Digital Age

[the_phoenix612]

Youth aged 8-18 now spend more waking time looking at monitors than not. And if you compound it by multitasking, they're exposed to 10:45 hours of media content in the 7:30 they spend looking at screens.

currently I'm posting here, watching NCIS, and translating Latin.

http://gizmodo.com/5452751/youth-of-america-spend-half-their-waking-hours-staring-at-screens
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/mh012010presentL.pdf

[ktCarl]

Youth aged 8-18 now spend more waking time looking at monitors than not. And if you compound it by multitasking, they're exposed to 10:45 hours of media content in the 7:30 they spend looking at screens.

currently I'm posting here, watching NCIS, and translating Latin.

http://gizmodo.com/5452751/youth-of-america-spend-half-their-waking-hours-staring-at-screens
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/mh012010presentL.pdf

So THAT'S what's wrong with you!!

[yankee]

i like being in the minority here. i could get used to this.

[the_phoenix612]

So THAT'S what's wrong with you!!
Y'know, my Soci prof was trying to claim that my generation has LESS interpersonal contact because of all the media we use, but I think that's crap. I've got friends, people I know closely, in 10 countries on 3 continents. I know and interact with way more people online than I ever could IRL.

[pied]

Some fascinating numbers in the second link.

8-18 year olds
Percentage that own an ipod 76%, Cell phone 66%, laptop 29%

TV still rules, 4:29/day vs. 2:31 music/audio(next nearest)

Time shifted TV only is :22 vs. :14 5/10 years ago, would have thought that to b higher.

Only 23% of the music was on the radio, and 12% on a CD.

In '99 ther5e was no data for High Speed internet, now 59% of this age group has it.

Reading has only reduced from :43 in '99/'04 to :38 in '09. Probably statistically significant, but I would have thought it would be a larger reduction.

Total media exposure by race, is nuts.



Fascinating info, thanks for posting.

[pied]

Y'know, my Soci prof was trying to claim that my generation has LESS interpersonal contact because of all the media we use, but I think that's crap. I've got friends, people I know closely, in 10 countries on 3 continents. I know and interact with way more people online than I ever could IRL.


I think there is a difference. Some good-some bad. Interpersonal skills IRL suffer. Emotion/meaning is different. Better/worse is subjective I'd say. he depth of converstaions I'd say is lower via meda, but volume may increase.

[the_phoenix612]

I think there is a difference. Some good-some bad. Interpersonal skills IRL suffer. Emotion/meaning is different. Better/worse is subjective I'd say. he depth of converstaions I'd say is lower via meda, but volume may increase.
I don't think the discussions we have on here are lower in depth than my real life conversations, typically more so. Striking is my XKCD forum posting versus the interactions I have at work, or playing soccer.

[pied]

I don't think the discussions we have on here are lower in depth than my real life conversations, typically more so. Striking is my XKCD forum posting versus the interactions I have at work, or playing soccer.

Perhaps that is different because of your perspective and what you're used to. Not good/bad, but different.

[mad_fan]

Perhaps that is different because of your perspective and what you're used to. Not good/bad, but different.

Exactly...
Just talking to a client that was in the Mediterranean for a couple of weeks...she complained about her cell phone service...
I told her she could have done like her mother probably did...write a letter...