Adolescent use of new media and Internet technologies. Debating risks and opportunities in the digital age.

Autor/in	Ingram, Gordon P. D.
Titel	Adolescent use of new media and Internet technologies. Debating risks and opportunities in the digital age.
Quelle	New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (2023), vi, 149 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-367-89482-5; 978-1-032-43851-1
Schlagwörter	Entwicklungspsychologie; Jugendpsychologie; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Rollenspiel; Soziale Beziehung; Jugend; Jugendsoziologie; Digitale Medien; Medien; Medienethik; Mediennutzung; Medienpsychologie; Mediensoziologie; Medienwirkung; Jugendschutz; Mobbing; Soziale Software; Suchtgefährdung; Cyberspace; Jugendgefährdung; Diskussion; Risiko; Jugendlicher
Abstract	This book engages with contemporary, and often polarizing, debates surrounding the risks of adolescent use of digital media and internet technologies. By drawing on multiple research studies, the text synthesizes current understandings of the impacts of social network use, online gaming, pornography, and phenomena, including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and internet addiction, to develop recommendations for the effective identification of at-risk youth, as well as strategies for informed communication about online risks and opportunities. It shows how media discussion of risks to children and teenagers from new technology is highly emotive and often exaggerated, rooted in the "moral panic" surrounding new cultural practices that young people engage in, but which adults do not understand. Online risks are thus conceptualized as centering on three areas, specific to adolescence, which have undergone radical changes due to new internet technology. These include young people's identity, the types of content that are accessed, and social relationships. The author shows how these matters stem from the potential of new technology to establish new interpersonal connections, emphasizing how it brings opportunities, as much as risks. As such, he provides a uniquely balanced discussion of potential dangers, while also emphasizing the opportunities for social, academic, and personal growth which new technologies afford young people. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2024/1