Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This study intended to investigate the impact of photo manipulation which have become
popular among young people on credibility of Facebook messages. We had identified the gap
in the previous studies which had focused much on the credibility of texts rather than images
on the Facebook site. After thorough literature review we identified that there were no
previous research done connecting photo manipulation and credibility of those messages
when they are uploaded on Facebook in the process of communication.
We therefore indulged in this study to establish the impacts of image manipulation on
credibility of Facebook messages. In the study, we used 4th year journalism class students as
our respondents in Maasai Mara University Main Campus. We had chosen these students to
be our respondents since we assumed that they were much aware of image editing and much
common Facebook messages consumers and also disseminators.
This study used survey as research method and used questionnaires as data collection
instruments. The respondents were targeted to answer few questions regarding how they
perceived Facebook messages, how often they used Facebook per week, whether they ever
did photo manipulation before posting on Facebook and to which common tools they used to
do photo manipulation.
In this study we assumed all our respondents gave honest information as the study had
required. We also assumed our respondents were aware of Facebook communication and
about image manipulation
