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THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT ON CHILDREN
THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT ON CHILDREN

Author(s): Marin Tudor
Subject(s): Media studies
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Mass media; multimedia; mass communication; technologically mediated communication; receiver; sender; message; code

Summary/Abstract: In today’s world, where all the challenges, more or less real, have become regional, and later worldwide, the influence of the modern communication environment on children’s development is overwhelming, and, in that context, necessity arises for a new type of responsibility, namely communicational responsibility. Even if responsibility as a moral value depends on our actions, children’s education shouldn’t leave out the correspondence between doing by speaking/communicating (in education, the context for this is provided by communication psycho-pedagogy). Watching TV for hours, playing computer games around the clock, accessing Internet programs for a long span of time have become more than mere trends, and now are a dangerous, chronic diseases, especially for children. It is possible for that type of activity to lead to attention disorders, to the weakening of mental capacities, of the power of judgment and of motivation, to the outbreak of a syndrome which will affect the development of children and youngster, from a physical, cognitive and affective point of view...

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 93-110
  • Page Count: 18
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