The impact of the media on socialization а child of preschool age

Abstract

In today's world, a child's personality is surrounded by the technosphere from early childhood, an essential part of which is the media and communications. In an information society, media products are becoming a powerful agent of influence on preschool children. The earlier and more actively children begin to interact with computers, mobile applications, e-books and tablets, the more intensively their socialization is realized according to the media socialization scenario. This leads to risks specific to each age category of children and related to the psychological characteristics of their development. In preschool age, children who actively consume media products face such risks as mental retardation (formation of visual and imaginative perception and thinking), speech and emotional development, and the formation of distorted knowledge and ideas about the world around them. At the present stage, the issue of media education is very acute in Ukraine, because our future, including the future of our country, depends on the quality of the information we receive.