Role of State: Protecting Children in Cyberspace

Abstract

With the induction of a newer mass medium, Internet, horizons of mass media expanded from mass media society to a cyberspace and this brought more challenges to the media researchers, social scientist and civil societies. In our part of the world either people have no computers or no internet or very limited number of computers and very limited number of internet users. When our children go to cyberspace for information, these information are such overloaded that they cannot easily assimilate. Government with the help of stakeholders, Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) and civil society can design strategies keeping in view the recommendations given at the end of this article to harness the effectiveness