Impact of the Internet and Media for Modern Youth

INTERNET ON forward-looking YOUTH The content of the current media floriculture is a lot blind to a new-fangled persons cultural,economic and educational background. The concept of a media culture has evolvedowing to the increased volume, variety and importance of negociate signs and messagesand the interplay of interlaced meanings. In the world of young tribe, themedia are saturated by favorite culture and penetrate politics, the economy, leisuretime and education. At present, the b both-shaped media culture is a pedagogic force that hasthe potential to exceed the achievements of institutionalized forms of education.AsHenry Giroux puts itWith the rise of new media technologies and the orbicular reach of thehighly concentrated culture industries, the scope and impact of theeducational force of culture in shaping and refiguring all aspects ofdaily life appear unprecedented. Yet the current debates have generallyignored the powerful pedagogical influence of embark onular cul ture,along with the implications it has for shaping curricula, questioningnotions of high-status knowledge, and redefining the relationsarticulatio coxaebetween the culture of schooling and the cultures of everyday life. 6The concept of media culture encompasses not obviously symbolic gangsof immaterial signs or capricious currents of old and new meanings, but an entire wayof life7 in which images, signs, texts and early(a) audio-visual representations are connectedwith the real fabric of material realities, symbols and artificialities. 8Media culture is pervasive its messages are an important part of the everydaylives of young the great unwashed, and their daily activities are structured around media use.Thestories and images in the media become important tools for identity construction. Apop starprovides a modelfor clothing and some other style choices, and language usedbya cartoon suit becomes a key factor in the street credibility of young people. Under the present circumsta nces, thither are few places left in the world where onemight escape the messages and meanings embedded in the televised media culture.In a mediated culture, it can be difficult for young people to discern whose representationsare closest to the truth, which representations to believe, and whichimages matter. This is partly because the emergence of digitalized parley and the commoditization of culture have significantly altered the conditions under whichlife and culture are experienced. Many are take over attached to the romantic image oforganic communities in which people converse with one another face to face and livein a close-knit local environment.Digital communication is gradually undermining thistraditional approachMost of the ways in which we fall in meanings, most of our communicationsto other people, are not directly human and expressive, butinteractions in one way or another worked through commodities andcommodity relations TV, radio, film, magazines, music, commercia ldance, style, fashion, commercial leisure venues. These are majorrealignments. 9In the world of young people, the media culture may be characterized primarilyin terms of three distinct considerations. First, it is produced and reproduced bydiverse ICT sources.It is therefore imperative to replace the teaching of knowledgeand skills primal to agrarian and industrial societies with education in digital literacy. A similar point is made by Douglas Kellner, who contends that in a media culture it isimportant to learn multiple ways of interacting with social reality. 10 Children and youngpeople must be provided with opportunities to acquire skills in multiple literacies toenable them to develop their identities, social relationships and communities, whethermaterial, virtual, or a combination of the two.Second, the media culture of youth extends beyond signs and symbols, manifestingitself in young peoples physical appearance and movements. The media cultureinfluence is visible in how y outh present themselves to the world through meansmade available by prevailing fashions the body is a sign that can be used effectivelyto produce a cultural identity. Furthermore, various kinds of media-transmitted skillsand knowledge are stored and translated into movements of the body. This is evidentin a number of youth subcultures involving certain popular sports, games andmusic/dances such as street basketball, skateboarding and hip hop.The body is highly susceptible to several(predicate) contextual forms of control. Whilethey are in school, pupils movements are regulated by certain control mechanismsand cognitive knowledge. In the streets, youth clubs and private spaces, however, their bodies function accordingto a different logic. Informal knowledge absorbed throughthe media culture requires some conscious memorizing but also involves physicallearning, quite very much commercialized. 11Third, in the experience of young people, media culture represents a sourceof pleasure an d relative autonomy compared with home or school.As P. Willis statesInformal cultural practices are undertaken because of the pleasuresand satisfactions they bring, including a fuller and more roundedsense of the self, of really being yourself within your hold knowablecultural world. This entails finding better fits than the institutionally orideologically offered ones, between the collective and cultural sensesthe way it walks, talks, moves, dances, expresses, displaysand its demonstrable conditions of followence finding a way of beingin the world with style at school, at work, in the street. 12Experts on young people have long appreciated the complexity of the conceptof youth, especially when examined from a global perspective. The top hat summation isperhaps that the concept of youth today is historically and contextually conditionedin other words, it is relative as well as socially and culturally constructed. 13 In the presentmedia culture, the age at which puerility is perc eived to end is declining, and theperiod ofyouth seems to beextending upward.It is useful, however, to recall that the majority of young people in the worlddo not live according to the Western conceptions of youth. For them, childhood andadolescence in the Western sense exist only indirectly through media presentations. The same media culture influences seem to be in effect remote the Western world,but their consequences arelikely to be somewhat different owing mainly to variationsin definitions of childhood and youth and to the different authority relationshipsprevailing in individual cultures.Children and young people are often seen as innocent victims of the pervasive andpowerful media. In the extreme view, the breakdown of the nuclear family, teenagepregnancy, venereal disease, paedophilia, childtrafficking and child prostitutionspreading through the Internet, drug use, juvenile crime, the degeneration of manners,suicide and religious cults are all seen as problems exacerbated or even inflicted upon