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For so long as I can bear in mind, I’ve all the time been involved with the query of what world will the brand new era be born into? That hasn’t modified and the query stays the identical. What modified; Greece is now a multicultural nation, it skilled a tough decade and extra, with memoranda and monetary difficulties, the place the financial disaster nonetheless impacts us all, whereas formally each 45 minutes, an incident of home violence is reported, with girls as victims. This osmosis of cultures, the dearth of guidelines and the non-application of the regulation, results in incidents of violence day by day, the place youngsters are the protagonists amongst others!

By ELENIS VASSILOPOULOU

A little bit of imitation and social media developments, the necessity of younger folks to exist by means of their profiles and have 1000’s of followers, but in addition the data that influencers make some huge cash, lead youngsters and youngsters to behave unjustifiably. More often than not, they develop into witnesses or perpetrators of violent incidents, the place they report them to make tales and achieve an viewers. Nonetheless, there are additionally instances the place they settle for challenges, subjecting themselves to checks of self-harm or daring acts that endanger their lives.

Additionally brutal is the truth that everybody by means of social networks or on-line feedback, has the chance to mock and particularly insult one other, with none value for his or her act.

Vassilis Giannakopoulos, is a revered sociologist, MSc in Public Well being, Phd and PhD candidate on the Medical College of Patras. Additionally, it’s if. head of KEFIAP PGNP (Bodily Medication and Rehabilitation Middle). In his capability as a sociologist and as a professor who teaches younger folks, we’ll speak regarding this new era and its traits in an alienated society the place values ​​are additionally declining.

-How do you characterize the brand new era?
The brand new era, in search of its mark in our time, is impartial, distant, knowledgeable, decided to alter the details that concern it.
He tries to slot in a troublesome panorama the place positions are few and difficulties are extra, in an setting that’s continuously altering, seizing alternatives.

-Why is there a lot violence amongst youngsters?
Adolescence is characterised, amongst different issues, because the time of self-discovery and life exploration. At this time within the social, household and faculty setting violence is a frequent phenomenon and even supposing it has all the time existed, it may be proven reside, it may be simply recorded by means of a telephone and shared on a number of platforms.
The music trade, influencers, music developments are parts that affect them and infrequently information them as “style” to commit small or bigger acts of violence.

-Does social media affect and outline their life-style?
Social media has a dominant position in shaping the habits, values ​​and preferences of youngsters and younger folks. It’s their most important means of knowledge, leisure, work and socializing, reinforcing their alienation and decreasing their social interactions.
Social media and its totally different present and future platforms and varieties will solely get stronger within the close to future if states don’t implement management mechanisms and legislative restrictions to make sure the safety of their customers.

-Why do youngsters and younger folks not respect the establishments?
Younger folks query and deny conventional attitudes, they don’t settle for an establishment that doesn’t adapt to the brand new calls for of the instances, so that they simply reject them and consider them negatively.
A college setting with outdated content material is just not enticing to them, doesn’t present them with motivation and so they merely take part in it procedurally.
A authorities company that doesn’t contact them in a contemporary manner, doesn’t inform them successfully and easily, performs a controlling manner with very dangerous dealing with too typically anymore, because the coaching within the new phenomena is lacking, solely disgust and indifference arouses them.
Establishments should move the message in a contemporary manner, make it understood and accepted following which they are going to obtain the respect as a consequence of them, if and in the event that they “earn” it, in any other case the message has handed by means of the social networks that urge their discredit.

-Anybody can insult anybody they need on social media. That is uncontrollable.
The comfort of digital media, new manners, immediacy and their robust reference to trendy man is a handy means for in the present day’s man to react and “report” that he doesn’t prefer it.
When trendy society doesn’t have adequate constructions to have the ability to take care of the social phenomena of violence, sexual harassment, and many others. then the straightforward manner is to videotape, {photograph} and expose to the general public.
Laws ought to put a restrict on the publications, the contents shared and the arbitrariness of the sharing of private life. Societies want boundaries, by means of social analyzes and instant changes when new modifications happen.