UNDERSTANDING THE NEW GENERATION & THEIR CHOICES: PASSING THROUGH IDENTITY, FLEXIBILITY & MIGRATION CRISIS

Children are becoming the focus of the information age. How they develop their values and how strong their decisions are always questioned. The complex nature of the communication techniques and strategies of today and the multilingual, multicultural, multidimentional structure of the society force children to develop in a rather different way than before. With the impact of the media and the local, national, global values sometimes contradicting with another, it is rather interesting to see how the concepts are shaped and how the decision making processes are effected by the media in childhood and we should question the way they change. The decision making process and the importance of the media impact on it will illuminate how the communities will be governed in future which will also bring new perspectives regarding the environmental problems and social conflicts. The potential roles of children for the future and their understanding of equality, power and empowerment issues will give us a chance to understand the world dynamics of the future. This study aims to investigate the identity and reflection of the identity issues starting from the early ages of childhood, focusing more on the empowerment strategies, decision making process and managemental skills of children. Do we really know about the past or who really cares about the future? Why people would like to stick to the values or memories instead of starting life from the very beginning just like a child. Expecting for something concrete and something absolute would cause the brain to work in different ways. Even if we care much more about the children and provide almost everything they might need, the current generation and the past generation has a gap in between due to the valuing things in different ways. For those who suffered in their childhood, it seems to be too late to make sacrifices for the others throughout the rest of their lives since people have already closed their doors for differences or understanding. The paper would be questioning the media perspective and how media played an important role in their development and evolving process. What are the media and schooling expectations of these youngsters or how media shaped these expectations? What values have changed for them and who gave them the new ones? What are the flexible parts of their identity and how they make use of it to overcome the migration crisis? This unique study concentrates on the individual stories of 70 children in Istanbul passing through the identity and migration crisis at their early ages. Due to the limitations of the study and the ethical issues considered, the direct questions were never asked to them instead providing them the game like situations is preferred. These simulations were aimed to assess their aptitude and attitudes for values of the past, present and future. Rather than the quantitative one, this study aims to concentrate on the qualitative approach, focusing more on the tete-a-tete data collection techniques, face to face interviews and focus group works. Cocuklar bilgi caginin odagi haline gelmis durumdadir. Cocuklarin degerlerini nasil gelistirdikleri ve kararlarinin gucu de her zaman sorgulanmaktadir. Gunumuz iletisim tekniklerinin ve stratejilerinin karmasik dogasi ve toplumun cok dilli, cok kulturlu, cok kulturlu yapisi cocuklari eskiye oranla daha farkli bir sekilde gelismeye zorlamaktadir. Medyanin oldugu kadar, yerel, ulusal, kuresel degerlerin bazen bir baskasiyla celisen etkisi ile, kavramlarin nasil sekillendigini ve karar alma sureclerinin medya tarafindan cocuklukta nasil etkilendigini gormek oldukca ilginc sonuclar ortaya cikarmaktadir. Bu da degerlerin, soylemin, karar verme sureclerinin cocukluktan baslayarak nasil sekillendigi ile ilgili onemli ipuclari ortaya koymakta ve degisimlerin yonunun, dogasinin saptanmasi gerekliligini gundeme getirmektedir. Cocuklarin soylemleri, ggelecekte toplumlarin nasil yonetilecegini ve cevresel problemler ve sosyal catismalarla ilgili yeni bakis acilari getireceklerini aydinlatacaktir. Cocuklarin gelecek icin ongordukleri roller ve esitlik, guc ve guclendirme konulari hakkindaki farkindaliklarinin gelismesi, bize gelecegin dunya dinamiklerini anlama sansi verecektir. Bu calisma, cocuklugun erken yaslarindan baslayarak kimlik sorunlarinin kimligini ve yansimasini arastirmayi, guclendirme stratejileri, karar alma sureci ve cocuklarin yonetim becerilerine odaklanmayi amaclamaktadir. Gecmisi gercekten biliyor muyuz veya gelecegi gercekten onemsiyor muyuz? Neden insanlar, bir cocuk gibi en bastan yasama baslamak yerine degerlere veya anilara bagli kalmak isterler. Somut ve mutlak bir sey beklemek beynin farkli sekillerde calismasina neden olur. Cocuklari cok daha fazla onemsesek ve ihtiyac duyabilecekleri hemen hemen her seyi saglasak bile, simdiki nesil ile gecmis nesiller arasinda seylerin farkli sekillerde degerlendirilmesi nedeniyle bir bosluk olusmaktadir. Cocukluklarinda aci cekenler icin, yasamlari boyunca digerleri icin fedakarlik yapmak icin cok zor gorunuyor, cunku insanlarin cogu zaten farkliliklara ya da anlayisa, hosgoruye kapilarini kapatmis durumdalar. Bu calisma, medya perspektifini ve medyanin gelisim ve gelisim surecinde cocuklarin kimlikleri hakkinda karar alma konusunda nasil onemli bir rol oynadigini sorgulamaktadir. Bu genclerin medya ve okul beklentilerinin neler oldugunu veya medyanin bu beklentileri nasil sekillendirdigini, onlar icin hangi degerlerin degistigini ve yenilerini kimllerin verdigini arastirmaktadir. Kimliginin esnek parcalarinin neler oldugunu ve goc kaynakli bu krizi yenmek icin onu nasil kullandiklarini sorgulamaktadir. Bu calisma bir yandan erken yasta kimlik ve goc krizinden gecen Istanbul'daki 70 cocugun bireysel hikayelerine odaklanirken, bir diger yandan daha once yapilan benzer calismalarla sonuclarini karsilastirmaktadir. Calismanin kisitlamalari ve goz onunde bulundurulan etik konular nedeniyle, cocuklara hicbir zaman dogrudan sorular sorulmamis, onlara oyun benzeri durumlar sunulmasi ve bunlar uzerinde konusulmasi tercih edilmistir. Bu simulasyonlar gecmis, simdiki ve gelecekteki degerler icin yeteneklerini ve tutumlarini degerlendirmeyi amaclamaktadir. Nicel oldugu kadar nitel yaklasima da odaklanmayi amaclayan bu calisma, veri toplama teknikleri baglaminda, yuz yuze gorusmeler ve odak grup calismalarina odaklanmistir. Article visualizations: