CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter presents and review the common related literature and studies that is
about THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF WATTPAD TO RANDOM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF
CAMARINES SCIENCE ORIENTED HIGH SCHOOL INC. AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.

According to Mhariemar Jaguit, Jee-Ar Alamo (2015) ‘Wattpad is a place to discover and
share stories: a social platform that connects people through words. It is a community that
spans borders, interests, and languages. With Wattpad, anyone can read or write on any device
such as phones, tablet, or computer. This online entertainment is getting stronger and wider
most of the viewer are teens commonly students.’ Wattpad is a good application for those
teenagers who aim to enhance their writing, reading, comprehension, and creative skills. But
this application could also be a bad application for those teens who over uses it. Wattpad could
either be a good or bad application depends on how a user sees it or uses it.

According to Michael(2016), if you don’t know what Wattpad is, it’s a system that
allows virtually anyone to publish almost any genre of work for free. Although Wattpad doesn’t
pay its authors like a publishing house does, there are still a wide range of benefits for using it as
a new writer. In fact, it’s where I am going to publish my first novel as soon as it’s done. Why go
through the trouble if I’m not getting paid? Because of what it can offer.

According to Renata(2017)et. al. Juan Luis Suárez, Wattpad doesn’t exactly meet the
criteria of traditional literature. It is accessed on mobile phones; its community has almost
global dimensions; it operates according to the characteristics of a social network; it represents
the concepts of transmedia, intermediality and convergence, which Henry Jenkins and others
have theorized about; it has developed a multichannel network through Wattpad Studios and it
channels the stories which show most potential towards the traditional publishing industry,
cinema and TV, respectively. However, all that lies behind all of this is the human desire to tell
and read stories. I would say that Wattpad is not the future of literature, even though it is a step
in the right direction. That is where, in the future, research into Modern Languages in the digital
era should flow in my view. Simply because it is one of the spaces where stories, writers and
readers coincide. The potential offered by a platform like Wattpad for literary research is
immense. The number of stories published, the vast geographic coverage – quite literally global
– of its readers and writers, the variety of languages used and the evolutionary dynamics of
themes, genres and users are some of the many lines which could be harnessed in the
intersection between Modern Languages, digital culture and data analytics, But not everything
is positive. Wattpad is also a case study of the problems which researchers come up against in
the digital space, and in particular, of the inversely proportional relationship between the value
of data (I’m referring to its academic, rather than its economic, value).

THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF

WATTPAD TO RANDOM HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS OF
CAMARINES SCIENCE ORIENTED
HIGH SCHOOL INC. AND HOW TO
PREVENT IT.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
 Gaughram Theory
Hazal Zirki Theory
●states that teenagers are
●states that teenagers are
immesed on reading
being attracted to wattpad
wattpad books because it is
because they are perceptive
free. You can read and write
to new ideas.
stories in their.

GGGGabinet Theory

●states that it exposed students on too much

reading because it hasFigure
different
1.1 genres of literature
where teenagers specifically students are free to
choose what they wat to read.

DISCUSSION OF FIGURE 1.1

According to David gaughran theory, all stories on wattpad are free. Readers don’t have
to pay to join the site (or download the app), or to read any of those 3 million stories in
wattpad. But they don't just read too, they also write there. These are the reasons they stated
on why teenagers are addicted in reading wattpad books.

Another article stated that wattpad clicked specially on young teens because they are at
such an age where they are more perceptive to new ideas and new concepts, and that’s why it
started taking off. This is the hazal zirki theory.

According to an article about wattpad, wattpad is a website full of stories with different
genres created for different kinds of people with different minds. It is easily accessible, that is
why many students read or use wattpad. Because it is accessible and has a wide array of genres
to choose from, students are addicted in reading them even during class hours that may give
negative effects on their studies. This is called the ggggabinete theory.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
 INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

Make a survey
questionnaire about
THE ADVERSE
EFFECTS OF List down all the
WATTPAD TO HIGH gathered data coming
SCHOOL STUDENTS Conduct a face to face
from the
interview
OF CAMARINES respondents/
SCIENCE ORIENTED participants.
HIGH SCHOOL AND
HOW TO PREVENT
IT

Figure 1.2

DISCUSSION OF FIGURE 1.2

In the input, it is a survey questionnaire that aims to know other people's opinion
about this topic. Making a survey questionnaires gives the idea of what are the respondents'
point of view and give follow up questions. For the output, the researchers conduct a face to
face interview using the questionnaires prepared and in the process, it is the collection of the
responsents responses in order to stay track of the progress of the data gathering. There will be
follow-up questions if needed.