2023-08-18 06:00:00
PSYCHOLOGY – They are called the “digital native” or the “Gen Z”, because they were born during the fourth digital revolution. Does this change their relationship to the world and to others?
They have always known the internet, cell phones and social networks. And once they become teenagers, they sometimes prefer virtual exchanges to real meetings. Can this affect the development of their brain? Are their social interactions different from those of their elders since this revolution?
«The young child learns to speak only thanks to the very real exchanges he has with his entourage, which no computer can replace.concedes Dr. François-Marie Caron, pediatrician (CHU Amiens), former president of the French Association of Ambulatory Pediatrics. But the case of the adolescent is different. When he lives a new experience, whether real or virtual, the possible neural changes (interconnections) in his brain are similar. It is therefore not the digital tool that is a problem in itself, but rather the use made of it. »
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