An analysis of young people's use of and attitudes toward cell phones
Telematics and Informatics
Always connected: a longitudinal field study of mobile communication
Telematics and Informatics
Unwillingness-to-communicate and college students' motives in SMS mobile messaging
Telematics and Informatics
Disruption and recovery of computing tasks: field study, analysis, and directions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play
24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use
Computers in Human Behavior
All about me: Disclosure in online social networking profiles: The case of FACEBOOK
Computers in Human Behavior
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Digital life in the age of nonstop connection is not easy, especially not for the so-called Millennials, youngsters born after 1980. Research findings, such as the recently released comprehensive reports by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew Foundation, highlight that media are among the most powerful forces in young people's lives today. Eight- to twenty-somethings in the US spend more than 50h in front of a screen each week. That is more than a regular working week. The TV shows they watch, video games they play, songs they listen to, books they read, text messages they send and websites they visit are an enormous part of their lives, offering a constant stream of messages about families, peers, relationships, gender roles, sex, violence, food, values, clothes, and so on. Earlier claims that they associate with and through media in different ways as the older generations, and therefore are better at multi-tasking, seem not to be supported by new findings. Among American youth, there is evidence that increasing globalization within media systems has shaped a high degree of individualism in society. High individualism can lead to narcissism, which leads to a very positive and inflated view of self. This value is growing rapidly in the American culture fueled by the mass media, including the new media and social networks, and contributes to new attitudes toward sex, sexuality, and individual identity.