KEŞFEDİLEN ÇOCUK, İLETİŞİM TEKNOLOJİLERİYLE YİTİP GİDEN ÇOCUKLUK ve ÇOCUK KÜLTÜRÜ

He perception of the phenomenon of child and childhood varies according to different geographical locations and periods of time. Both cases have sometimes been ignored, sometimes treated as nonexistent, sometimes regarded as if they belong to the same category with adults and their world and sometimes taken very seriously with their limits set with great care to protect their innocent nature. In other words contrary to how children are designed, how they are perceived always reflects a social and historical view point. Child/ childhood culture which was first treated as nonexistent and once discovered lost its innocent, natural and curious nature to globalism, communication technologies and consumption ideals, adapts itself to the adult's world more and more as time passes. The children of modern times who grew up in poverty, kept their creativity, positivity, purity and most importantly their hopes and who could easily communicate with their family and surrounding have been replaced by introverted post-modern children who are addicted to screens and internet, consuming all the time yet never feeling satisfied, falling into misery when their needs cannot be met. In today's postmodern world kids are surrounded by communication technologies. Children who grew up in front of screens with video games, films and commercials created by adults, living in their “safer houses” instead of “dangerous streets” lost their children culture due to little interaction with each other. The fact that places for socializing outside home are diminishing has made it impossible for a kid to get to know and understand who he is. Moreover in postmodern world, neither parents can spare time to their children as much as they did in the past nor the children are interested in the experience and knowledge of adults. Screen is hereafter a modern nanny, a teacher, a friend, a library full of books and a direct visual access to their children for busy parents. The state of being like a “young adult” pumped by media in the consumption era finds a reflection in the adult's world as “discover the child inside of you”. This way, when they become adults, children who have grown up rapidly make up for their childhood they could not live. The article focuses on the historical stages of child /childhood concept in West and the child culture that is being eroded and globalised with the effect of media and consumption society.