Research On Current Situation And Countermeasures Of Teenagers’ Network Media Literacy

Nowadays, with more and more advanced network technology, the network has penetrated our lives, the advent of the Internet age has become an indisputable fact. In this era, not only the media elite gradually stepped down, ordinary Internet users have got the wand of production and dissemination, but also the way the network information dissemination channels are becoming more diverse with microblogging, letters and other widely used. At the same time, due to the sharp increase in information producers and uneven quality of their network media literacy,information overloading and information fragmentation and other problems become increasingly serious. Thus, we have to think about how to improve their media literacy to calmly deal with these new problems. Traditional media literacy emphasize the development of critical ability, but it has been unable to solve new problems now. Therefore,we must construct a new network media literacy theory and gravity into the " information management capabilities" and "ability to participate in media" which focus on training people to deal with information overloading and other issues.Furthermore, youth is a special group.From the perspective of network empowerment,network is essentially the "double-edged sword."After being empowered by network,the teenagers not only have the possibility to use the internet to build up a platform for knowledge sharing,and then contribute to the formation of solidarity and mutual assistance consciousness,but also may exacerbate information pollution even to group polarization in the process of interactive communication. From the perspective of social psychology,if the teenagers lack network media literacy,many problems may occur,such as cognition becoming inaccurate, emotion becoming negative and behavior going off the rail.All these indicate that network media literacy is indispensable for teenagers.Tacking three hundred students from three secondary schools in hunan province as a sample,we conducted an empirical investigation on the current situation of teenagers’ network media literacy.The results show that many problems arise in the course of using the network.The teenagers not only over-indulge in entertainment,but also held misconceptions of information.They rarely take the initiative to participate in the media actively,and their awareness of the law is very weak.These are restricting the healthy growth of teenagers who are survivaling in the internet context.Obviously,the status of teenagers’network media literacy is not optimistic.In order to change this situation,we must adopt targeted measures.Firstly,We must not only take helping teenagers to establish rational emotion orientation and scientific knowledge structure as the focus, but also pay close attention to training united consciousness of dissemination.Secondly,we must depart from two dimensions of helping teenagers to update information concepts and master information technologies,and then gradually carry out education which takes training right information concepts and mastering information technologies as the focus of the content. Finally,wo need to establish a interactive mode of network media literacy education.On the one hand,we must establish youth-centered interactive relationships on the basis of knowing the characteristics of teenagers.On the other hand, wo need to mobilize schools, families and community to establish trinitariany and interactive relationships.In the process of interaction,schools, families and community must fulfill their proper function and go hand in hand.Of course,in the long term,in order to enhance the network media literacy,we nust not only focus on teenagers’ network media literacy education, but also spare no effort to promote network media literacy education as a lifelong education.