Challenges of the family and cyberspace in the Corona and post-Corona eras

Fars News Agency – Media Group: Morteza Karamouzian (PhD in Media Management and Researcher in the Field of Cyberspace and Media) – Vice President of Media Literacy Association – With the missile growth of new information and communication technologies, the line between privacy and social life has become very thin. In fact, these new technologies, along with the many benefits, have led to damage to the individual and social lives of defenseless people.

Due to the special features of this cyberspace and the novelty of this phenomenon, which in the past two years has often been referred to as the second life (but I call it the first life of many teenagers and young people) many parents have the opportunity, possibility or They have not gained enough power to know exactly this space and its applications, and their lack of proper knowledge of this space and in contrast to the daily use of adolescents and young people and all people and strata of this space has caused a confidential and private space. To be created indoors for our children and they can access different sites in this space without worries and without feeling the presence of an outside observer, and sometimes due to their age and personality traits and curiosities, affected by unhealthy spaces on the Internet. To turn. Of course, the corona has become more of an issue. During the corona, parents were forced to provide their children with all kinds of gadgets and communication devices.

Numerous studies in this field show that cyberspace:

1. Makes people suffer from the illusion of knowing everything. (They comment on everything)
2. Reduces people’s real and physical interactions with each other.
3. Increases the risk of depression and isolation.
4. Destroys creativity and initiative of people. (Brings a robot)
5. Violation of privacy is greatly increased.
6. Reduces all security.
7. It strongly causes negative effects on nerves, moral and sexual deviations, as well as identity crisis and attempts to hide identity.
8. It leads to social ills such as the spread of emptiness, false rumors, truth and false news, unconventional relationships, social isolation and broken boundaries.

In my opinion, the most negative consequences of excessive and incorrect use of cyberspace are isolation, shame, loss of privacy, weakening of family foundations, and this is due to the family’s ignorance and inattention to the negative effects of cyberspace. In this age of corona, we have all become addicted to this space.

Of course, it must be admitted that the harms and threats that people face in this space are divided into two types; First, the repulsive and tangible harms and effects, in a strict sense, such as the insult to the privacy of individuals, which human beings realize and suffer from in the very first moments of occurrence. Second, the harms and effects of calm, gradual, intangible and soft that man does not realize at the beginning, but over time and over time sees the results in himself and his life. Like those contents and advertisements of social networks, etc., which gradually weaken the foundation of families and lead to the weakening of family social relations, educational disorders, emotional divorces, virtual addictions, and finally the dissolution of families. This is how the mass of suspicions and propaganda against religious values ​​and sanctities and beliefs, which gradually and not all at once, weakens and shakes these beliefs among individuals.

After the corona cut and the post-corona period, we definitely have to prepare ourselves for this. We are facing a tsunami of threats, problems and challenges of cyberspace. Therefore, it is necessary to think from now on or consider excellent laws in this field for the people, especially education.

Meanwhile, unfortunately, due to shortcomings such as lack of updates, lack of proper infrastructure and overlap of related devices and institutions, we see shortcomings in law enforcement and finally, due to lack of proper information and culture to explain the rules and warnings. Essentially, users have very little information about the rules in cyberspace.

Officials and experts have been asked many times in meetings, panels and media discourses that in order to present any solution, pathology must first be examined. The new cyberspace for young people and families, pathology, sociology, economics, culture, education, training, etc. examined, when we understand the causes, then we can design the appropriate solution.

As an expert and person who has studied media literacy and media management and cyberspace for more than 15 years, I have come to the conclusion that before anything happens, the future must be researched and the alarm for the people and the officials must be sounded. .

One of the biggest social issues facing today’s societies is the weakness of the family foundation, and our Iran, unfortunately, is no exception to this rule. Since the problems of families occur in the form of social anomalies, the family and its health are of great importance. Preparing the children and youth of this region for accepting social responsibilities, especially in the post-Crown era, is one of the most important and basic tasks of families. Many literacy must be learned from now on, such as emotional literacy, financial literacy, communication literacy and. ..

Some important ways to avoid cyberspace challenges and prepare for isolation in the post-corona era:
1- Creating an intimate and friendly atmosphere in families
2- Creating a relationship of trust between parents and children, especially young people
3- Bringing cyberspace relationships to real space
4- Spending time with children more often
5 – Avoid aimless web browsing (turn to real and family fun and find safe alternatives to cyberspace)
6- Not publishing personal information and family secrets in cyberspace

Therefore, to enter the new era (post-corona era), one must first know human identity. Man, as an intelligent and purposeful being, must go through several stages for growth and perfection, especially in this period:
 Preparation
 Training
 Acceptance
 Breeding
Today is not the age of communication, unfortunately it is the age of isolation and loneliness. The heavy storm of the age of communication with the age of Corona has faced many challenges for the person who is the center of consciousness, such as:
1- Pure consumption in the production of cyberspace content (I am just a good publisher. Of course, we reject the content of entertainment, fan, humor and yellow, we have style)
2- We are completely passive, not active users
3- Extremism in using this space
4- We have no preparation for the new era which is the post-corona era (the era of IoT and artificial intelligence, etc.)
5- We have very few advisors, experts and sympathizers in this field, especially in schools and universities
6. Unfortunately, our media literacy is below the global average.
7- We suffer from mental indigestion. Intellectual digestion is the same as physical digestion, but if people with mental and emotional indigestion are left without education, it will cause severe cultural and media confusion and abandonment in the face of the vast amount of information.
8- We have a lack of excellent laws in this field. If a law wants to be passed, like the protection law, we will all become experts in this field.
9- One of the main challenges is the lack of content refinement, which has caused useful and non-useful content to not be refined. Who is the body in charge of this area ?!
He thought fundamentally about these challenges for the post-Corona era. Both the officials and the people

Finally, I would like to say that cyberspace is now a suitable tool for the development of human thoughts and ideas, provided that it is used in the right way. People and officials should study the future in order to enter the post-Corona world in the use of cyberspace and avoid its great challenges, and have enough information so that the country does not face serious problems in this area.

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