Social media's role among Tujia Ethnic Minority teenagers in Guizhou (China)
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In this study, we explore the role of social media in Ethnic minority teenagers’ lives, and describe their activities, using
frequencies, time spending, and their parents’ attitudes toward social software. To this purpose we randomly chose 50
students (aged: 13-18) to participate, who are Tujia ethnic minority in Guizhou. To collect data we used questionnaire
platform Sojump. Results show that mobile phone is the most frequent tool to use social media; the most used feature of
social media is chatting; most teens use social media everyday, and occupy part of their studying time; and more than half
parents regulte their children’s social media using, and they worried about social media effect children’s school marks.
Keywords: Ethnic minority,social media, Tujia teenager, school performance, mobile media.
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