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and digital media: some reflections on adolescents of
Vincenzo Di Leo The means of mass communication in the "globalized" society, are numerous and increasingly "complex" function and potential sometimes known only in part by the end user.
The ability to act, using the means, and inter-act, by taking actions with and / or others, supported by the latest equipment, led to a transformation of the entire system, including media consumption.
phones, for example, represent a synthesis of technology and content that we could define the reach of all. " In addition to telephone, in fact, allow us to capture, through moving or still images, fragments of our daily lives that, if you wish, you can share with others via MMS or content to be placed on the network.
A question always open whenever we talk of the media is to ask if they are good or bad. The drastic responses, recalling Eco us back an apocalyptic perspective vs. an integrated one. Before you dismiss the question with an answer, which most often is given only by considering some aspects of the problem: the effects, real or assumed, of the medium on the individual, should, do the reflections, perhaps supported by research data, the media.
The subjects in the developing world, children and adolescents, "TV and new media seem to unlock the world, opening a space exploration at a distance seemingly charming and inviting and protected from unforeseen risks." Among the means, the most widespread TV, "an agency may appear as an alternative to traditional institutions of socialization not for the messages it conveys but by the manner in which the experiences take place in-training. It 's a light socialization "(Martelli, 1996).
The media, of which the TV is the most emblematic provide a number of contributions that support the socialization process of making immediate and lighter or less demanding than the load required experience on the field.
Over the past two decades there have been many definitions, some of which are particularly evocative, developed by social scientists from different backgrounds, to clarify, the TV: features, functions, vices and virtues. Among these I recall a few:
- "Efficient ruler "and" Baby Sitter-mail "(Ferrarotti, 1992).
- "stepparent" able to teach a bit 'of everything for everyone that breaks down the boundaries between the generations (Pellai, 1999).
- "Park of the Child" (Pellai, 1999).
-agent of socialization "powerful" and global anyone and learn something everywhere you look (Lemish, 2007). According to the latest report
IARD, 94.1% of young people (15-34 years) consume TV (Buzzi, Cavalli, De Lillo, 2007). Other research (Pellai, 1999) reported that half of girls and young Italian, 10 years, has a TV in their room and that the teenager today consumes a lot of TV yesterday that he was a child I ate as much. These data support
just some thoughts that the astute reader, will seem a rhetorical exercise. Who authorizes the child to watch TV? Who puts the device in his room? It 's so surprising that the TV is seen by almost all the Italian guys from knowing that their children were given? The answer, quite obvious, they close the question open but the other, very interesting from a psychosocial point of view: there are changes, especially identity, that the enjoyment and use of media, particularly new media, result? What, in particular see the younger adolescents, are with the media? The
SELF hub organizer of the personality characteristic of inner-spatial and immaterial, it is now, with the spread of a Mediated Communication that more and more "distributed" in various places and in different identities for this reason it has taken on the characteristics of dialogical self.
The dialogical self can be understood as a multi-axis position, relatively autonomous in their activities (school, family, internet, etc..), Making it "floating" and then moving between different locations, sometimes opposed to the dialogic relationship that develops between the inner dimension size vs exterior.
Birth, development, deployment and evolution of the mass media have led to a reversal of interpersonal relationships. Today you can not, and should not be (sorry to be anachronistic!), Regardless of the impact and potential of the media (old and new).
research, particularly sensitive and attentive ears to record and change, while in the past was interested in "what media do to people" in more recent times he is interested in "what people do with media" (Manuti et al., 2005).
E 'indisputable that the media allow, to all individuals, to communicate independently of the physical environment and the contemporary. In other words to communicate is no longer indispensable to the report it face to face location in the same place and at the same time.
The Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), for example, always breaks down, both in its declination in synchronous and asynchronous one, the constraint of space.
New media, in particular, "meaning machines" that distribute new ideas, models, ways of thinking, quickly and in a variety of individuals in a limited time. For this reason, the identity in contemporary society "digital-mediated" is the result, if not a Hegelian synthesis, a process of negotiation between self / other. The Other, in fact, this type of interaction, it assumes the character of its own expectations and then integrates the self, becoming a member.
The network leads to (re) thinking about a new way for the construction of identity through the sharing and narrative supports a number of steps-experience (sharing / fluctuations / transgressions / etc.). I blog, a form of CMC, for example, support the development of the dialogical self. The different content (text, music, photos, etc..) Are functional to the narrative of the self and represent the temporal evolution (Ligorio & Hermans, 2005).
The boundaries of the traditional dichotomies that underlie the dual Staff size vs Social, Public / Private or We / Others have changed considerably. A production staff, whether it's a reflection, a photo or any composition, expression of subjectivity, however, is located on the network with split-ergo becomes public information being shared with the community. The meaning of categories, which refer to concepts such as identity vs. We the Others is more than ever, the composite. And 'now the result of continuous negotiation between the "talking" or among those who, for example, actively attend the Internet. The singular and plural, by virtue of the medium, dividing lines are increasingly blurred.
All this leads to some considerations. The identity of adolescents in contemporary society, is not only to understand, since it is subject to evolving and being, by definition, exposed to frequent changes, but also to define and explore, taking into account the many influences from different sources, some of which have entered our lives only in recent years. To do this it is essential to a critical frequency "Digital Agora," by adults, supported by curiosity but not a priori harmful and therefore turned to "destroy" that which is unexplained or difficult to understand. It 'also in the virtual, in fact, that the meetings and comparisons, sometimes clashes between the interlocutors are made and consumed in the eyes of many producing consequences that, to be addressed, requiring understanding.
to attend the network, however, it is essential to bridge the gap between natives and digital immigrants. The castaways digital, for this discovery, they have no hope. Precisely for this reason it is good that you do not receive privileged by holding, in the name of the life experience "into reality," the only ones capable of judging convinced that only the interactions are face to face "the only form of life."
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