Digital Communication Controlling Youngsters in Delhi, India, and Salalah, Oman: A Case Study

The new generation considers media technology as valuable assistance, while old and experience people take it as detrimental as well as beneficial. The internet has strengthened the ability to scan and learn faster, but it also influences learning and makes it complicated (Griffiths, 2000). This critical thinking led us to ponder over the relationship of technology with learning ability and forced us to examine its impact upon the youngsters’ attitude and expression towards the outer world. This research focuses on 3 to 13 years’ age group children as their developing minds can be easily ductile by frequent media exposure. News of kids committing suicide after playing online games, raise serious concern for everyone regarding the use of new media and its adverse effect. Our primary objective is to find out the reasons for the negative impact of media and new media without ignoring the positive side of the digital natives (Musgrove, 2008) (The Economist, 2010). The findings provide an insightful understanding of the technological influence on children's reasoning and learning ability, impact on their physical health, decision making ability, action and interaction to the outer world. The survey, observation, and case study method are applied to conclude the results.