Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
In-class laptop use and its effects on student learning
Computers & Education
Media multitasking and the effectiveness of combining online and radio advertising
Computers in Human Behavior
Mindful multitasking: The relationship between mindful flexibility and media multitasking
Computers in Human Behavior
Explicating multitasking with computers: Gratifications and situations
Computers in Human Behavior
Little experience with ICT: Are they really the Net Generation student-teachers?
Computers & Education
The impact of laptop-free zones on student performance and attitudes in large lectures
Computers & Education
Listening to an Educational Podcast While Walking or Jogging: Can Students Really Multitask?
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
Media multitasking performance: Role of message relevance and formatting cues in online environments
Computers in Human Behavior
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying
Computers in Human Behavior
The use of attention resources in navigation versus search
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Making sense of multitasking: Key behaviours
Computers & Education
Indonesian digital natives: ICT usage pattern study across different age groups
ICT-EurAsia'13 Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Information and Communication Technology
Media multitasking between two conversational tasks
Computers in Human Behavior
The Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale: An empirical investigation
Computers in Human Behavior
Exploring factors influencing multitasking interaction with multiple smart devices
Computers in Human Behavior
Making sense of multitasking: The role of Facebook
Computers & Education
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This study investigated whether changes in the technological/social environment in the United States over time have resulted in concomitant changes in the multitasking skills of younger generations. One thousand, three hundred and nineteen Americans from three generations were queried to determine their at-home multitasking behaviors. An anonymous online questionnaire asked respondents to indicate which everyday and technology-based tasks they choose to combine for multitasking and to indicate how difficult it is to multitask when combining the tasks. Combining tasks occurred frequently, especially while listening to music or eating. Members of the ''Net Generation'' reported more multitasking than members of ''Generation X,'' who reported more multitasking than members of the ''Baby Boomer'' generation. The choices of which tasks to combine for multitasking were highly correlated across generations, as were difficulty ratings of specific multitasking combinations. The results are consistent with a greater amount of general multitasking resources in younger generations, but similar mental limitations in the types of tasks that can be multitasked.