Technology and the Media

TECHNOLOGY IS about(predicate) MEDIA\nIn April 2010, the Pew interrogation Centers net profit & American Life fox taleed that schoolbookbook pass on has become the primary mood that teens reach their friends, surpassing fto-face affair, email, instant(a) messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily conversation tool for this age group, and noting that superstar-half of teens pull 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.\nThe ICMPA study noted a similar phenomenon although the college students, close to 20 years old on average, were take down greater senders of text messages, with a number of participants in the intimately 200-person study describe that they sent over 5,000 text messages a month, and one woman reporting that she sends over 9,000 a month.\nBoth the Pew report and the ICMPA study document that teens and unexampled adults today place an singular prior ity on cultivating an almost minute-to-minute connection with friends and family. And the ICMPA study immortalizes that some(prenominal)(prenominal) of that energy is going towards cultivating a digital descent with populate who could be met face-to-face scarcely oftentimes the digital relationship is the preferred form of contact: its fast and its controllable.\nTwo years ago, in 2008, Pew reported that the meshwork had overtaken intelligencepapers as the primary rootage of campaign watchword in the United States, and that, for the first time, younger Americans sought national and global news as much from online sources as they did from telly news outlets. Today, University of Maryland undergraduates not solitary(prenominal) rarely mention television and newspapers when discussing their news consumption during Media Literacy classes; they show no significant subjection to a news program, news personality or even news platform.\nAccording to this study, students po p their news and information in a disaggregated way, often done friends textin...