Social Media - Policy Paper

• Social Media


  Plays a big part and role in society as it provides all the information we need, and helps people and organizations remains connected and updated in everything that is happening in the country
• Social Media has partly influenced government policies.
• Social Media changed how campaigns worked.
• Social Media affects individuals standpoints about specific issues.
• Socialization


  Process by which the members of society internalize the rules and patterns of the behavior.
• Agents of Socialization


  Persons, groups, or institutions that teach us what we need to know in order to participate in society.
• Family is the primary agent of socialization
• Two Purposes of Schools in Socialization

  Manifest Functions and Latent Functions
• Manifest functions are those intended purposes of schools such as teaching academic subjects, preparing students for college, and providing vocational training.
• Latent functions are unintended consequences of schooling such as promoting conformity, encouraging competition, and fostering independence.
• Hidden Curriculum


  schools teach competition, discipline, cooperation, order, and obedience; this is the key to success in a society dominated by large organizations.
• Issue in Quality of Education


  The quality of the students produced by the education system was not high enough to fulfill the standards.
• Issues in Affordability of Education


  Education is based on affordability, the higher you can your budget, the better education quality that you will receive.
• Issues in Budget of Education


  Even though the Philippine Constitution mandated the government to allocate the highest proportion of its budget to education, our country has the lowest budget allocation to education among the ASEAN countries.
• Issues in Mismatch of Education


  People with more training and experience will be more likely to be chosen than graduates with outstanding degrees, achievements, or even awards.
• Peer Groups in Socialization


  People linked by common interests, equal social position, and similar age; have a great deal of power over members.
• Mass Media in Socialization


  Forms of communication directed to large audiences, and includes TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines; it entertains us and shapes our attitudes and values. Mass media bombards youth with advertising while socializing other age groups to the music and style of the youth subculture.
• Media is the traditional watchdog of the government.
• Broadcast media


  The traditional forms of media like television, radios, and etc.
• Printed Media


  Newspapers, magazines, and other forms of printed material
• Outdoor Media


  Also known as outdoor advertising, aimed to reach consumers through marketing platforms such as billboards and signs.
• Social Media


  Created interactive technologies designed to speed-up information sharing and virtual communication.
• Work Place as Agent of Socialization


  Like peer groups, we form friendships at work that teach us a perspective on the world as well on work.
• Religion as Agent of Socialization


  It shapes our morality, values, and perceptions about God.
• Proposition


  The measure proposed by the voters
• Petition


  The more formal way of proposition which is a written instrument containing the proposition and the required number of signatories.
• Parts of a Petition

  the text field for the decision on the proposed law, the proposition, the reasons, signatures of the petitioners, abstract
• People's Initiative


  It is the way to propose/make laws beyond the power vested in Congress
• Initiative on Statutes 


  The enactment of national legislation by the people.
• Initiative on Local Legislation


  The enactment of ordinances and resolutions from the regional level down to the barangay level
• Initiative on the Constitution


  The amendments of the Constitution through petition by the people.
• Plebiscite/Referendum


  The electoral process by which an initiative on the Constitution is approved or rejected by the people
• Plebiscite is mostly used for lands borders, it also used for amendments in the constitutions
• All registered voters may excercise plebiscete
• Public Policy


  a manner in which problems are conceptualized and brought to the government for solutions that follow the formulation of alternatives, implementation, evaluation, and revision
• the legislative branch formulates laws to be enacted by the executive branch and interpreted by the judiciary.
• Key players of policy-making process

  Government & Citizens
• Policy-making process


  A problem exists, formulate ideas on how to solve the problem, different ideas will emerge, alternative proposals will also emerge, and agree on the most appropriate action.
• Agents of the Process

  Private Sphere, Civil Society, and Government
• Five Steps of Public Policy

  Agenda-setting, policy formulation, legislation, implementation, and monitoring