A infância frente as mídias digitais

Abstract

This work is a qualitative monographic research that explores the historical and social Idea of childhood, addressing the challenges that children encounter before the discovery of childhood and how they are comprehended nowadays in society, together with the rase of digital media and how these factors influence their personal, cognitive and educational development, with the general objective of analyzing the influence of digital media and its impacts on child development. For this purpose, research was carried out for a bibliographic review to promote a debate based on the works of four main authors: Philippe Ariès “Social History of Childhood and the Family”; Neil Postman “The Disappearance of Childhood”; Michel Desmurget, “The Digital Cretins Factory” and Marc Prensky “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants”. This research had a qualitative and exploratory character, And is precise to say, it reflect on the theme of childhood and the impacts of digital media. The work is divided into two chapters that seek to discuss the concept of childhood, children in contemporary times and new digital media based on the perspective of a generation of digital natives and immigrants. The main results indicate that when investigating children born in the digital age and their impact on child development, these media do not place restrictions on their users, prioritizing only that they remain connected, causing serious aggravations in their family and educational relationships, which in turn, show themselves to be unprepared and unconcerned about introducing and working with these technologies, provoking a healthy use of them for our children. It is hoped that this work will help to support further debates on the subject