Socialization in the Digital Present
Informalization and Contextualization
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-941Keywords:
new technologies, youth, socialization, informalization, contextualizationAbstract
In this paper we formulate the thesis that the present generation of young people is socialized mainly through the use of technology, but not only by it. Nowadays, too, growth takes place in the framework of the family, the contemporary pairs, as well as in formal and informal environments. The condition of boy or young, in addition, is still influenced by the social environment. This confronts boys and youngsters with new worlds of experience that constitute them in a new generation. The new with reference to the past is that boys and teenagers grow in a (tele)communicative way, and connected to the network, and through this activity they can postpone the learning of other social competences. The dissolution of clear links -i.e. the informalization of relations- is correlated with the demand of developing meaningful usage modes, through ways of use that require self initiative and determination. i.e. through an individual contextualization.
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