User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim

Sharenting is an act of a parent who habitually sharing a lot of information regarding their children via social media. However, excessive sharenting increases exposure to risk to both the young parents and the children as more personal information are being shared publicly. Since sharenting has bec...

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Main Author: Abdul Rahim, Nur Hidayah
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Published: 2017
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spelling my-uitm-ir.647042023-07-21T03:54:28Z User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim 2017 Abdul Rahim, Nur Hidayah Individual ethics. Character. Virtue. Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices, success, ethics for children Facebook Sharenting is an act of a parent who habitually sharing a lot of information regarding their children via social media. However, excessive sharenting increases exposure to risk to both the young parents and the children as more personal information are being shared publicly. Since sharenting has become a trend in social media, people have the tendency to follow it hence a lot of details are being shared by young parents regarding their children, in ethical awareness or without. Therefore, this research is conducted to study the user perception on ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook. The result of this research is established using qualitative method, which is by interviewing five young parents to obtain the data. Nevertheless, there are limitations as the research only focuses on one social media, namely Facebook. From the findings of this research, a best practice or guidelines are proposed on how to ensure an appropriate sharenting as to reduce the negative impacts of the activity. Referring to the findings, most of the young parents know how to filter what is appropriate and what is not to be shared in Facebook. Most of the participants were just sharing happy moments with their friends and families, and sharing information and advices, encouragement and there were a few factors stated by the participants during the interview sessions, for example, to stay connected, to get advice, motivation and encouragement from friends and families and following the trend. These factors showed the positive side of sharenting. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64704/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64704/1/64704.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Gian Singh, Jasber Kaur
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Gian Singh, Jasber Kaur
topic Individual ethics
Character
Virtue
Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices, success, ethics for children
Facebook
spellingShingle Individual ethics
Character
Virtue
Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices, success, ethics for children
Facebook
Abdul Rahim, Nur Hidayah
User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
description Sharenting is an act of a parent who habitually sharing a lot of information regarding their children via social media. However, excessive sharenting increases exposure to risk to both the young parents and the children as more personal information are being shared publicly. Since sharenting has become a trend in social media, people have the tendency to follow it hence a lot of details are being shared by young parents regarding their children, in ethical awareness or without. Therefore, this research is conducted to study the user perception on ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook. The result of this research is established using qualitative method, which is by interviewing five young parents to obtain the data. Nevertheless, there are limitations as the research only focuses on one social media, namely Facebook. From the findings of this research, a best practice or guidelines are proposed on how to ensure an appropriate sharenting as to reduce the negative impacts of the activity. Referring to the findings, most of the young parents know how to filter what is appropriate and what is not to be shared in Facebook. Most of the participants were just sharing happy moments with their friends and families, and sharing information and advices, encouragement and there were a few factors stated by the participants during the interview sessions, for example, to stay connected, to get advice, motivation and encouragement from friends and families and following the trend. These factors showed the positive side of sharenting.
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title User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
title_short User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
title_full User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
title_fullStr User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
title_full_unstemmed User perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in Facebook / Nur Hidayah Abdul Rahim
title_sort user perception of ethical awareness on sharenting in facebook / nur hidayah abdul rahim
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
publishDate 2017
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