UNIT 5 PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF TV AND INTERNET ON CHILDREN The adolescents of today are living in a highly complex socio-cultural environment in which influences and impacts have constant interplay. The spread of the mass media, combined with rapid urbanization, has been gradually blurring the distances that had earlier existed between rural and urban children…the six decades since independence have seen a flood of virtual media, responding to the profound socio-economic and cultural