New media and adolescents: portrayals and perspectives

Author: 
Deepak Kem

The present paper while discussing the offerings of the new media technologies and their effects on the adolescents has two fold objectives. Primarily it makes a literary attempt to understand adolescent as a category. Secondly, it makes a critically interrogation on the manner in which the adolescent are seen in communication studies. Therefore, the paper would analyze the existing scholarly literature pertaining to the field of adolescents and their engagement with the new media in order to outline the continuity, change and emerging trends in the traditions of communication research that help us to put in perspective our understanding on the leading discourse on adolescent and their interaction with the new media.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.11351.1960
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