A Critical Approach to the Speech about Children and Information Society: the Problem of Social Isolation

Abstract

New technologies of information and communication (TICs) are the evidence of a wide range of changes that are taking place in the everyday life of people that we describe with the name information society. However the analysis of this new information society is considering only superficially the impact of TICs in certain domains, as it is the case of households and social life of children, and the speech about the impact of this information society is affected by the social representation of childhood when social isolation is noticed. In this text we show the findings that resulted of an exploratory qualitative study in which children from 6 to 13 years old took part to explain us how these new technologies had affected their lives, finding a sensible divergence between reality and diagnosis.