The dangers of children’s use of electronic games and social networking sites for digital media… A symposium at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Childhood

Based on the awareness role of the dangers of children’s use of electronic games and the need to understand the impact of electronic games on children’s growth, community participation, and skill development, the Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs Sector at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Childhood, at Ain Shams University, organized this morning an educational symposium entitled “The Dangers of Children’s Use of Electronic Games and Digital Media Social Networking Sites”.

This came under the auspices of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of Shams University, Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Prof. Howaida Al-Jabali, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Childhood, supervised and organized by Prof. Randa Kamal, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, in cooperation with Major General Hossam El-Sherbiny, Assistant Secretary for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs at Ain Shams University.

Prof. Asst. Dr. Moamen Jabr, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Children’s Culture at the Faculty gave a lecture at the symposium, in the presence of Prof. Zakaria Desouki, Head of the Department of Media and Children’s Culture at the Faculty, and an elite group of faculty staff and teaching assistants at the faculty.

Prof. Randa Kamal welcomed distinguished attendees, noting the importance of the symposium’s topic due to its effects and risks on children and adolescents, stressing the need for parents to monitor, follow up, and educate their children.

Prof. Asst. Dr. Momen Jabr began the symposium by informing the attendees of the dangers of children’s use of electronic games, which it causes health problems or problems in studying and makes them socially isolated.

He also explained the harms of children and teenagers' use of social networking sites and digital media, and the positive and negative effects of electronic games.

In conclusion, His Excellency added some societal recommendations, such as family control in light of the theory of parental mediation - self-censorship as the result of instilling religious and moral authority in our children - paying attention to all means of building a moderate, balanced, cognitively and skillfully integrated personality.