Year: 2016 | Month: December | Volume 4 | Issue 2
Impact of Social Media on Tribal Youth
Sheshkumar Ramchandra Sharma
DOI:10.5958/2454-9525.2016.00008.1
Abstract:
Present paper focuses on Impact of social media on tribal youth through Digital India programme and impact on tribal culture and education with special reference to north east India. India has grown in its size of population, diversity and also positively in the field of information and communication technology. This is significant because information and social awareness have emerged as important factors of human empowerment. Social media has generated new dimension for tribal youth to learn and access to knowledge and skill development is completely new, and in some way tribal youth benefit more than adults because of their familiarity with new media and their openness to applying it as a learning reservoir. Since social media offers lot of interesting ways of learning anything, anywhere, anytime, the tribal youth learners are quite comfortable with the options available to them for learning as compared to the traditional educational transaction. But surprisingly, the reach of telecommunication and level of connectivity across the north east region is limited, especially in comparison to the rest of India. Thus the tribal clusters need dedicated focus on digital skill and literacy. Social media provides open line of communication builds new understandings and collaborations for tribal youth of north east India from very different cultures. Social media has become a huge platform for the tribal youth of north east India to present their talents to the rest of the world.
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