"The IMPACT of New Media on Child Socialization" Appliedre Search on Basic Education Schools in Muscat Governorate –Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

The problem of the current research represents an attempt to identify the positive and negative effects of New Media on the socialization process of the Omani children through a number of core dimensions: language, identity, values and religious practices. Also the research included some main concepts such as: new media, Internet, social networks and socialization as well as some sub-concepts such as: language, identity, values and religious practices. The research aims to identify the impact of New Media on the socialization process of the Omani children this is an exploratory research. It depends on the descriptive method, and uses a social survey questionnaire administered to a sample of 270 pupils from 9 primary schools in Muscat. Finally, the research is expected to come out with some important findings concerning to the impacts of exposure pupils to new Media on the basis of which the research will make Timing of internet usage has been freed from any limits, it is now can be used at any time of a day and the user can choose his/her own time and place. The spread of the so-known "Internet Café" has a strong effect on the increasing use of the internet by adolescents and youth; and by the limited-income people who cannot afford buying a computer or paying monthly for the internet providers, which was, at its beginnings, more expensive than now. The internet does not only imply benefits and advantages, it is also as a means for transmitting the globalizations can imply a lot of negatives and disadvantages. There is a consensus among researchers that modern communication technology, the internet in the first place, has opened a new era of communication and interaction among human beings, and indefinite availability of information and knowledge for users. On the other hand, there are fears of the negative effects: physical, psychological, social, cultural effects caused by the over excessive of the internet (El Osimy, SoltanAedhMefreh, 2010: 3). There is high increase in the rate of research and academic focus on the issues and topics of the internet in general, and particularly, the virtual social and community networks since the emergence of the information virtual space accompanying the appearance of the internet, and its production of many virtual groups, beside its availability for millions of human beings. Zaki,Walid(2012), a study about the theory of "social networks from ideology into Ical" asserted that the internet with its interactions has become a part of the daily life for a lot of human beings. The term "virtual community" has been no longer attract attention when heard. It has been of generalized and wide spread meaning, not at the academic analysis only, but rather used by a lot of the internet users. The term was initially used by HawardRhingold who published the first and leading book in this context, titled "The Virtual Community". He defines it as social groupings formed from different areas throughout the world and who communicate with each other through computer monitors and emails to exch...

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