How Social Media overcome or Help in illiteracy complete power point presentation

1. HOW CAN SOCIAL MEDIA HELP OVERCOME
THE PROBLEM OF ILLITERACY?
PRESENTED BY:
ABBAS MURTAZA (2111102)
ABDUL WASAY (2111105)

2. Introduction
What is Social Media?
■ It is the use of IT based technology for sharing of ideas, thoughts and information's.
■ Social networking has grown much more than before.
■ The Internet has matured with billions of articles on almost any topic.
■ Viewing articles online is a great way to encourage reading in people's daily lives.
■ Social media also inspires people to write down their ideas and feelings.
■ People have also taught themselves a lot of useful skills by watching online videos.

3. Nature of the Social Issue
Illiteracy:
■ We have found that there are many types of illiterate people .
■ What people mean, and the illiteracy where social media can help to solve them effectively.
■ Some illiteracy cannot be successfully solved through Social Media.
■ It depends on the mindset of the individual community.
■ Individual's self-esteem and what qualities he or she is endowed with.

4. Cont’d
ILLITERACY :
 Unable to read and write anything.
 There are 20 types of Illiteracy.
 For example, you cannot take written information from a fairy tale to a
menu card and a business flyer or instruction manual.

5. Types Of Illiteracy
Cultural illiteracy:
 Caused by simply not understanding your background and history.
 Cannot understand the culture and traditions of others.
 This kind of thinking often leads to seeing the world as a fixed object.
Civic Illiteracy:
 People who fail to understand how an individual can bring a positive change in a community.
 This has become quite commonplace.

6. Cont’d
Racial Illiteracy:
 A person who cannot understand that races are different and treated differently.
 People suffer for not being able to understand the differences.
Financial Illiteracy:
 Problem of understanding financial management.
 Often the cause of poverty, inequality and dissatisfaction in life.
 People are on the path to poverty.

7. Cont’d
Factual Illiteracy:
 Those who find it difficult to think of critical matters.
 Uneducated people are actually easily lured in to it.
IT Illiteracy:
 Pace of growth in IT sector is increasing day by day.
 Many people find it difficult to cope up.

8. Continued…
■ Perception illiteracy:
• Blind trust on the source of information.
• Not considering the actual facts.

9. Affects Of The Issue On Stakeholders
Illiteracy can affect them positively and negatively:
• Individuals
• Government
• Multinationals and Local organizations

10. THE CYCLE OF ILLITERACY

11. WHERE DOES THIS ISSUE EXISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE?
■ Although this issue exist globally, yet there are some countries like Japan, Finland, and Canada
that have a literacy rate of nearly 100%.
■ This issue mainly exists in parts of Continents such as in South and West Asia, and in some parts
of Africa. Countries such as, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Mali, South Sudan, etc.
■ About 773-781 million literal illiterate adults across the globe.
■ Literacy rate of Pakistan is 60%. Which means around 60 million people are illiterate out of which
46 million are women.
■ Punjab has the highest literacy rates (79%), which is followed by KPK (72%), Sindh (60%) and
lastly, Baluchistan(18- 25%).

12. History and Background of Illiteracy
■ Illiteracy has been there for centuries. But its context and method have changed with
time.
■ For example, people use to fight with swords before and now they fight and show
aggressiveness through social media.
■ With passage of time, advancements and due to cultural diversity, different forms of
illiteracies arose.

13. Events That Brought Illiteracy Into Attention
■ Lack of money and resources is the foremost reason for illiteracy in Pakistan.
• Even if someone has money, they lack resource (financial) management skills.
■ Due to many propagandas, the soviet union broke into many parts causing it to end.
■ Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb lost his whole empire due to multiple types of illiteracies (For e.q: Financial, etc.)
■ Many people can be specified to a type of illiteracy simply because of they don’t know about it, not by their
capability such as, old people.

14. METHODOLOGY
QUALLITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONS :
1. How does illiteracy affect the society?
2. What are the reasons of illiteracy in our society?
3. What are the problems of illiteracy?
4. What are the solution to the problem of illiteracy?
5. What are the things that you can do to help in alleviating illiteracy in your own community?
6. According to you, is social media making people illiterate?
7. Can social media help overcome the problem of illiteracy?
8. How is illiteracy hindrance in social development?

15. DETAILS OF RESEARCH METHODS
■ QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY :
• As a research method, the survey collects data from topics that answer a series of questions about
behaviour and ideas, usually in the form of a questionnaire.
■ INTERVIEWS:
• An interview is a one-person conversation between a researcher and a topic, and is a way of doing
research on a topic.
• They are mostly done privately.

16. HOW RESEARCH METHODS WERE USED ?
■ SURVEYS: Surveys use open-ended questions to produce longer / typed longer written
answers.
■ ONLINE SURVEYS: Open-ended questions will be presented to participants in an
email-based format or within an online assessment tool, often accompanied by multiple-
choice test questions on the same topic.
■ INTERVIEWS: We will design such an interview which will get higher source of
information about our topic in focus group.

17. QNAs Of Surveys
 How does illiteracy affect the society?
• The illiterate die young, and their children do as well.
• They are more likely to get involved in criminal activities.
 What are the reasons of illiteracy in our society?
• Poverty and Social Constraints.

18. Continued
■ What are the solution to the problem of illiteracy?
• The provision of free education.
 What are the things that you can do to help in alleviating illiteracy in your own
community?
• Donate books.
• Offer literacy programs in institutions by volunteers.
 According to you, is social media making people illiterate?
• Yes by the example of Xenocentrism.
• Cyberbullying, hate speech and Slangs.

19. Questions Asked In The Interviews?
■ How do you define literacy?
■ What are the reasons of illiteracy in our society?
■ According to you, is social media making people literate?
■ In your opinion how can you improve financial illiteracy problem?
■ How did you acquired knowledge before social media, and do you think social media has helped in the
modern era?
■ How can you use functional literacy in your daily life?
■ How often do you post something which spread awareness?

20. Continued…
■ We further asked about if they or someone they know have used any online tutoring
website to learn something?
■ Moreover, we discussed about different platforms and made them choose which is the
most suitable for an illiterate person to acquire some knowledge.

21. Findings Of Interviews
■ In terms of knowledge, social media helps a lot such as helping you know the current situation.
■ Illiteracy is being unaware of what's happening around you, in your country, current affairs, how
things work, and advancements.
■ Not being able to distinguish between right and wrong.
■ Younger generation thought that social media has played a very crucial role in overcoming illiteracy
and personal grooming.
■ However, some think that it is an individuals will, whether he is using it to get some knowledge or
not.

22. Continued…
■ Interviewees say that old people used mediums such as radio, reading or listening to
others such as your family, friends to get information about anything and get awareness,
but now everything is easily available on the web for the illiterate to acquire.
■ Similarly, some stated that things were easy in the previous era, and this era is far more
complex in terms of education and other aspects.
■ Social media is a form of informal education, where you can easily learn numerous
things.

23. Continued..
■ Some think that illiteracy is just an excuse nowadays, everything is available on social
media, that you even take online courses of a university while living in Pakistan.
■ 70% percent of the interviewees think that social media has helped in overcoming
illiteracy, while 30% percent think that it has further contributed.
■ Nowadays, people just believe on social media without doing any further research.
■ Social media cannot directly contribute in eradicating illiteracy but can provide you
many sources (Websites, Apps, Articles, etc.) which can help improve literacy rate.

24. Suggestions
1. Encourage the establishment of national network of summer learning
programs.
2. Develop a children media related literacy organization.
3. Create initiatives at the district level.
4. Collaborate with media and technological industries.
5. Create online media and digital literacy tests.

25. Recommendations
It is depending on the students of Pakistan:
1. Students who are already enrolling in educational institutions should focus on
increasing their civic literacy.
2. As students are already using social media, so before believing on any information
which is on social media, they should verify the information through facts.
3. Students should be aware of their history, culture, religion and values which the society
has given them.
4. Poverty is the major issue of Pakistan so students should learn how to manage scarce
resources. (Financial Literacy)
5. IT illiteracy in older people is high so the younger generation should help them in
improving their IT literacy rate.