INFLUENŢA MEDIA ȘI A COMPUTERULUI ASUPRA SECURITĂŢII PSIHICE A COPIILOR
THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIA AND OF COMPUTER ON THE PSYCOLOGICAL SECURITY OF CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: In today’s modern world we have begun to analyze and combat the security threats that disrupt our lives, but over the years we have only looked at the larger threats that have affected us. Threats such as terrorism, ecological disasters have kept the first pages of every article and newspaper. Because of this massive exposure we tend not to see the threats that are among us and which we use every day as simple household items. The biggest threat is not pointed at adults but to those who are the most vulnerable, children, who through massive exposure to television, computer and video games have started to live in a parallel world, actually the world they experience through this technological means. The problem of the existence of this technological means in the world can’t have a solution if we don’t stop using them the way we do. As we all know to live a modern life we need them and further more it is not their existence that is dangerous, but the way we use them and for how long. We may consider that these ideas are wrong because a child doesn’t really spend that much time in front of the television, but don’t forget that we watch all of this through the eyes of adults and not through the psyche of a child. Modern advertising can provoke an emotional harm to them. Their mind is not ready to withstand the attacks of those who are behind the advertisement industry. Let us not forget how easily children in the US have taken their parents firearms and killed colleagues, just because they had seen it on television or in a video game, and of course the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, states in his manifesto that before the attacks in Utoya Island he trained on the internet, playing violent video games. If we don’t try to control these risks we are submitting children to, then their psychological security won’t be the same and upon reaching adulthood we will have a lot of people with anxiety and other such problems.

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