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“You can’t see this.”

Back to 20 years ago, you must have heard the warnings of your parents. At that time everything was slow, the fairy tale book was slow, the animation was slow, and the net was slow. In exchange for today’s children, TA may have had multiple digital avatars, and at a young age, they can switch between websites and apps.

Is the child nowadays happier than ever? What kind of appearance is the childhood with the electronic media? This issue of the whole media (ID: quanmeipai) focuses on the growth of children in the new media era, explores the confusion and worries of the digital generation, and also looks at the future of child protection.

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When childhood enters the digital age

The origin of childhood and “death”

“The concept of childhood is one of the great inventions of the Renaissance, perhaps the most human invention”, Neil Bozman, “The Escape of Childhood,” writes. In his view, “childhood” is a society created and constructed.Concept: From the perspective of media change, in the age of oral communication, children and adults share language, knowledge and hobbies until the printing language creates a cultural barrier between the two. The era of reading and writing is coming, and school education is emerging. There is a threshold in the adult world, so there is childhood.

In the process of change and evolution, the concept of “childhood” highlights the rationality-centered modernity that began in the Enlightenment, and gradually led to the consensus that children’s self and personality must be preserved through training, and People should understand that children’s development has its own rules, and children’s innocence, curiosity and vitality should not be killed.

With the advent of telegraphs and television, the electronic process of media has advanced by leaps and bounds. The carrier of information has undergone dramatic changes: the media environment with text as the main body has been occupied by images and sounds. People’s understanding of information no longer appeals to the linear logic and abstract ideas represented by words, but relies on direct, Representational, impactful audiovisual text.

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Under such an environment, the threshold for information dissemination disappeared, and the “secrets” of adults ceased to exist. Children were surrounded by media, infiltrated, changed, and accelerated to the path of “adult”. Bozeman’s worries also arise from this: Electronic media blurs the dividing line between childhood and adulthood, and childhood is rapidly disappearing.

Digital generation

In the current digital age, new media technologies are almost immersed in everyone’s daily lives, and children are no exception. From the children of books and TV children to the new media children of today, after the “00” and “10”, they have become well-deserved digital aborigines. When the children of the linguistic language are comfortable with the touch screen device, when the mobile phone replaces the story book, the ipad replaces the textbook. Instead of saying that childhood is dying, it is better to say that what we are facing today is a new type of childhood.

This is a childhood that grows with digital media, a childhood that is seamlessly connected online and offline, a colorful and dangerous childhood.

According to the New York Times report, the iPhone has become the most effective invention for comforting infants and young children in human history. UNICEF’s “The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in the Digital Age” points out that among Internet users worldwide, Children and adolescents under the age of 18 account for one third. Wavemaker’s White Paper on Chinese Children in the Digital Age, released in February this year, shows that the number of children aged 6-15 in China is as high as 160 million. They have become a highly digital generation: the average age at which computers are used is 7.8 years old. The average age at which I started using my smartphone was 7.3 years old, and most of them were exposed to a variety of smart devices, video games, and social media before the age of 9.

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▲Source: Wavemaker’s White Paper on Chinese Children in the Digital Age

So, are these children who have tried water in the online world early, really everything OK?

Please answer: Three thousand children in the digital question

was selected: “Who am I?”

When this child is still upset about not being able to register their own online account, they may not know that their lives are being watched by countless people.

All Media Party articles “When the child’s life details are accessed by parents po:Child privacy and forgotten rights are worth exploring According to Internet Security Company AVIn a study by G, 92% of children under two years of age already have their own digital identity. Many parents are keen to put their children’s daily po to the Internet (think of the sun-baked madmen around us), and many children feel angry and fearful about the behavior of parents or schools arbitrarily posting their information to the Internet.

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“Before these children learn to open their first email, parents create a unique digital identity for them. This information will follow the children into adulthood.” One of the Levine Law Schools at the University of Florida The report wrote.

This is actually a serious issue of “self-identity definition.” The subjectivity of each individual deserves to be respected, which is unstoppable and long for anyone, and once it involves children, it will be more complicated. As a guardian, parents will act as “agents” for children for a long time. They are the goalkeeper of children’s personal information, the earliest narrator of their life stories, and the most important role in the early days of children’s socialization.

Becoming a qualified parent is not easy – where are the dimensions of adult involvement in children’s lives? Interventional geometry? How much is the level of involvement? I am afraid that all need to be repeated. As Julie, the former provost of Stanford University, said in a TED speech, the current educational approach has entered “list-type parenting”: parents want to make sure they complete a series of keywords and KPIs – parents become more and more The more like a child’s “personal butler”, “secretary”, “broker”, it is less and less like a parent.

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Being red: “Where am I?”

The medium is a mirror of life. We all learn about self and society in the medium mirror. Just for many children, they haven’t learned how to get along with the technology, they’re pushed to the flash and are