A SURVEY ON MEDIA (SATELLITE CHANNELS, SOCIAL CHANNELS, GAMES, MOVIES, AND SO ON) EFFECTS ON ADOLESCENTS` BEHAVIOR: CHALLENGES AND TECHNIQUES

The survey is an investigation into Western media (satellite and social channels and Internet, games, movies, and so on) effects on adolescentsbehavior: challenges and techniques. The methodology is descriptive- surveying, the type of explanatory. The statistic population of the survey includes 200 boy students of Namin high schools, among whom 120 students were chosen as statistic samples according to Simple Random Sampling. Moreover, the researchers self-made questionnaire was given to them. It should be said that Western media is like a double-edged sword, so that not only it can affect various layers of life, but it can similarly cause serious harms. The results show that cultural invasion, adolescentsaggressive behavior, violence culturalization, violating human sacredness and values, popularization of wars and conflicts in order to promote aims instead of logical peace, and so on are some challenges regarding the unwanted effects of this kind of media. Regarding getting out of such challenges, some techniques can be mentioned, as follows: learning the correct usage of this kind of media to young people, related officialsendeavor in order to enrich local media contents, leading young people to Iranian-Islamic technology (which promote religious values), trying to optimize and level opposed tools such as filtering, cultural enrichment and adopting appropriate policies which help young people perceive the opportunities and threads of this kind of media, etc. so that they can make sound decisions.