Abstract

The cyberspace becomes a part of adolescents everyday life in which they take a bold view on their identity development that has been regarded as one of key developmental tasks. The identity in real world is not same as that of in cyberspace, which the former is to be uniform and stable, and the latter is diverse and collective. The development of identity is not identical either. The spread of Internet culture which has changed the form of communication, human relationship, and play in new generation life affected their thoughts and behavior patterns. New generational adolescents tend to seek their own life patterns in which they try hard co assimilate themselves to collective fad. However, they maintain their own mode of expression in the limit of peer acceptance. Up to now, we have tried to understand the developmental process in real world with a rational and logical view. However, understanding on the phenomena of human development in cyberspace need ㄴ a new paradigm which is based on chaos philosophy. The new paradigm in developmental research will make us focus on finding an order embedded in complex human development processes, and the new types of human development in cyber world.