Interesting study on "A Day Without Media"
http://withoutmedia.wordpress.com/
I'd be curious to get a better perspective on the differences between demographics - although that might not be available from this study. This was a mostly white, upper middle class group of college students. Would the same apply for those from a less privileged background? How do those in the military from the same class/age/race compare? Is it substantially different for troops that have been deployed for long periods of time? Those who have the resources to be constantly connected come to rely upon it and shoe signs of addiction to it. What advantages are hidden within that reliance? What disadvantages? My wife and I recently watched a Frontline special (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/) dealing with largely the same topic. The portion of that special that concentrated on improving student performance in a largely black, low-income school that turned to digital media as a learning tool shows some of the good. The MIT and Stanford students who were addicted to devices and connections - and didn't recognize the limits of multitasking - show some of the bad.
I'd be curious to get a better perspective on the differences between demographics - although that might not be available from this study. This was a mostly white, upper middle class group of college students. Would the same apply for those from a less privileged background? How do those in the military from the same class/age/race compare? Is it substantially different for troops that have been deployed for long periods of time? Those who have the resources to be constantly connected come to rely upon it and shoe signs of addiction to it. What advantages are hidden within that reliance? What disadvantages? My wife and I recently watched a Frontline special (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/) dealing with largely the same topic. The portion of that special that concentrated on improving student performance in a largely black, low-income school that turned to digital media as a learning tool shows some of the good. The MIT and Stanford students who were addicted to devices and connections - and didn't recognize the limits of multitasking - show some of the bad.
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