The Importance Of The Media Today

The importance of the media today

Although the role of family and school is decisive in the transmission of values. The truth is that the various media and new technologies today occupy such a prominent place in the life of our children that we cannot overlook them. No one ignores the powerful attraction and the ability to seduction that the average have over the youngest in a culture as massive and globalized as ours. For their ability to form and form, motivate and demotivate, infect and captivate youth, they are an educational factor and is an educator of 1st magnitude. Its influence is also reinforced because it plays with the advantage of being related to recreational, leisure and entertainment aspects, to which an element of admiration for a model is often added.

 No one escapes the enormous drag that famous singers, actors, athletes, etc., to model opinion and influence adolescents’ decisions. I want to sing like X, or I would like to be a footballer like Z, etc. It depends greatly on us. That the media and new technologies are complementary to our Christian education or that conflict with it. Some aspects likely to interfere with the education of our young people and that, therefore all educators should take into account are. 

First, audiovisual media constitute in themselves technological and didactic resources of immense possibilities. When its contents stimulate the development of the most positive human values, their educational contribution can be very effective.

Second, the media are able to marry fashions and customs, while massifying the individual to the detriment of his individuality. 

Thirdly, as a recreational media audiovisual media and new technologies have no rival. The first great danger that threatens the majority of young consumers of video game television programs, especially the growing range of services via the Internet etc, is excessive consumption of time in passive activities and subtract rest, social activity and physical exercise. 

Fourth. Other hazards come from the financial interests of the promoters of these products. 

That to stimulate the audience and increase their clientele, they multiply the creation of programs and games that foster consumerism, favor isolation, stimulate violence, exalt eroticism or incite young people to surface life styles. 

Fifth these programs result in an early excite. 

Sixth among the media and new technologies that fascinate and seduce our children. Those who present greater potential dangers are an endless list of games and those that concern the world of telecommunication and internet, with chatting services, web pages, etc., which captivate young people by nature, curious, unsuspecting and reckless, withattractiveness of the unknown. Forbidden. Being able to take them to high -risk situations. 

All this the current media and new technologies could even be considered as a drug for thousands of young people who cannot live without them. In fact, the electronic drug qualifier was coined and applied to television by UNESCO, the United Nations Agency a few decades ago. Given its universal, we will take the case of television and internet and its effects. The social influence of television and internet is such that in fact it is difficult for a home without a television receiver today and, in some cases, with several of them, and even one in each room. Something is happening, many societies with the new computer and cybernetic media. 

These young people are hostages of the screen, it is no longer known who drives who.