Abstract

GABELAS BARROSO, José Antonio. Screens and the youth in the augury of the new millennium. ACIMED [online]. 2011, vol.22, n.1, pp. 79-90. ISSN 1024-9435.

The youths and screens (television, Internet, video console, mobile devices) maintain an intensive and close coexistence. Whereas the parents, professors and many specialist consider that relationships that youth show in face of screens are basically negative, the own youth think quite the contrary. Screen phenomenology has leads to the construction of some scenarios of relation and coexistence and has produced a new leisure time very near of the frontiers of eyewitness and the virtual one. The way of to know, think, feel and relate of the youth, questioning the social and teaching function of socio-health and educational agents. We consider that it is urgent the design of audiovisual and multimedia literacy taking into account the criterion of the own youth. These growth scenarios are not free from conflicts, considered as the chance for growth. Present paper is from as brief diagnosis of the situation and to propose intervention strategies.

Keywords : Leisure sociology; multi-screen consumption; audiovisual literacy and multimedia; potential.

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