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Media Effects on Children’s Social and Moral Development: A Theological Moral Study in Africa
Author(s)
Jacob Nwannabuike Anioke
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2017.03.001
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Catholic Institute of West Africa, Rivers State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
In this 21st century, whether we like it or not, it is very clear that the Internet, social media, and all ad of the related technology have come to stay. This new technological discovery has brought great and wonderful benefits to our family’s lives and relationships. However as it is always the case with any new innovations, it has its own negative side. This paper aims at investigating what actually social media is and how it translates to children, especially African children, as it relates to family and social living. Actually Internet provide benefits in areas such as cognitive and social development, it also presents risks together with opportunities for children’s growth and development. It is common today to see children spending great quality of their time using other social websites. It is also evidenced that Internet provide benefits in the area of emotional and intellectual development and at the same time present risk as well as opportunities to children’s development in functional and societal challenges. Therefore social media gives the children of the present age the opportunity to enter into global entertainment and communication. As a result of this development, there is now Internet addiction of children. Hence, there is serious need for parents to be aware of the nature of social media sites, their children are using. This is because not all of them are healthy environments for children. Experts such as childhood educators and psychologist even Paediatricians are equipped and so are better hands to assist parents not only to know and understand these websites but to encourage proper use and make them to monitor for potential problems such as cyber-bullying, facebook depression, exposure to inappropriate content and sexting. This paper proffers some recommendation that certainly will assist parents to bring up their children up to be vibrant adult even in this technological era.
KEYWORDS
media effects, Internet, children, social and moral development, Africa
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