Social networks and television, the main sources of information in young people
Knowing what happens around us is important. Get information about the present is something essential for day to day and to keep up there are many ways: television, newspapers, radio, digital media. The latter have changed the situation and have been imposed on other platforms.
In fact, digital platforms have changed the way in which new generations are informed of current events. This is what La indicates Journalist Union of Valencia, that after carrying out several workshops in different institutes of this community they have verified that the youngest ones resort a lot to the social networks to know the actuality. Of course, television continues to occupy an important place in media consumption.
Reduction of newspapers
If social networks increase and television stays, newspapers fall. Young people do not use the written or digital press to stay informed, they connect to social networks to know what is happening to their around. That is, usually do not usually go by themselves to these media to know what is happening around them.
The news they see in other social network profiles serves them to meet their information needs. Although on the other hand, these workshops have also found that among the new generations there is little interest at present, which is why young people do not know where to go to know their day to day and "they let themselves inform"so on these platforms or television.
The solution could happen in teaching the most young boys to manage within the vast world that the internet supposes. Learn to survive among this flow of information, and especially make them interested in the press, whether printed or digital. Make them understand the need to know what happens around them.
Distinguish false information on the Internet and social networks
One of the main problems arising from this situation is that most young people do not know how to distinguish between a true and a false information. A lot of credibility is given to everything they see published on social networks. This is indicated by a study carried out by the
Satanford University that after asking 7,000 students He concluded that 82% of young people do not know how to verify the truth of a story.
The criteria for granting veracity They have also been altered among the younger ones. According to the data of this work, more than two thirds of high school students saw no valid reason not to trust an article that was written by a bank executive in which he argued why new generations need financial help.
In addition, almost four out of ten respondents thought, based on the headline, that a photo of wilted daisies published on a photo-exchange site was indisputable proof of contamination in Fukushima, even though at no time was it specified.
Damián Montero
