because, according the study and the report, the major number of social webpages and signs are accessed in the Indian continent. People in India gets to be one of the most easy targets for the frauds and the hackers. Major number of male populations is involved in the surfing of the social pages as compared to the female population. Some of the other key findings includes that the young people in the country are tethered towards the use of the social media, most of the youngsters check their social webpages on an interval of 1 hours even before or after and sometimes within the time frame of the school. 53% of the population from the survey analysis reported to access the signs and the webpages to see through the health information regarding the intake of the food, sleep, exercise of the body (Dunlop, Freeman and Jones 2016). While some reported to undergo serious changes in health issues and related habits due to the excessive use of the social media. half of the population reported to have changes their health related behaviors due to some of the content they have witnessed on the platform of the social media.

Analysis

Conclusion

Signs and the social networking websites provides the platform towards the debate and the discussion regarding the issue that has been continuously overlooked in the scenario of the current era and for the problems that has remained unnoticed in the current trends of the world The above study concludes the to identify the pattern and the use of signs and the social websites among the youth population in Australia and the relative impact of the use on their health and the stages of wellbeing. With the philosophy of the positivism research, the assignment and the collection of the data was being categorized for usage since it will eventually help towards initiating investigation of the issues in a critical and a logical manner. The assignment explained a summary regarding the current or the latest evidences depending on the role of the signs and the social media towards the influence of the health and the wellbeing of the individuals in the society.

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