Phenomenon Digitization

Of course, digitalisation has several moments. For now I can only try to explain it with direct access to young people. On the one hand, of course, and this is true for society as a whole, the fact that all social processes have been accelerated immensely by the technical development of digitisation. This includes social processes, including regulation. In other words, we no longer keep up with the development of social reality, but are lagging behind with the development of laws, regulations and such things. The second point, here two things come together: the social has not disappeared, but it has moved into the Internet. So on the one hand, we are dealing with a changed communication. More and more people are communicating via WhatsApp & Co. Not so much to exchange important content, but more and more to be in contact, to be involved, not to miss anything. On the other hand, identity work today is of course preferably done via Instagram and such social web offers, so who am I, who do I want to be, how do others see me? That means to be, today means to take place in the media. From a pedagogical point of view, we are then dealing with a dissolution of the protective space of childhood. To cut a long story short: with entry into the world of smartphones between the ages of nine and ten, children can no longer be effectively protected. Neither legally, nor socially, nor culturally. And on the other hand, of course, the experimental space for young people is becoming increasingly risky, because everything can be brought out again at any time. The last point from my point of view is of course the question of the new form of community building and of course the new form of a so-called hashtag activism. In fact, it offers the possibility to become early participatory, socially and politically really co-determined. For me, these are the central aspects of digitisation at the social level.

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