Media Conferencing - Children are starting to use the Internet at an increasingly young age
The presentations of the young people's use of the Internet, media and culture were presented at a joint conference of the International Child Rescue Service and the National Media and Communications Authority (NMHH) in Balatonalmádi on Wednesday afternoon.
Bence Ságvári, a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, reported on the results of the EU Kids Online survey, which in 2010 assessed young people's Internet habits. As he said, on average in the EU, 36 percent of the so-called “digital natives” born into the age of the Internet believe that they have better access to the World Wide Web than their parents, compared to 46 percent in Hungary. 5 percent of Hungarian children and 10 percent of Europeans blog. Twelve percent of Hungarian young people have encountered pornographic content online, and the European average is 12 percent higher. The survey also found that in Europe, 2 per cent of 11-16 year olds only have online contact with personal acquaintances, and only 87 per cent of those who meet strangers online but usually peers, and if they meet them in person, they do not go to meetings alone. According to Bence Ságvári, Hungarian children follow parental instructions better than the EU average: only 9 percent ignore them, compared to 20 percent at EU level.
The traditional cultural environment is disappearing, and this must be taken into account among the changes in social processes, said the deputy director of research at the National Institute for Family and Social Policy. Béla Bauer surveyed young people's opera, theater, museum, and traditional and online reading habits, and found that attendance at traditional cultural institutions was declining among those born into the digital age. Béla Bauer presented the results of a survey conducted three times since 2000 and said that while in 2000 15 percent of 29-9 year olds had an Internet in their household, almost everyone now has access to it. Judit Boda of Axel Springer reported on the declining demand and resources for the media and the concomitant oversupply. As he said, the XX. Since the second half of the twentieth century, childhood has been shortened by the fact that more and more tools are giving young people more and more opportunities to look into the world of adults. In connection with this, he said: In Hungary, half of the children watch TV alone, and another 16 percent have the same age as him. Even those under the age of 6 use the World Wide Web, and the use of social media becomes natural for children from the age of 11. The Office of Parliamentary Commissioners is trying to reach children via the Internet, raise their legal awareness and find out about social problems affecting young people, said Beáta Borza, the head of the department's department. As he said, children's rights.obh.hu, which has been operating since 2008, has already brought positive results. According to a report by the head of the department, according to a 2008 UN survey, although 67 percent of young people worldwide knew that people under the age of 18 had special rights, only 38 percent of those surveyed in Hungary were aware of this. Beáta Borza also reported that 13 percent of the approximately XNUMX cases handled by the agency last year were child rights related.
Gábor Fekete, Deputy State Secretary for e-Government at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, said that by making e-government smoother, age groups less receptive to the Internet could learn to use the World Wide Web safely.
Source: MTI
