Postponed: Lecture on "Digital Media in Childhood and Youth" now in winter term 2021/22

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The lecture "Digital Media in Childhood and Youth: Fields of Tension between Opportunities & Risks, Social Participation & (Sexualized) Violence" of Katharina Kärgel will take place in the winter term 2021/22.

The use of digital media in childhood and adolescence is usually viewed from its dark side. A media scandalization of youth sexuality is accompanied, for example, by the fear that children and young people will become lonely through digital media use, not learn to feel love or marginalize inner values compared to the importance of external appearances. Despite these concerns, digital media are in fact increasingly becoming part of the central reference parameters of socialization in a variety of ways. A separation of the online and offline world or the everyday and media world is therefore obsolete. Digital media represent an essential component of (identity) development. They hold a great deal of potential by expanding the spaces of experience, interaction and information of children and young people. At the same time, digital media are a prerequisite for social participation. Irrespective of the opportunities digital media offer, they entail risks, particularly for children and young people. For example, there is the risk of being unknowingly and unwillingly confronted with misinformation. Likewise, (sexualized) self-portrayals shared in a relationship can be disseminated by potential perpetrators without consent - even in pedocriminal markets. The lecture will highlight the spectrum of opportunities and risks of digital media use in childhood and adolescence and draw conclusions for successful prevention on this basis.

The lecture (in German language) is open to the public. Date, room and registration modalities will be announced.