Fields of Impact of Social Media on Youth – Methodological Implications
Acta Technologica Dubnicae. 2015;5(2):80-86 DOI 10.1515/atd-2015-0066
Journal Title: Acta Technologica Dubnicae
ISSN: 1339-4363 (Online)
Publisher: Sciendo
Society/Institution: Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia
LCC Subject Category: Education: Special aspects of education
Country of publisher: Slovakia
Language of fulltext: English
Full-text formats available: PDF
AUTHORS
Juszczyk Stanisław
(University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland)
EDITORIAL INFORMATION
Time From Submission to Publication: 20 weeks
Abstract | Full Text
Using social media Web sites is among the most common activities of today’s children and adolescents. Such sites offer today’s youth a portal for entertainment and communication, and have grown exponentially in recent years. Parents and teachers become aware of the nature of social media sites, thus they do not know that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. This field is important because pedagogists, psychologists and pediatrics need to understand how youth lives in a new, massive, and complex virtual universe, even as they carry on their lives in the real world. In the article I have presented a discussion of a few empirical research carried out by different authors to show various aspects of child and adolescent development in this virtual universe and to present the methodological implications of such types of studies.