6. Children are
discovering the world
without guidance of
their parent who are
less and less equipped
to follow them or assist
them in making sense
of the information that
bombard them.
Information technology
yna
7. Technology Reality
Children & teens
tend to know much
more than the
adults.
New language, new
frontier , new
culture – part of the
reality or landscape
of children/youth
8. Television is
affordable; goes
straight into people’s
homes; does not need
literacy .
No .1 source of
entertainment of
family.
Ave daily time viewing
TV in the Phil= 3:30
Intrusion of Mass Media
12. Considerable pressure on teens to
conform to a certain image and they
go to great lengths to create that image
Children who frequently watch television
commercials held stronger materialistic values
than dis peers who watched TV commercials
less often
Materialism
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13.
14. Health Effects of
Media
• Developmental concerns
• Obesity
• Prosaically effects
• Violence and aggression
• Sex
• Substance use
sam
15. There are several studies that
have document the possibility of
language delays among infants
exposed to excessive television or
videos.
Developmental concerns
sam
18. • Can learn antiviolence attitudes ,
tolerance empathy, respect for elders,
altruism
• Video games can be beneficial e.g
improving compliance with
chemotherapy: eye hand coordination
• Can be used as a tool to educate
• Stimulate adolescent connectedness
Prosaically effects
sam
19. Exposure to violent media ( movies,
violent videogames, violent internet
sites, TV ) predicted subsequent
increases in aggression in teens
Exposure to television violence in
childhood predicted increased
aggressive behavior in adulthood.
Violence and aggression
kevs
20. Watching sex on TV predicts and
may hasten adolescent sexual
initiation
Reducing the amount of sexual content in
entertainment programming, reducing
adolescent exposure to this content or increasing
references to and depictions of possible
consequences of sexual activity could
appreciably delay the initiation of sex in teens
Sex
kevs
21. Different uses of the cyber technology
• Meet old or long lost friends
• Meet new friends
• Easy communication access
• A site for discussion
• Research
• Money transfer
kevs
22. The dark side of the cyber world
• Phone to abuse
• Sexual aggression
• Sex exploitative or
commoditized use of sex
• Impact on brain development
• Health problems
• Impact on physical
development
kevs
24. Results
• Adolescents’ Risky online
Behaviors:
Posting personal information -
91%
Chatting with unknown
people-58%
Having many unknown people
in friends list- 46%
Opening X-rated web sites-
23%
Eyeball with people met
online -9%
rowda
25. Sexting
Is a term coined by the
media that generally
refers to youth writing
sexually explicit
massages, taking sexually
explicit photos of
themselves or other in
their peer group, and
transmitting those photo
or massages to theirs
peers.
rowda
26. Social danger with sexting is that
material can be very easily and
widely promulgated over which the
origination has no control
rowda
27. Cases of sexting are not rare
We are now seeing
cases of teens being
brought to Child
Protection Unit
because of videos
taken by cell phone
while they were
having sex with
their boyfriends.
rowda
28. “Life events unfold over the course of
time. Who children spend time with be it
parents, peers , teachers, clergy media
characters and the context and content of
that time spent provide important
parameters of the health and welfare of
children”
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