Conclusion
AFTER OUR RESEARCH, WE concluded that social media is indeed more effective in helping Singaporeans become more aware of events around the world as compared to local newspapers. In other words, it increases Singaporeans' knowledge of events happening in countries apart from Singapore faster as compared to local newspapers.
We came to this conclusion after comparing the results, as it was shown that 32.9% of respondents read news about events around the world on social media daily as compared to the 11.6% who read local newspapers daily. 11% of respondents did not read news about events in other countries on social media platforms, while the figure stood at 13.7% for local newspapers.
Along with this, 3.5 million unique Singaporeans have an active social media account, while only around 1 million Singaporeans buy the local newspaper on a daily basis. This shows that social media has a wider audience than the local newspaper, thus it is more likely that people will read about events in other countries on social media than on newspapers.
Even though there are people who do not read news about events in other countries on both social media platforms and local newspapers, it is clear that social media plays a bigger role in the spreading of news about events in other countries than local newspapers through the results. Thus, it affirms our hypothesis that the use of social media increases Singaporeans' knowledge of events happening in countries apart from Singapore faster than as compared to local newspapers.
Hence, we are able to conclude that social media is indeed more effective in helping Singaporeans become aware of events around the world as compared to local newspapers through our data collected and the statistics presented to us.
We came to this conclusion after comparing the results, as it was shown that 32.9% of respondents read news about events around the world on social media daily as compared to the 11.6% who read local newspapers daily. 11% of respondents did not read news about events in other countries on social media platforms, while the figure stood at 13.7% for local newspapers.
Along with this, 3.5 million unique Singaporeans have an active social media account, while only around 1 million Singaporeans buy the local newspaper on a daily basis. This shows that social media has a wider audience than the local newspaper, thus it is more likely that people will read about events in other countries on social media than on newspapers.
Even though there are people who do not read news about events in other countries on both social media platforms and local newspapers, it is clear that social media plays a bigger role in the spreading of news about events in other countries than local newspapers through the results. Thus, it affirms our hypothesis that the use of social media increases Singaporeans' knowledge of events happening in countries apart from Singapore faster than as compared to local newspapers.
Hence, we are able to conclude that social media is indeed more effective in helping Singaporeans become aware of events around the world as compared to local newspapers through our data collected and the statistics presented to us.