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THE INTERNET AS A SOCIALIZING AGENT OF THE “M GENERATION”

The following study represents a smaller and localized scale reply from May 2004 to an American survey conducted and released in June 2001 by Pew Internet & American Life Project. The underlying motivation of our research is the more than obvious importance the new communicating technologies gained in the contemporary society. The Internet, computer-mediated communication (CMC), mobile communication and other latest technologies are exerting an extremely complex impact both at the levels of individual psychology and of social structure and dynamics, first of all by radically changing quantitatively and qualitatively the way people communicate. And the reason for choosing the teen generation as a “subject” of research is that they are practically born along with the new generation of media technology, an aspect that renders them different from the previous human generations, pretty much in the same way the new communicating technology doesn’t look anymore like anything that preceded it. Consequently, the tight connection between adolescents and the new media technology was denominated by various researchers with expressions like the “millennial generation,” the “M (Media) generation,” or the “digital generation.”