The Impacts of Internet on Adolescents in Hong Kong
The Impacts of Internet on Adolescents in Hong Kong
This is a study of mass media in Hong Kong by focusing on how teenagers consume internet by researching on the usage & categories (this will give a solid introduction to this paper) and three modern problems (heavy uses of social platform, internet addiction, and online gaming addiction“) that a number of teenagers in Hong Kong seems to have or come across with, with reference to data and information that suggest the existent of these phenomenon. In addition Hong Kong’s data will be compared with some western data.
Usage & Categories:
Starting from usage & categories, there will be no doubt to say that almost every teenager in Hong Kong have access to a computer and internet in any sort of way, it might be at school, public internet place, cafe or at home. The way they use internet varies depending on where they are, for example; school use is for work, public internet place use is for gaming if the computer is in a gaming centre or library use is also for work, cafe use is for working or social networking and lastly home use will mostly be on entertainment, social services or private uses.
Solely looking at the statement that just been pointed out it might misinform people the fact that every teenager uses internet the same way as I said but that is not the fact. In a fair way to readdress this, some teenagers are heavy active users, some are not, some focus on gaming while others focus on social networking and some might just use it as an information database.
There are 4878713internet users in Hong Kong, that is 69.2% of the whole population1, and there the population of teenagers (14-19) is 435500 which is 6.5% of Hong Kong’s population2. There are 816 computers per 1000 which puts Hong Kong ranked 11 in the world3, so it is fairly easy to conclude that almost every teenager will be able to have access to a computer and internet in some way, by saying this, any social problem related to
This is a study of mass media in Hong Kong by focusing on how teenagers consume internet by researching on the usage & categories (this will give a solid introduction to this paper) and three modern problems (heavy uses of social platform, internet addiction, and online gaming addiction“) that a number of teenagers in Hong Kong seems to have or come across with, with reference to data and information that suggest the existent of these phenomenon. In addition Hong Kong’s data will be compared with some western data.
Usage & Categories:
Starting from usage & categories, there will be no doubt to say that almost every teenager in Hong Kong have access to a computer and internet in any sort of way, it might be at school, public internet place, cafe or at home. The way they use internet varies depending on where they are, for example; school use is for work, public internet place use is for gaming if the computer is in a gaming centre or library use is also for work, cafe use is for working or social networking and lastly home use will mostly be on entertainment, social services or private uses.
Solely looking at the statement that just been pointed out it might misinform people the fact that every teenager uses internet the same way as I said but that is not the fact. In a fair way to readdress this, some teenagers are heavy active users, some are not, some focus on gaming while others focus on social networking and some might just use it as an information database.
There are 4878713internet users in Hong Kong, that is 69.2% of the whole population1, and there the population of teenagers (14-19) is 435500 which is 6.5% of Hong Kong’s population2. There are 816 computers per 1000 which puts Hong Kong ranked 11 in the world3, so it is fairly easy to conclude that almost every teenager will be able to have access to a computer and internet in some way, by saying this, any social problem related to