SELF ESTEEM AND THE SELFIE PHENOMENON AT THE FACEBOOK PROSUMER TEENAGER Cover Image

SELF ESTEEM AND THE SELFIE PHENOMENON AT THE FACEBOOK PROSUMER TEENAGER
SELF ESTEEM AND THE SELFIE PHENOMENON AT THE FACEBOOK PROSUMER TEENAGER

Author(s): Claudia Chiorean (Talaşman)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: teenager; prosumer; Facebook; irrational beliefs; behavior.

Summary/Abstract: Teenagers spend about half of their free time during a day using various kinds of mass communication, especially the new media: Facebook. The teenager's portrait on Facebook is as varied and complex as it is in real life. In the real life, the teenager knows reality through experience, through education, by means of the family, the school and the society. In the new virtual area towards which we are moving quickly, the Internet (Facebook) is a great source of information and training of adolescent equally with family, school, society. But like any human product, Facebook's virtual world has its advantages and disadvantages, pluses and minuses. The mind's product can have, under the specific conditions, positive effects and negative effects. Sometimes enthusiastically using Facebook the teenager ignores the negative effects.

  • Issue Year: 60/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-38
  • Page Count: 14