Globalization is powered in part by tremendous and rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), and young people are often among the first to take advantage of their introduction. Young people are capable of using ICT in diverse and novel ways. Because of that ability, as well as the proliferation of other media forms (such as television and cinema), traditional forms of socialization, such as family and school, are increasingly challenged and surpassed. Many of the daily perceptions, experiences and interactions that young people have are “virtual”, transmitted through various forms of information and entertainment technologies, the foremost of which continues to be television rather than the Internet. These technologies offer a culture of information, pleasure and relative autonomy, all of which are of particular appeal to young people. This has implications, not only for young people