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This study focused on interactive media as a socialization agent. The general study objective was to establish influence of WhatsApp mobile application on adolescents, while specific study objectives were; to establish the level of effectiveness of parents/guardians in monitoring adolescents WhatsApp use, assess motivations behind adolescents WhatsApp preference and establish how adolescents access WhatsApp mobile application. Qualitative research approach was used. Data was collected through; semi-structured interviews, participant observation, informal conversations, and focus group discussions. Convenient sampling was used to ease accessibility of target audience. Thematic analysis as qualitative data analysis strategy was used. Data was presented in form of narratives. It was established that parents do not monitor adolescents as they use WhatsApp application, reasons such as parents not being technological savvy, their negative attitude towards learning communication technologies and too much trust on adolescents contributed to lack of monitoring adolescents interactions on WhatsApp. WhatsApp influences were; addiction which resulted in irregular sleeping patterns among adolescents and interference on their studies. Erosion of family values and anti-social behaviour among adolescents were also noted as effect of WhatsApp addiction. The study established that, adolescents’ preferences to use the application were; popularity of WhatsApp hence viewed as trendy and fashionable.

Participatory design is a method that involves stakeholders in each design process, from the beginning to the end of the process. This method focuses on the opinions expressed by the participants. This method refers to Scandinavian method of participatory design. This paper presents how to build an animated comic website that fits the needs of end user. The main participants are the 11th grade students of SMAN 3 Lamongan in East Java, Indonesia, and supported by the history teacher and an IT expert.

This article argues for the adoption of an immersive-participatory method when analysing interactive media. It builds upon and extends existing theorisations of immersion and applies them to the development of new methods of analysis. This paper theorises immersion during gameplay as an affective, embodied state, which is both active and passive and achieved via both visual and imaginative engagement with the game world and haptic communication with the player character. This article’s argument is fourfold: firstly, it situates and negotiates the tensions surrounding the major debates, discussions and analyses in the study of immersion, both within gaming and in wider contexts; secondly, it argues for the inclusion of a participatory immersive method to be undertaken by the researcher when analysing media (especially interactive media such as video games); thirdly, it outlines the ways in which this method could be implemented by researchers, and finally, it draws on examples from my own research journal and discusses the possibility of a moral habitus which allows the player to engage in violent gameplay without experiencing the moral dissonance that can disrupt immersive states. Ultimately, this article aims to render the position of the researcher visible in order that we might gain critical purchase on the immersive praxis of gaming and the ethical/political responses of the player. In so doing, it is hoped that this article will aid theoretical and methodological innovation in this field and provoke discussion in a wider media studies context.

Learning English is the most difficult to learn by students, especially in learning of listening aspect. This research aims to investigate the process of listening activity in the classroom using mobile phone as interactive media in extensive listening and how the students’ responds of learning listening using mobile phone as an interactive media in extensive listening. Methodology of this research is descriptive qualitative. The subject of this research is Private Senior High School Muhammadiyah Karawang with 30 students as the sample of this research. The data analysis of this research uses the result of observation, interview, and documentation. Observation is used to know the learning process in classroom. Interview is used to know the students’ respond in learning process. While documentation is used to strengthen the data. The result of observation class shows that the process of teaching and learning listening as follows: (1) the teacher begins learning within 10 minutes, (2) the main activity using mobile phone in learning listening within 25 minutes, and (2) the final activity: the teacher gives a test to measure the students’ ability in listening comprehension. Meanwhile, the result of interview with the students shows that students mentioned convenience and interesting using mobile phone (37%) and accessed in anywhere and anytime (30%), easiness (17%), authenticity (10%), and usefulness and fun (7%) to use their mobile phone in English listening.

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