A term used to describe the speeding up of society in a self-propelling process, through of dimensions of social acceleration, regarding mechanical and manufacturing processes in the modern times.
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A Critical Review of Social Screen Time Management by Youngsters in Formal Educational Contexts
Enrickson Varsori (University of Minho, Portugal) and Sara Pereira (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8163-5.ch008
Abstract
Several studies value the importance of technologies in everyday social processes, stressing loudly its positive effects for time control and management. However, the use of digital technology is increasingly said to co-produce the ways youngsters experience daily lives, as these are increasingly weaved in media hyperconnections, in several insidious and multiple forms, and in a continuous and enduring manner. This text focuses on the state of the art about the extension and nature of these co-productive processes, highlighting the effects of the technological means of communication on youngster's time representations and experiences, namely considering the social networks and other interactional devices that are now constituting increasingly more the individual identity, despite its intangibleness. The goal is to critically analyze the existing literature on time, technology, and youth, presenting its main contributions from a conceptual, methodological and practical point of view, including the use and the ways in media hyperconnections.