Digital society and Learner Identity

This book in its theoretical as well as empirical part shows the research results which point to the fact that the new media change habits and values of young people and children. Under the spread of technical globalization patterns of behaviour, up-bringing, learning and preferences are being changed. Some research results point to the fact that the media are more and more turning into a source of manipulation and addiction, instead of being a source of information, education and entertainment. The phenomenon of the so called cyber space media culture is ever more present and carries multiple implications on consciousness and behaviour of young people and children. The influence of the new media (new information-communication technology, social mass media, and digital communication through text messages, sound, picture and video) makes the identity confusion of adolescents even deeper, offering the possibility of global communication that exchanges knowledge, values and lifestyles. This brings it to the level of global culture mediated by the contemporary media.