age and globalisation

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  • globalisation and age
    • digital stats
      • offcom report
        • more uk adults are now going online
        • privacy settings depend on the age of the person
        • adults using tablets has doubled from 30% to 64%
        • 6/10 adults now use a smartphone
        • 2/3 of online adults have social media page
    • guardian study
      • 6yr olds understand technology better than 45yrold
        • average 6yrold understands more about techno
        • due to intro of broadband in 2000
        • children developing fundamentally diff. digi skills
        • many adults claim to know about smart phones none under 25 know about SC
        • big diff in use of techno
          • 2 decades ago teens soent time talking on the phone now they text and sc
          • millennium generation loosing its voice
    • Boyle(2007)
      • each successive generation has a greater reliance on digi tech--> digi generational divide
      • ppl see younger generations taking intrest in the media
      • young ppl more receptive to learning new skills--> more keen to assert identity and ownership
      • more expensive to raise child so cowst of living rises therefore more money for tech
      • young ppl have more free time on their hands so they have more time to look at the internet FB etc.
      • tech didn't exist 30 yrs ago so now that is does ppl use it
    • impacts on young people
      • toxic parenting: Palmer, the I pad dad aint the best
      • cyber bullying
      • exploiting children online
      • greater pressure to conform to social expectations
      • online forums to express ideas
      • online support networks for children dealing with grief issues
      • learn new valuable skills through using the internet at a young age.
    • berry(2011) the older internet users
      • research on secondary data
        • among those who do not have access to the internet
          • lack of intrest
          • other psychological barrier:
            • they are afraid of the internet and do not know how to use it
            • finer day social network encourages older people to use the internet

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