The Meaning of Digital Media Content for Teenagers and the Role of Parents Assistance

Keywords

Digital Media, Content, Teenagers, Role of Parents Assistance

Abstract

The development of technology has pushed the life of teenagers to merge into the world of social media and digital. Teenagers’ high sense of curiosity has become a source of concern for their parents to grant them digital access. The easiness in accessing information through digital medias has lured teenagers into over communicated trap where the overflowing of information is difficult to digest thush, making the information to be spread freely without prior filtering. In this case, literacy has become a crucial thing to do by teenagers to not to get trapped and lost with an information. The role of parents as guiding partner is no less important as well. The result of this research shows that teenagers consume information through gadget every single day. Parental guidance in using gadget was done due to their concern for negative contents, even though some parents put absolute trust towards their children in using gadget, hence deeming guidance as unnecessary

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hedi Pudjo
AU  - Sri Budi Lestari
AU  - Primada Qurrota Ayun
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - The Meaning of Digital Media Content for Teenagers and the Role of Parents Assistance
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Indonesian Social & Political Enquiries (ICISPE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 204
EP  - 206
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125922600
ID  - Pudjo2019/11
ER  -