Gec 02

• The POLITICAL SELF Macayan, Pinugu and Castillo (2019) pointed out that as members of the society, people are naturally obligated to participate in a political system as social citizens. As citizens, people become aware of their duties and responsibilities that should empower them to participate in state and political affairs. Politics refers to the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a nation or a society.
• Politics is equated with power. In some instances, even in our own homes – politics is evident. Looking around, even our community shares a considerable impact like the following illustrations; (a) when people can freely express themselves; (b) when our government manages to protect us; (c) when we express ourselves in varied means to our co-workers, classmates or friends; and lastly (d) even the amount of money we have (earn) is a political statement that shapes oneself.
• Gutierrez-Ang (2018) clustered the Filipino values in three distinct categories: personalism, familialism and particularism. Personalism refers when one validates other people’s sense of dignity as a human being. Familialism on the other hand, are those

  traditions and activities in the community that revolves around the interest of the family.

  And lastly, when one insinuates Filipino knack for patronizing someone who is familiar

  or one who they relate to, it refers to particularism.
• Macayan, Pinugu and Castillo (2019) explained politics as embedded by man in four key points: First, politics is concerned with power. Second, politics functions based on particular social, economic, and cultural context. Third, political is also personal: one’s personal choices reflect his/ her personal politics – both are indistinguishable. And lastly, politics pervades the structure of the society, thus it influences its people through their beliefs, ethics, and behavior
• Political self is not only shaped by one’s political affiliation or beliefs. Everyone is naturally inclined to have choices and reactions to political scenarios. Political self is anchored in the inclination to participate, remain engaged and become accountable.
• Active citizenship refers to the structured forms of engagements with political processes and everyday forms of participation in society. This is the process of sharing decisions which affects one’s life and the community in which one lives. It gives foundation to democracy to which participation is its fundamental right of one’s citizenship.
• The value of active citizenship is anchored on one’s cognitive and behavioral engagement to participate in formal and informal political activities.
• our youth today are identified being the generation of “digital natives”
• The Global Digital Snapshot With the rise of technology, ways of socializing have significantly changed. A report from World’s Internet, Mobile and Social Media Users (January 2017) reported the following significant figures. Total population (World) 7.476 Billion Internet users 3.733 Billion Active Social Media Users 2.789 Billion
• Further, it is noteworthy to examine the following growth in the use of the internet and social media from the same report. Internet users are +10% (since 2016) that is equal to + 354 million in numbers.

  Active social media users are +21% (since 2016) that translate an estimated 482 million additional users.
• Digital Identity Macayan, Pinugu and Castillo (2019) mentioned that people generally have “role identities”. These are the characters and roles an individual creates as a member of a particular social group. Following this definition, the ‘self’ is composed of identities ranked by importance. The greater the commitment of an individual to a particular identity, the greater the importance of this identity. Hence, the importance of one’s role identity influences the behavioral choices an individual makes in each situation.
• Digital Identity refers to the identity a person claims in the cyberspace. A digital identity allows a person to be part of the virtual community that goes beyond physical and geographical boundaries. By having a digital identity, one can leave online footprints (account name, friends, likes, comments, and shares) in cyberspace.
• Online Disembodiment is when in the use of social media, people may act differently since interaction in social media do not happen face-to-face and there is no physical presence required. This is the more or less likely the display of their real “selves” to others, most oftentimes even to strangers.
• Online Disinhibition Effect refers when people adopt fake identities, they are likely to engage in behaviors that they would not do in real life interactions. This effect as an online behavior are categorized further into two: (a) benign disinhibition and (b) toxic disinhibition. If one tends to self-disclose more on the internet than on real life it refers to the benign disinhibition, while on the other hand, online users who use rude language, bully or threatens others and go to websites with contents of violence, crime and pornography are considered toxic inhibition.
• The Importance of Digital Technology 3.1. Technology has changed the social features of people’s lives; altered the ways how people view social dimension of relationships. 3.2. It improved not only the common areas in people’s daily lives, but also areas of education, health, and production industries. 3.3. It enabled volumes of information to be compressed in compact storage devises, to easily contained and delivered, minimizing the transmission of data. 3.4. Digital technology brought about innovations and contributed to a change in the work patterns.
• The Self in the Digital World The use of internet primarily serves three major purposes (Macayan, Pinugu and Castillo, 2019): (1) social interaction, (2) information acquisition and generation and (3) entertainment. It is not surprising that majority of people today are exposed to gadgets, mobile applications, and the internet.
• Nine Manifested Technological and Online Behaviors

  • Digital Access
  • Digital Commerce
  • Digital Communication
  • Digital Literacy
  • Digital Etiquette
  • Digital Law
  • Digital Rights and Responsibilities
  • Digital Health and Wellness
  • Digital Security
• Digital Access

  Full electronic participation in society
• Digital Commerce

  Electronic buying and selling of goods
• Digital Communication

  Electronic exchange of information
• The Data Privacy Act To protect the people from the invasion of privacy, Republic Act 10173, otherwise known as the Privacy Act of 2012 was passed in the Philippines.
• Digital Literacy

  Process of teaching and learning using technology
• Digital Etiquette

  Electronic standards of conduct and procedure
• Digital Law

  Electronic responsibility for actions and deeds (ethics)
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities

  Freedoms extended to everyone in the digital world
• Digital Health and Wellness

  Physical and psychological well-being of using media
• Digital Security


  Electronic precautions to guarantee safety