Media overexposure of the adolescent body
Christian Distefano
Technology, with its technological apparatus, represents the essence of man, an aid to fill that instinctual gap that characterises man and sets him against the animal. It is from modernity, however, that we witness that heterogenesis of ends characterised by an ever-increasing presence of technological tools, aimed at an ever-increasing domination of nature, which conceals, however, the metamorphosis of man into a mass hermit, conditioned and subjugated to those very tools he devised. It is in adolescence that this abuse emerges with greater force, not only because of the time spent by the youngest on the various devices, but also because of the purpose with which they are often used: thus opens up that overexposure of one’s body on social and the encroachment into the dark web which, if on the one hand involves adolescents by caging them in extreme challenges and dysfunctional groups, on the other becomes the most tangible manifestation of an extreme need for admiration.
Keywords
Body advertising, Adolescence Pedagogy, Digital refuge, Digital identity packaged, Need for admiration
