Digital Generation: The migration from mass traditional media
towards digital media
Technology Revolution
Thomas pg. 101-105
Rischard pg. 13-15
As I was reading the assigned material something rather interesting jumped out at me. It was within a section entitled "Studying Digital Youth" in the book Deconstructing Digital Natives by Michael Thomas. "Today, there is a lot of empirical data on digital youth. One line of research is directed towards quantitative studies of use patterns and frequencies. For example, in a recent study of media use among American youth, the Kaiser Foundation used the term 'Generation M2' to describe the increasing time spent with such media by American youth, tracing developments from 1999-2009" (pg 102). The passage continues by saying that in order to better grasp the more qualitative aspects of media use, certain focus areas of media use need to be specified, such as fan fiction cultures, gaming cultures, and media production cultures. This statement just makes sense. It is understood that a large amount of people are using digital technologies more frequently but it isn't addressed as to how they are being used and why they are being used. Digital Natives are always the ones in which tests and studies are being completed concerning the amount of technology they use. They give inadequate reports that have nothing to do with the needed information and then publishing companies report this information to the general public. However, as mentioned before, it is not being publicized as to what the digital natives are doing with the technology they use. Some use it for entertainment purposes such as, gaming, blogging, and writing fan fiction but then there are other young users who use the technology they have to better their education and the knowledge they posses. So when digital natives are being analyzed and critique more needs to be asked other than the typical question of, "how much technology do you use on an average day and do you consider yourself to be tech-savvy?"
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