The modern subject is an active participant in his socialization; he engages with the media from an early age, uses them on purpose, and allows them to shape his daily life, analyzing and re-evaluating the value and norm structure of his social environment, his personality, and his life concepts along the way. The actions and attitudes of the adults whom young people look up to and admire are often the basis for the young people's actions and attitudes. Influence can have both positive and negative results.
Personality emerges and develops in response to and in concert with the socially mediated social and material environment during socialization. Mainly, it is about how we become socially competent subjects as individuals. Because children are now exposed to media at age one, we can add the media to the list of classic socialization examples, along with parents, schools, and peer groups. Researchers that study young people often refer to how children and adolescents develop their sense of identity and autonomy through their media usage as "self-socialization."
Today, children and youth prioritize the Internet and television over newspapers, books, and radio. Children use media for teens and adults and children's laptops and phones. Television has been the most popular media for six-to-13-year-olds for decades. Family TV time can bring the kids closer. Television aids family traditions like bedtime and distracts youngsters during medical treatment. B. and rewards or punishes education. 6 to 13-year-olds are second most likely to use the computer to play instructional games and then to use the Internet for schoolwork and social media as they age. A third of 6 to 13-year-olds browse the Internet alone.
Thus, they can easily reach the wrong sites or people. A third of children in the 2008 KIM research have chatted. However, parents are crucial to media consumption in children. Players and interlocutors set rules. Parents show their media views, buy or ban devices and content, and influence their children's media use. Peer groups typically impact youth media use to distance themselves from their parents and deal with crises. In childhood, the focus is on sharing with the family.
People's lives are enriched in numerous ways thanks to the media they consume, and those media frequently serve more than one purpose. Regarding these roles, Vollbrecht divides them into three categories. He calls these "situational functions," which include learning, having fun, avoiding boredom, controlling emotions, and getting away from it all. These "social functions" are crucial from a networking point of view: family and friend discussions might be sparked, or group identities can be formed due to exposure to the media.
Television's influence is great since it teaches viewers how to look and act to be accepted by their peers. There are heroes and villains shown. On the other hand, the Internet allows for the dissemination of information (keyword Google) and the consumption of a wide variety of content types, such as Facebook and online blogs, which Daniel Süss likens to the increasingly rare practice of keeping a personal diary. The Church is an illustrative case study of right and wrong in different socialization contexts. In contrast, the media's output could be clearer, more consistent, and more organized.
Although the media provides many options, there are no "standards that are used as signposts" to guide the search for one's true identity within them. Young people might "communicatively legitimize partial identities" by designing interactive ways and redesigning them in online media environments. They can rehearse, experiment with, and even live out their partial identities in these spaces. Therefore, the Internet provides a wealth of opportunities for identity development, but it does not do so by providing metrics by which the success of identity work may be evaluated.
Thus, the media's role in constructing identities can backfire or fall short. Empirical studies have also revealed the risk potential of media for socialization. 65 Young people are subjected to intense consumer pressure to acquire the latest gadgets to fit in with their peers. The new mobile phone culture, however, demonstrates to what extent not only the use but simply the possession of the correct medium signifies group and status connection. Because of this, young people's mobile phones have become not merely a symbol of social standing but, in some circles, an essential membership requirement.
It is conceivable for advertising to have a beneficial effect on children's behavior. For instance, 10% of the advertising budgets of some breweries are set aside for campaigns warning of the dangers of driving after consuming alcohol. Some medical professionals doubt the health benefits of moderate milk consumption, but advertisements in newspapers and on television have helped increase milk consumption. The impact of commercials on kids varies across the spectrum of their maturation.
Small children do not have the cognitive capacity to recognize an advertisement for what it is. Commercials have the power to persuade consumers that they feel cheated if they cannot purchase a product they have seen advertised. Most three- and four-year-olds cannot tell the difference between a program designed to entertain and one intended to sell. Numerous studies have shown that young children under eight lack the cognitive maturity to differentiate between ads and other forms of television programming.
Our current society is evolving at a dizzying rate. Cooperation with other individuals is the most important factor. The individual undergoes continuous socialization, as demonstrated by the phenomenon of socialization. The more advanced, free, and democratic a society is, the better its citizens can interact with one another. To effect social change, one must first inspire confidence and faith in one's views by persuading others of their validity. The media, among many other agents, play this kind of role. If they are truly democratic and committed to freedom, they will seek to accurately reflect the views and experiences of the people they serve. Help the next generation get a leg up on the next world.