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New media technologies and Youth in Pakistan

Abstract

During recent years in Pakistan, the growing use of new media technologies has greatly influenced the people. Particularly, the country’ youth is largely involved in using new media especially mobile and social websites. The use of new media, in one way, has cast positive impacts on the country’s youth helping them become much more informed, politically active and socially involved. However on the other hand, the revolution of new media is also deemed as a source of engaging the same youth in useless activities. It is considered that instead of searching productive information at Internet, the youth look for indecent content; in the name of political participation through social media, they turn out to be intolerant and violent; and instead of being socially connected, they get isolated and seclude from their own families. As a matter of fact, new media has impacted the Pakistani youth negatively in psychological, political, and social ways. This argumentative paper presents an in-depth analysis of the use of new media and its subsequent effects on the Pakistani youth.

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