Uloga medija u procesu socijalizacije djece i adolescenata

Abstract

Contemporary discourse of global information exchange as well as the media saturated cultural, social and economic spheres tend to influence the psychological and social development of children and adolescents. Cognitive and social processes, as well as the linguistic development, are marked by the media’s influence, which in turn creates a developmental framework of media socialization, having some positive effects on the children’s maturation, but also reflecting certain antisocial behaviors. The development of multimedia within the virtual environment brings about some new patterns of behavior to modern generations of “digital natives”. In addition, individual factors such as age and gender, along with some social factors such as peer relationships, characterize the media socialization of children. Furthermore, modern multimedia communication has increased the flow and availability of information, which raises questions about the dual role of the media in the socialization process of young people, i.e. it raises questions of transparency, ethics, adequacy of media content, as well as the emergence of antisocial behaviors that are implicitly or explicitly related to the media context.