YOUNG PEOPLE WITH NEW MEDIA

We live today in an ever-increasingly fast changing and a superior interconnected world. It is a global society of communicative interactions and responses that stimulates profound cultural transformations and realignments. It is a society epitomised by the advent of globalisation paralleled by the arrival of superb cutting-edge technologies. In essence, the changing global media landscape and the arrival of a powerful global media-driven culture are shaping the socialization processes, values, and beliefs of young people.

At the same time it is influencing young people’s decisions, in areas such as educational choice, employment, leisure, and life in general. Global media and technology have revolutionized the way young people are accessing information and entertainment. It has experienced a great deal of technological expansion during the last century, which in turn has had an immense impact on the behaviour of young people.