Research On The Phenomenon About The Boundary Of Social Age Which Blured By The New Media

Media is a carrier and also a tool of the transmission of information, and its changes have effected on every aspects of social life, including social age. Social age refers to the characteristics of the age which showed in social activities. It incarnated the ability of individual to participate in social activities, the ability of deal with social problems, and the ability of affecting the other social members. Age limits of the community are not static, it changes with the diversification of the society, and different time has different criteria.According to the divisions of"stages in media history"on the subject of Media Environment, the era of traditional media can be divided as follows: the Oral Era, the Characters Times, the Printing Times and the Electronic Age. The Oral Era and the Characters Times are the original period of social age. Although the oral media and the characters media are two distinctive independent phases in media history, the Oral Era and the Characters Times of these two stages which have found a great similarity in judge of social age boundaries. During this period, the chief reference-childhood, that is the limitations of medium led to the social age boundaries in judgments, was assigned to only a short part of the developing human age in total length. One could even say that no modern concept of children in this period.This kind of condition after the printing method is born has had the huge change. The printing method time is the modern society age boundary formative year. The printing method appearance, the social age boundary which formed to the spoken language medium time has had the major impact, simultaneously urged the social age to have the new boundary."printing has created a new grown-up definition, namely the adult is refers to has the reading knowledge person, then had a new childhood definition relatively, namely the child does not refer to the reading knowledge person". The print media simultaneously also promoted in the modern significance family structure birth. The social age's new change manifests in the family. In this kind is different with under the spoken language medium social age boundary latitude, the adult was considered that is the authority, but is serious, in the family status is unshakeable, the child is lively and weak, is restricted and the surveillance in the family; The adult was considered that is solemn, its words and deeds and the attire and so on must be legitimate, the child must maintain the child is real, it has her low age clothing and the simple terminology.The Standard of social age which had formed in the time of print media has been using until now. but it had become indistinct form the electronic media.that because in the electronic media,the importance of images gradually replaced the words',the Symbols Damaged the Inherent basis of the boundary between Adults and Children.Adults lose the absolute power of controling the Information gradually.and at the same time, children get a broader space for development In this regard. so the Standard that formed in the print era become more and more ambiguous.The new medium's appearance, intensified this kind of phenomenon. The new medium is the social age boundary accelerator, it through expanded the child to the social activity percentage participating, the acceleration"the youth worship"the cultural dissemination, promotion tradition functions and so on family structure evolution and to person's individuality release further blurred the social age boundary. After the new medium appears, relied on its advanced technical method and the novel propagation mode has accelerated the social age boundary fuzzy condition which produced to the printing method time.Now the social age boundary fuzzy already became our society a remarkable phenomenon, the child further strengthens at social affair's participation and influence ability, otherwise but the adult actually dresses up, the conversation manner aspect in the attire still to show one kind of youth's makings, they may retain child's instinct and the values while thought mature, the New York Times once wrote to suggest that the modern metropolis the adult ritual should begin in 30 years old, but non-18 years old. The new medium urges the social age early time to form the place family the evolution, child's rises gradually in family status. But the social environment under the new medium's influence, further releases the individuality which released people, this to accelerates the traditional society age boundary to play the influential role fuzzily.A bit sea and the individuality free paragenesis is the social age fuzzy essence. The new medium magnanimous information reserve, the multiplex information constitution, the diverse information dissemination pattern about face tradition society age has formed information environment. The new medium has manifested the result which fuzzily to the social age boundary the new old two kind of social age collides mutually, but this kind of collision's future, will be one kind of new social age boundary birth. Because the social age explains from the dissemination study angle of view is one kind to information acquisition, understanding and use ability degree social reflection. The medium is the social age determination one kind of beacon, because the information holds, the knowledge accumulation as well as significance explanation ability is the important standard which the social age forms. The medium development changed the social age division way, this kind of change complies with the trend of the times and the change development. The print media time produces the social age's boundary will certainly to accelerate under the new medium influence to wither away, the new social age division way will form finally.